An Introduction to REV TRAC Tool

-Transport Management made easy

 INDEX
1. Transport Request Management 20 Min

2. Introduction to the Tool Rev Trac 30 Min

3. Rev Trac Capabilities & Process - 30 Min

4. Product DEMO featuring capabilities 40 Min

5. FAQs on the Tool 30 min

6. Case Studies from the real world 30 min

Transport Request Management in SAP

Predominantly, in most of the SAP AD and AM landscapes the transport

management is responsibility of all the stake holders in the project/program.

Be it functional/ABAP technical/Basis consultant it is the responsibility of

every individual to keep a track of the changes done to the system either in
the form or customizing or workbench requests.

But in Majority of the projects this process is followed manually either,

depending on the excel sheets or through solution manager which cannot
avoid manual intervention of pooling the transports.

But as we allow manual intervention in the request management many errors

can occur and which can prove very costly for the management,

Specifically, in a multiple release scenarios where the production system is

hit with changes every week from different stake holders of a project team/
maintenance teams etc
Main Challenges faced are as below

1. Duplication of Changes.

2. Version Management.

3. Mutually conflictive changes

4. Lack of Documentation of changes

5. Changes getting Overwritten

6. Changes causing regressions in the production system.

7. Missing Request Numbers during system maintenance

8. Allowing manual changes in the requests.

9. Wrong descriptions/Ticket/Change Request numbers.

10. Invalid Changes in the objects.

11. Changes against Audit Rules

12. Unable to identify the technical object in subject.

Introduction to Rev Trac Tool
Rev-Trac is SAP based change control application (Created by Revelation
Software Concepts)

Revelation Software Concepts (RSC) have been developing and supporting

SAP change control and change management software .

Rev-Trac is a SAP Bolt on tool useful to transport the R/3 objects from one

environment to another environment in case of multiple system landscapes.

Rev-Trac holds the various transport requests under which the objects are
collected.

Rev-Trac helps in transporting the entire bunch of transport request in a

predefined sequence with enough control on Dependencies among the
transports.

Easy to use technology that provides full control and visibility over
landscape changes.

Fully automated approval workflow, electronic signature collection, process

enforcement and transport migration.

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Automates many error-prone human processes, including migration of

changes
across landscapes.

Supports transport sequencing, advanced conflict management and

object/configuration overtake and overwrite protection (OOPS) for total
system safety assurance.

Rev-Trac users have a transparent view of the whole development effort.

Intended Users and approvers are presented with the approval links to
approve
or reject the change requests.

Helps in maintaining the data consistency .Maintains Consistency by OOPS

methodology (Overtake and Overwrite Proactively)

Uniform SAP Landscape changes, and triggers communication with every

change step to the request owners.
Rev Trac Tool Capabilities
SIMPLE ARCHITECTURE
Certified ABAP add-on residing within existing SAP systems

Certifications for SAP R/3 4.6, SAP NetWeaver 6.40 and SAP Netweaver 7.0

Runs on SAP versions from 4.6C onwards

Solution Manager compatible

Data resides within in its own SAP table namespace

The one Rev-Trac master system can be used to control all SAP SIDS across all SAP landscapes (e.g. ECC,
BI, APO, CRM, Portal and so on)

Rev-Trac screens are accessible via SAP GUI, ITS GUI and iView (also Browser with the RT-xDeploy or RT-xPack
add-on installed)

FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION

Completely configurable Change Request header fields and forms

Comprehensive change approval process configuration based on status steps, approvals required, approvers and
so on (enforceable)

Document attachment and/or document reference capabilities (enforceable)

Entirely configurable approval workflow and email alerts

Easily extendable across as many SAP landscapes as required

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AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE

Full enforcement of the use of Rev-Trac

Enforced following of predetermined processes

Every transport is change controlled, every user follows the correct change control processes and every signature
is received

Enforces ITIL, SOX, FDA CFR Part 11 and similar regulatory required processes

Enforces segregation of duties

TRANSPORT REQUEST MANAGEMENT

The addition and deployment of transports (via Rev-Trac Change Request) from any source system to any target
system

Includes transport bundling for rapid deployment of release transports in time pressured go live situations
Sensitive Object function can define which objects can be attached to which Rev-Trac requests to ensure
predetermined special change control processes are enforced

Manages transport dependencies both within applications and across applications from the one Rev-Trac Change
Request (or dependent Rev-Trac Change Requests) ensuring synchronization of dependent changes

Tightly controls (as far as required) the creation of transports, releasing and import of transports and creation of
Rev-Trac Change Requests
Rev Trac Tool Capabilities
IN BUILT SAFETY
Provides extended locking features and prevents inadvertent parallel development of objects or table changes
Automates transport sequencing in reiterative development situations

Pre-emptively warns when unsafe transport migrations are about to occur due to out of sequence migrations
Overtake and Overwrite Protection System (OOPS) prevents overtaking and overwriting situations before they
happen

ENHANCED VISIBILITY

Full transport monitoring and reporting

Full visibility into the location of every SAP transport in every system and client

Chronological reporting of transport movements, comparison reporting and plan vs. actual reporting

Powerful search and reporting capabilities of all Rev-Trac change control data

Additional Capabilities
Browser access to Rev-Trac screens to view, create and utilize Rev-Trac requests

OOPS for non ABAP packages, Remote approvals via email, Extensive, fully interactive easy-to-develop change
control reporting, In process, on demand impact analysis.

HP Quality Center integration

Integration into third party help desk or service desk solutions

Rev Trac Tool Process Introduction
Creation of Rev-Trac Request and Reports used in Rev Trac
Transaction Code : /RSC/RT
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The RevTrac work bench has the following details as shown below

Transaction code:/RSC/RTWB
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Status of the Revtrac Request

In the below the RT shows the status of Complete , which means the Transports have been
migrated to Production and they are verified
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RevTrac Work bench provides us with few more options

Migration Log
Change Log
OOPS Check

Transaction Code : /RSC/RT01

The log of the migration and the return codes can be verified in this tab.
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Change Log

When and by whom the change request was created/changed.

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OOPS Check

OOPS is Overtake and Overwrite Protection Systems.

Managing concurrent changes, a key challenge is to ensure that moving production support
changes into the project streams should not remove manually applied changes in the
project streams.

In order to identify and reconcile any conflicts, some organizations rekey productions
support changes manually in the project stream. This rekeying is so costly and liable to
human errors.

Overwrite and overtake Production Systems reports this issue both for configuration data
and workbench objects. When this is safe, it allows production support changes to be
migrated directly to the project stream and removes the need for re-entry of changes
manually.
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New RT Request

New RT request can be created using the RT Workbench .

Tcode : /rsc/rt01

The new RT request contains the project details and the environment on which the
development is planned and the path of the transport migrations.

Special Instructions to the migration team can also be provided in the reference Tab
which the migration team can use while moving the transports across various
environments.

Tcode : /rsc/rt01

Attachments can be created as below in the REV Track tool.

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Reports in Rev Trac

TCode : /RSC/RM18
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Conclusion

Helps in managing the Approvals and migration changes in a complex landscape in a

consistent manner .

Manages the sequence of transports and provides with audit trail of all system changes.
Product Demo - 40 min

Below is the link to log into the Demo cycles on REV Track tool.

http://www.xrsc.com/product-demonstrations-view.html
FAQ 20 min
Below is the link for FAQs.

http://www.xrsc.com/faq.html#q2
Case Studies 30 min

If you want to refer to other case studies pls refer to link http: //www.xrsc.com/case-studies.html
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