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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to highlight how SAP systems integrators and consultants use IntelliCorps LiveCompare software to better manage client SAP projects and maintenance.
From upgrades to new implementations, LiveCompare supports the whole SAP lifecycle
From upgrades to new implementations, LiveCompare supports the whole SAP lifecycle. We conducted an interview with a large SAP systems integrator who has been using LiveCompare at a client site on numerous SAP projects. What follows is an account of their day to day activity using LiveCompare. For the purpose of this document, all names and company names have been changed.
Key Facts
LiveCompare helps central teams to more efficiently and effectively service individual project teams. LiveCompare enables consultants with minimal SAP experience to work effectively on SAP projects. LiveCompare helps solutions providers generate more revenue from each client by securing projects that would otherwise be cost/time prohibitive. LiveCompare helps generate answers to key SAP questions faster, cheaper and with less risk to the business. LiveCompare enables consultants to meet and exceed client expectations.
My background is not at all in SAP. I just started working on SAP the day I started work on this project
According to the client, they can do this analysis themselves but it takes them a month What type of analysis are you or more. helping ACME Inc. with? I can do SAP data analysis in two days using LiveCompare
There are many different analyses that we run. For example, Ill explain one of the most critical analysis that I did for the security team. The challenge that ACME Inc. have is that there are product costs and local cost fields out there which need to be hidden from the end users. ACME Inc. have been doing this with a legacy system but now they want to implement the same feature in SAP. For this, they wanted to know which programs have these cost fields so we can secure those transactions and programs and make sure they wont be visible or available to the end user. This was one of the very challenging projects I worked on. Its not at all easy to figure out where these particular fields are being used and how they are being used. We need to make sure we secure anything thats tied up to those programs and T codes. So we run the field table analysis in LiveCompare.
How does this particular analysis in LiveCompare help? A colleague introduced me to LiveCompare. She explained that if you do the exact analysis manually, it might take a year, with 15 resources. I was the only one doing this analysis and it took 2 and half months to get the work done
Well, first we spoke with the product costing team to work out which fields were important. They helped us find the fields and field names that include cost information that we need to hide from end users. Based on that, we looked for each table that contains that field. Once we had a list of the table structures, dynamic structures, we looked for all programs and T-codes related to those tables. From this, we then looked at executable programs. We looked into all of this using the LiveCompare tool. We looked at the source code to make sure and identify where exactly that field has been referenced to. We were then able to secure any programs indirectly using those fields. All of this is done automatically in LiveCompare.
Is your client aware that you use LiveCompare? I am known as the LiveCompare Girl!
They actually know that this is a third party tool from IntelliCorp and it is called LiveCompare. In fact I am known at ACME Inc, not as being from GSI but as the LiveCompare Girl!
Are you able to use LiveCompare when bidding for new projects? LiveCompare helps us meet and achieve high client expectations
In fact we are already working on that. We have, I believe, two more projects coming up which we are trying to secure. We already told them that LiveCompare will give them complete visibility as to what their system looks like and what improvements need to be done. They can look at their programs and usage information, security roles and all that type of information.
What about ACME Inc, how do they feel about you using LiveCompare?
They are very very happy with the way LiveCompare spits out the results. They are really happy with the reduction in time that LiveCompare takes to get the work done. And LiveCompares ability to go into more depth. LiveCompare can validate any system where transports are applied. It can do anything we ask it to do.
Our client is very happy with how LiveCompare reduces time and effort
There were two configuration tables that SSI had forgotten to reapply correct configuration settings to. We pointed this out using LiveCompare.
My colleagues now know the ins and outs of what LiveCompare can do; the magic it can do! After the demo, I got 3 or 4 requests the same day asking me to run analysis!
So even though you are getting things done quicker with LiveCompare, your work load has actually gone up?! Now my colleagues and clients see how easily I can do things with LiveCompare, Im getting even more requests from everywhere!
My job is already very challenging with clients on my back, asking me to get work done. And now my colleagues and clients see how easily I can do things with LiveCompare, Im getting even more requests from everywhere! Its a good sign though because they realize how efficient LiveCompare is and how accurate it is. I think clients are very happy with this tool, very very happy.
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