In this course, you will learn about E2E Change Control Management. You will discover how the SAP Solution Manager can be leveraged as an application management platform for E2E Change Control.

This course is based on software release SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP12.

1. Introduction to E2E Change Control Management

2. Change and Transport System

• the best practices for the setup and usage of CTS and CTS+ in different scenarios

3. Reporting and Analysis Tools / CTS Analytics

• Report on current system configuration items
• Configure and run configuration validation reports to compare multiple systems
• Learn how to use the transport execution analysis self service in SAP Solution Manager

4. Software Change Strategies

• SAP best practices for transport landscape topologies and release management

5. Transport Management with SAP Solution Manager

6. Use the SAP Solution Manager for Transport Management

• Understand cross system object locking and downgrade protection
• Use retrofit in a dual landscape
• Understand the key features of central CTS

7. Quality Gate Management (QGM)

• Administration and grouping of transport requests
• Setup of quality gate management
• project phases in quality gate management
• Usage of quality gate management as a central transport management tool

8. Change Request Management

• Understand the different use cases for change request management tool based workflow for the execution of change requests from development to production
• Understand, how to work with change request management