Knowledge Sharing -Tools ( SAP and Third Party Tools approved by SAP)

[Former Member]

Dear All,

I am compiling information on Tools ( SAP and Third Party Tools approved by SAP) which are widely used in any SAP Project ( Implementaion, Roll-out, Support, Maintenance, Upgrade etc) .

Tools will be categorized on the basis of following parameters:

a) Tools Provided by SAP

b) Third Party Tools approved by SAP

In both a) and b) we can have following categories:

1) Project Tracker Tools-Remedy

2) Module specific Tools-Tools used for SD, FI, MM, BW etc.

3) Reporting Tools

4) Tools from SAP

5) Data migration related Tools ( Extraction, uploading, downloading)

6) Generic Scenario tools ( Tools for Effort Estimation etc.)

7) Performance Enhancement and Optimization Tools

Request you all to please contribute and share your knowledge and experiences (theoretical and practical).

Regards,

Rakesh

[former_member183879]

Hi Rakesh,

I can add littlebit whatever I know!

During the Initial phases for Business process modelling and creating the Business Blueprints, MS-Visio is universally used. I recently read in one of the links where itis mentioned that in SAP-Netweaver stack, there is a Business process modelling tool called "Guided Procedures" You can browse littlebit on this. This tool is follows the Universally accepted BPMN(Business process Modelling Notations) and is much more advanced than normal MS-Visio.

During testing, there are lot of testing tools like Winrunner, Loadrunner, QTP. There was also an exploratory study on QTP in the project I worked for Automobile company!! You may contact Nitin Agarwal who can guide you littlebit on this.

As you know already, for user training, RWD Infopak which is a recommended application in ASAP methodology for creating user training documents is used. This is very friendly and easy to use tool.

Also for data migration, tools impregnated in SAP like LSMW(which is a plugin in SAP and comes free of cost to all clients) is much used.

Also Solution Manager offers lot of testing, training and project management functionalities built-in.

Will try to add something if I hear more on this.

Hope you are rocking there