SAP Solution: DevOps

For years, SAP PI and PO were the central integration solutions in many companies. Their era is coming to an end, however, with the shift towards the cloud, APIs, and agile IT: SAP is discontinuing further development and support is coming to an end. It is time to realign the integration strategy.

Testing applications, especially in the SAP environment, is a much greater burden on companies today than it was a few years ago. New approaches to reducing testing efforts help to introduce SAP solutions faster, more cost-effectively and with higher quality.

Shifting up a gear: If you run your own software development within your organization, you can no longer avoid DevOps. The advantages are manifold. Especially when it comes to accelerating processes.

That I implement innovations in the company is not a question. It's more a question of the timing of the implementation. The pressure on SAP teams to implement the requirements of the business units as quickly as possible is enormous.

So it can be when DevOps approaches accelerate time-to-production from months to days. Addressing this in the context of the S/4 project is seen by successful SAP customers as a natural part of the transformation.

For dissonance to become harmony, trust must develop between development and operations teams. This requires support from management as well as a firm foundation.

Today, companies have to master ever shorter release cycles, while at the same time ensuring high software quality. This requires careful testing.

S/4 Hana and Cloud: It's not a question of location, but of architecture - and culture. This changes everything and makes DevOps a must. However, its triumphal march does not begin as a grassroots movement.

To deliver new applications and releases faster, Continuous Testing will be integrated into DevOps processes.

Despite some negative reports about the pace of S/4 Hana adoption, the latest DSAG survey confirms its strategic importance for SAP users: 81 percent are already working with S/4 or planning to implement it.

The use of open source supports DevOps teams in agile software development. But in the drive to produce code faster and faster, protecting confidential and privileged credentials often falls by the wayside.

A reorganization of development and deployment processes through DevOps must also be accompanied by an organizational realignment. But how can the development approach be anchored in the corporate culture?