(January 2012)

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SAP customers are leveraging SAP Solution Manager functionality to support application lifecycle management, including change tracking, incident management, business process monitoring and implementation tools.

The first step to leveraging this functionality is to build the Business Blueprint structure to document the business scenarios, processes, master data, and organizational structure supporting the business. The Solution Documentation Assistant can be used to reverse-engineer the structure based on usage statistics. Reverse Business Process Documentation (RBPD) content is available to support an automatic, comprehensive analysis of the functional usage of SAP ERP systems.

IBIS offers Supplementary Services to support a more complete blueprint using RBE Plus. Using Supplementary Services from IBIS, a customer can accelerate, extend, and improve their Solution Documentation. Learn how to:

• Accelerate customizing the Business Blueprint with an automated inventory of custom developments
• Identify process variants and exception processes for more comprehensive documentation
• Supplement the structure with organizational usage statistics to compare org units and differentiate processes
• Understand the user base, identify power users, knowledge risk areas and critical usage statistics

(November 2011)

The 7.1 release of SAP Solution Manager introduces a strategic cooperation between SAP and IBIS to deliver an automated approach to reverse business process documentation (RBPD). With this new release, IBIS provides business content for the Solution Documentation Assistant (SDA). It supports a comprehensive analysis of the functional use of SAP ERP systems based on not only transactional processing but also SQL queries that apply an intelligent analysis of customizing, master data, and transaction data statistics to determine the Business Blueprint. The end result is high-quality content applied to reverse business-engineer the process structure for documenting projects and solutions.

Please contact us for more information and download the White Paper directly via the following link:

http://www.solutionmanagerexpert.com/article.cfm?id=6191

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(November 2011)

One of the key objectives of every SAP Implementation is improving business operations and achieving Return of Investment. Unfortunately over time many companies become more reactive then proactive when it comes to supporting their Enterprise Systems. They move from Technical Upgrade to Technical Upgrade without reevaluating and improving systems hence their Systems become less efficient and more costly to maintain.

Over time the introduction of change (markets, customers, products) necessitates the reexamination of processes to determine if they are still operating as efficiently as possible. Hidden opportunities for increasing productivity, enhancing efficiency, improving accuracy, reducing costs and avoiding risk exist in your system and can be uncovered with the proper approach . However , a manual approach to analyze and understand the opportunities available in their systems may be cost-prohibitive. Many companies simply don't have the time and resources particularly when weighed against their business-driven initiatives. An RBE Plus Analysis performs the analysis for you and combines that analysis with an evaluation of KPIs and metrics to highlight exactly where the opportunity for improvements and cost saving measures exist in your system.

Please contact us for more information and download the White Paper directly via the following link:

http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1320352667_345.html

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(October 2011)

Companies who automate their business processes using an SAP-centric suite of products are taking a serious look at leveraging SAP Solution Manager functionality to support their IT strategy.

The 7.1 release of SAP Solution Manager introduces a strategic cooperation between SAP AG and IBIS to deliver an automated approach to Reverse Business Process Documentation (RBPD).  The IBIS Add-On Services for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 will be detailed in this white paper, and include the following:

• RBPD for SAP Solution Manager
• RBE Plus Potential Analysis for Business Process Improvements
• RBE Plus Comparison Analysis
• RBE Plus User and Role Analysis

Please contact us for more information and download the White Paper directly via the following link:

http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1318263616_378.html

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(August 2011)

The challenge to managing SAP systems lies in understanding what you are tasked with managing. The RBE Plus toolset is designed to unveil the complexity. RBE Plus automates an intensive investigation of the usage of your SAP systems to empower your resources with the knowledge of the organizational units, master data, business processes, transactions and configuration that need managing. Whether you are planning an upgrade, consolidating systems, optimizing business scenarios, standardizing processes, documenting existing usage, looking to retire customized solutions and opt for SAP standard offerings or trying to gain a better understanding of how your business users are engaged with the system, RBE Plus streamlines the effort. RBE Plus offers a comprehensive and scalable approach to analyze existing SAP systems with an efficient and automated method that results in tremendous savings of time and resources.

Contact us or download the White Paper directly via

http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1313003541_746.html

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(May 2011)

The 7.1 release of SAP Solution Manager introduces a strategic cooperation between SAP and IBIS to deliver an automated approach to reverse business process documentation (RBPD). With this new release, IBIS provides business content for the Solution Documentation Assistant (SDA). It supports a comprehensive analysis of the functional use of SAP ERP systems based on not only transactional processing but also SQL queries that apply an intelligent analysis of customizing, master data, and transaction data statistics to determine the Business Blueprint. The end result is high-quality content applied to reverse business-engineer the process structure for documenting projects and solutions.

Please contact us for more information and download the White Paper directly via the following link:

http://www.solutionmanagerexpert.com/article.cfm?id=5860

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(December, 2006)

RBE Plus for SAP Solution Manager supports the automatic evaluation of business processes in the SAP Solution Manager. RBE Plus technology makes it possible to determine the business processes actively used within productive SAP systems. The business processes available in the SAP Solution Manager's Business Process Re-pository (BPR) are automatically activated or deactivated on the basis of this data. This procedure significantly expedites implementation and upgrade projects invol-ving the SAP Solution Manager.

This article has been published in "E-3-Magazin", issue 12/2006, (December 2006),  more...

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LIVE AUDIT at German air traffic control

(June, 2005)

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH has upgraded its SAP systems to SAP R/3 4.7. Before doing so, it made an inventory of the previous release to ensure there would be no unpleasant surprises during the upgrade.

This article has been published in SAP INFO # 128, (June 2005),  more...

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Managing performance under continuous business process engineering

(June, 2005)

Rainer Thome and Andreas Hufgard detail how business measurement concepts should be implemented for the continuous improvement of business processes.

This article has been published in SAP INFO # 128, (June 2005),  more...

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Continuous business improvement with Reverse Business Engineering

(November, 2003)

In order to continually optimize SAP systems, some key maintenance questions must be answered:

What is the most efficient way to carry out maintenance analyses?
What are the ideal maintenance cycles for SAP installations?

The Reverse Business Engineering (RBE) tool has the answers.

This article has been published in SAP INFO # 111, (November 2003),  more...