SAP SYSTEM COPY AUTOMATION BY REDWOOD

Best Practice System Copy Automation on a Proven Platform

There are many reasons to make a copy of your critical
production SAP systems, such as testing SAP upgrades,
verifying new customization, refreshing test environments,
and replication for disaster recovery. Whatever the reason,
SAP system copies are critical for your enterprise. But the
process often takes several days and requires a great deal of
manual intervention. It can slow down testing, development
and production system performance.
Because you rely on the flawless operation of SAP to run
your business, you cant afford that kind of impact on your
enterprise or on the people who manage it. Automating
the process is the answer but to get maximum benefit from

a system copy automation solution, it must meet several

criteria:
It must be fast, reliable and secure.
It must work seamlessly with your SAP implementation.
It must provide true end-to-end automation.
Redwood Software developed SAP System Copy
Automation to meetand exceedthese requirements.
It uses the same technology behind SAPs own enterprisewide process automation solution, SAP Business Process
Automation. System Copy Automation ensures reliability
and accuracy while it accelerates the implementation of
copied environments.

Features

Benefits

Automate the SAP system copy process

end to end, including pre- and post-copy
tasks.

Improve copy process, speed, integrity and

reliability.

Automatically implement the SAP Best

Practices for System Copy.

Significantly reduce management overhead,

errors and inconsistencies.

Guarantee the accuracy and speed of

your system copy with Redwoods solid
automation platform.

Save export/import processes as templates

that can be replicated quickly and easily.
Continually monitor systems to detect and
correct storage threshold breaches.

Ensure smooth data transfer and eliminate

service calls for out of space conditions.

Advantages

Integrated End-to-End Automation

System Copy Automation by Redwood saves
companies as much as 90% in time and overhead.
It automatically monitors resource use through
the platforms intelligent queue management. That way SAP
administration staff can focus on growth and improvement rather
than simply making sure the system copy takes place.

Other system copy tools can only automate the copy phase and
cant run the entire process. This simply isnt enough to provide fast,
reliable target systems deployment. SAP System Copy Automation
by Redwood provides the detailed content and granular task
automation capabilities required to reliably automate the entire
process.

The solution automates any system copy task that doesnt involve
human interaction. Pre-export checks; the export process; moving
exported data to the import location; the import process; the postimport processes; post-copy target system validation; and, license
implementationsit handles all of these processes effectively. For
maximum time savings, these steps can also be linked together from
end-to-end, so the completion of one step triggers the start of the
next.

SAP System Copy Automation automates more than 30 regular tasks

such as exporting table content, taking snapshots of released jobs,
stopping SAP systems and underlying databases, restoring from
backups, and verifying restores down to a granular level. The selfcontained solution is based firmly on Redwoods proven automation
capabilities, requires no third-party hardware or software to
enable any part of the process, and integrates with any existing
infrastructureSAP or otherwise.

Reusable Export/Import Templates

Performing multiple export and import processes
usually requires setting up multiple chains
of related tasks for each. This adds significant
management overhead and dramatically increases
the likelihood of errors and inconsistencies. Redwoods SAP System
Copy Automation enables you to set up an export process once,
and then save the process as a template that can be replicated
quickly and easily.

You can also build import templates, making 1-n cloning to multiple
target systems simple and efficient. With these capabilities, you can
easily incorporate system copy into your regular SAP automation
and maintenance schedule, shortening the refresh cycle and
ensuring that test and development systems are kept up to date
without disruptions or extra work.

Monitor the Wider Environment

Successful system copy automation and
completion ultimately depends on more than just
task execution, too. The underlying infrastructure
must also be healthy. You need to know if the
target system disk pack is running out of space before you start the
data copy. Redwoods SAP System Copy Automation gives you a
centralized system monitoring capability that detects when storage
thresholds are breached and adds more space to the storage subsystem automatically, ensuring smooth data transfer and eliminating
out-of-space service calls.

SAP System Copy Automation continually monitors log files to

detect any errors and take corrective action immediately. Once
target systems are populated and ready for use, youll want to
run multiple validation jobs to ensure successful execution of the
SAPinst phase together with the data and system parameter import.
With SAP System Copy Automation by Redwood, you can run these
tests repeatedly, automatically; secure in the knowledge that they
will be consistent and dependable.

CONTACT US TODAY TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR SYSTEM COPY CAN BE FASTER, BETTER AND AUTOMATEDWITH REDWOOD.

About Redwood Software:

Redwood is the world leader of Enterprise Process Automation. Over the last 20 years we have helped more than 3,000 customers automate their mission-critical IT and business
processes. Our customers remove the costs, risks and wasted time of manual tasks and achieve greater reliability, consistency and accuracy across diverse processes, such as the
financial close, supply chain and business intelligence (BI). We have the ability to connect applications from any vendor or source, and we are the only strategic process automaton
partner for SAP. With the industrys widest range of deployment options we offer software, cloud or appliance. Our Automation Process Packages (APPs) help customers achieve
success in the shortest possible time and with minimum effort.

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