Rev-Trac

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Deliver SAP changes with reduced risk and a lower SAP system operational TCO, with Rev-Trac SAP change control technology
Automate and enforce change control processes and tasks to deliver changes into SAP solutions safely, flexibly and efficiently even in the most extensive and dynamic business environments.
SAP ERP systems change constantly, especially in large organizations with extensive information processing needs and dynamic business models. To keep information flowing as systems change, a powerful, flexible and fully featured change control technology, that helps change teams respond nimbly to business needs and changing regulatory mandates, is critical to operational success.

Key benefits
Rev-Trac is a mature and fully featured SAP change control technology that has evolved in response to customer needs since 1997 and allows you to: Save administration overhead with out-ofthe-box configuration flexibility Enforce process compliance to SarbanesOxley, Basel II, SAS 70 or ITIL standards and shrink change control audit effort by more than 90% Prevent inadvertent parallel development and block potentially damaging migrations (overtakes and overwrites) before they occur, to stop 99.9% of avoidable transport error incidents Cut the time needed to address business requirements from weeks to just days and improve project delivery times by 35% Dramatically reduce the effort needed to synchronize or update systems or clients Significantly simplify the management of N and N+1 landscape environments safely

Rev-Trac operation
Compatible with all SAP systems from SAP 4.6C onwards, and SAP Certified as an ABAP add-on for SAP 4.6C, SAP 4.7, Netweaver 7 and Netweaver 7.10, Rev-Trac provides: Powerful, easy to use technology that gives change teams full control and visibility over SAP landscapes and easily takes landscape system additions and reductions into account Out-of-the-box configurability, ready for you to design, implement and enforce your own change control processes from day one Easy to use 5 system and N and N+1 complex system landscape transport management and automated retrofit features to significantly reduce manual effort and decrease collision risks Fully automated transport sequencing, advanced conflict management and object/configuration overtake and overwrite protection (OOPS) for total system safety and quality assurance Automated deployment of ABAP Java and other , non-ABAP changes with or without CTS+, for easy cross application transport unification and complete change and transport quality Enforced separation of duties and other ITIL and Sarbanes Oxley process requirements Fully automated approval workflows, electronic signature collection, process enforcement and transport migration for lowest cost per change

Low cost of ownership high ROI

With a fast install time, easy learning curve and low administration overhead combined with substantial automation, Rev-Trac provides an easily demonstrable return on investment. Because Rev-Trac lives inside the SAP environment as a Certified ABAP add-on, it easily scales as projects come and go and insource/outsource strategies change over time. Most sites install Rev-Trac, load system histories and begin full system monitoring in a day and have configured even the most complex and detailed processes within several weeks. End user training time is typically one to two hours in the classroom, or 30 minutes of one-on-one and administrators are trained to fully configure Rev-Trac within several days of one-on-one training.

Technical specifics
SAP Certified as an ABAP add-on for NetWeaver 7.10 Fully integrates with CTS/CTS+ deploying ABAP, non-ABAP and mixed transports Employs the standard SAP security model, with SAP passwords, authorizations and profiles Provides complete flexibility in the definition of approval processes, organizational models and deployment paths. Allows the creation of rules specifying what information must be associated with change requests at different points in their lifecycle Provides fully flexible migration scheduling, and automatically promotes change requests through their lifecycle after successful auto-migration Automatically notifies users via email when work is ready for approval, has reached a certain stage, or when a migration failure requires investigation Extends the SAP locking concept to reduce the risk of inadvertent parallel developments within a single system, or across multiple systems Simplifies N and N+1 landscape retrofit requirements with inbuilt features Ensures quality management of concurrent, simultaneous changes across multiple landscapes Automatically detects potential transport and version sequencing errors for both configuration and workbench objects before migration Integrates bi-directionally with third-party Service Operations tools to further increase IT Service Operations automation

Rev-Tracs place in the change control picture

Rev-Trac is installed in all systems within the SAP landscape and manages all changes introduced into the landscape. Although well suited to track and enforce higher level change processes as managed by an organizations service desk, change management or help desk solution, Rev-Trac does not replace them.

Integrate with existing service desk solutions for maximized automation

Rev-Trac can be extended through bi-directional integration with a wide range of service desk, change management and help desk solutions, and testing, defect and requirements management tools, for maximized automation of SAP change control activities.

System requirements
Rev-Trac 6 is compatible with all SAP solution-based systems from SAP 4.6C onwards.

Ask for a product demonstration of Rev-Trac today. Revelation Software Concepts 8 / 1020 Doncaster Road Doncaster East, Victoria 3109 Australia Telephone: +61 3 9955 9700 Facsimile: +61 3 9955 9777 Email: info@xrsc.com Web: www.xrsc.com

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