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introducing

SOFTXSYSTEMS Inc.

....leveraging technology solutions

Change Manager

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SAP change control is an essential component of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley section 404.

Under this legislation, SAP managers of public companies are responsible for establishing internal controls to ensure the integrity of their SAP systems.

In establishing your commitment to compliance, does your business:

Have documented interaction with business stakeholders on SAP change?

Have an SAP change audit trail that is clear, concise, reportable and accessible?

Have an SAP change audit trail that is secure and unchangeable?

If your business relies on spreadsheets, e-mails, Notes, or Word documents this maybe sending the wrong message to your auditors.

Change Manager enables control and accountability in an SAP change Management process to give you the confidence and tools to stand to meet today’s compliance needs.

Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

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Components of GRC

GRC Demand trend

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SAP Strategy & Direction

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Saves up to 70% of time for

transport administration in SAP

Transfer ownership of Change to business

No release of SAP transport requests

needed anymore

Manage & Control Multiple Transport paths

Protection of objects until final release

Security against SAP upgrades

Change Manager : Benefits

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Change Manager Enforces Development

Best Practices

• Enforce sign-off pre-requisites prior to Transport – for Testing, Documentation, Other Procedures

• Cross-change dependencies eliminated as all are resolved within a work-package

• The importance of the sequence of transports is minimized – as work-packages are self contained

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SAP

CHANGE MANAGERApprovals

CHANGEMANAGER

Tracking

CHANGEMANAGERReporting

Compliance

RiskGovernance

CHANGE MANAGERGRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance)

for SAP Products

•Enforce Development Discipline

•Improve Visibility

•Audit Trail and Reporting

•Alignment with Business & IT

•Manage & Control Multiple Paths to Production

•Provide accountability for Changes & Approvals

• Tracks and Identifies Status of ALL Changes

•Has the SAP Look & Feel •100% written in ABAP

• Compatible with all SAP Products

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Sign -offs

Customising master

Abap development

Unit testing

Ready for unit test

Transport complete

Transport complete

Q/A testing

Data -load testing

Ready for Q/A

Production

User Acceptance Test

Q/A testing okay

UAT okay

Transport for UAT done

Blocked against reset

Implemented in Prod.

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Softxsystems Inc. Advanced Synchronization System in Multi Stream Environment

DV1 QA1 PD1

DV2 QA2

Transport Plan (Production Support)

Transport Plan (Projects)

WP1

WP2

Execute Cross-Instance Object Conflict

Utility

Determine Collisions

CONFLICT RESOLUTION STEPA SYNCHRONIZED

LANDSCAPE

SEM

APO

CRM

ECC

BI 7.0

SRM

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The Changing SAP Landscape

DEV QA PRD

ECC

APOSEMCRM

SAP BW

Projects

Support

Sand-box

Training

BUSINESS

•Cost, •Turnaround

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES

DEVELOPMENT

•Resource

•Integration

•Maintenance

SUPPORT•Resource

•Performance

•Integration

•Maintenance

BASIS•Resource

•Performance

•Integration

•Maintenance

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The Workpackage Concept

SALES

FINANCE

LOGISTICS

SUPPORTPROD. SUPPORT

ENHANCEMENTS

PROJECTS

SINGLE BUSINESS UNITS OF WORK (BUW)

TRANSLATES TO ONE OR MANY CHANGE REQUESTSTRANSLATES TO ONE OR MANY CHANGE REQUESTS

TRANSLATES TO A SINGLE WORKPACKAGE

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Corporate Policy Setup Implement Change Control ProceduresPromote a disciplined approach to developmentIntegrate business for accountability and ownership

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Exit points and sample exit programs Transport monitor Extensive authority checking Post DB-copy adjustments CSV validated by Novartis Consumer Health and Abbott

SOX-404 compliant

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Future Direction

• Enhance non-SAP Change Management

• Integrate into Testing Tools, Quality Center from HP

• Integrate into Ticketing Applications e.g. Remedy

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Customer References

• Phillips Electronics was the pioneer test bed for Change Manager.

• Abbott Laboratories uses Change Manager to support their Pan-European SAP implementation.

• Novartis Pharmaceuticals uses Change Manager across all their system landscapes, which includes a worldwide SAP implementation