(openPR) - Conigma™ CCM version 3.5 offers significantly enhanced features and new functionalities for managing and automating the SAP change und transport processes.

Munich, April 7, 2010 - Galileo Tools GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of software solutions for SAP® change, release and transport management announces that Conigma CCM is now available in the latest version 3.5. The new version contains significant improvements in nearly all areas of documenting, controlling and automating the cost-intense IT processes for SAP release-, change- and transport management.

„Like with all earlier versions of Conigma, we have developed Conigma CCM version 3.5 in close cooperation with our clients and prospects focusing on areas of improvement, which provide the highest return for them. As IT budgets are still tight, automation as well as the elimination of sources of errors and unnecessary rework is yet highest priority for IT organizations“, said Josef Huber, General Manager at Galileo Tools GmbH. „We are convinced, that any organization running SAP and a well-defined, professional change management approach underlyed by Conigma, will experience significant cost reduction in conjunction with higher quality within a very short period of time.“

Conigma™ CCM Version 3.5
In addition to many extensions and enhancements within the graphical user interface, Conigma now provides the following new functionalities.

Management of documents
For describing bugs, the definition of new requirements, quality assurance procedures or release notes, frequently text documents, small presentations and screen shots contain important information, necessary for the IT staff working on SAP changes. With version 3.5 of Conigma such documents, which are typically related to a SAP change request, release or a bug, may be stored and managed directly in Conigma CCM without the need for an additional document management system.

Impact analysis of „overtakers“ on object level
SAP change orders are lists with R/3 objects being released, exported and needs to be imported into other SAP systems or clients. The change orders in the import queue of a SAP system are ordered strictly sequential using the release time as criteria.
Importing a change order into SAP may be done in two different ways – “final import” or “preliminary import” (“overtaker”). If a user imports a change order, which is part of the import queue without importing all predecessors, such an import should be executed as a “preliminary import”, as deviations from the export sequence will lead to a configuration, different to the source system, resulting frequently in a mixture of code and customizing, which does not work.
To solve this issue, all preliminary imports stay in the import queue and will be imported again with the following import jobs, until they can be imported “final”. Latest at the time, when all preliminary imports have been imported final, the target SAP system has reached a consistent configuration again.
In particular, if SAP customers are using a release-oriented change approach, „overtakers“ are a very common issue leading over the time to a significantly higher volume of import jobs (as the “overtakers” needs to be imported again and again). As this high volume quite often cannot be processed in the time-slot available for an import job, customers just do no re-import the „overtakers“, which may cause severe problems.
With Conigma Version 3.5, it is possible now to analyze on object level, which “overtaker” may create a collision and needs to be imported again. Executing this detailed analysis leads to a drastically reduced number of re-imports, enabling also customers with narrow time-slots for import jobs to deal with „overtakers“ in the correct way. Additionally the user may run a simulation of an import job to find out exactly, how many of the “preliminary imports” has to be imported again.

Easier Customizing
The graphical user interface of Conigma CCM has been extended by new elements, enabling customers to very easy configure and adapt the SAP change process to their specific requirements, i.e. definition of the steps of the workflow, related roles, etc. Further on the behavior of the context sensitive menu elements may now be defined using this GUI extension, for example defining allowed actions in relation to a specific status in the workflow and the role of a user.

About Galileo Tools GmbH
Galileo Tools GmbH, a subsidiary of the Galileo Group AG, is one of the leading providers of Change and Transport Management solutions for SAP®. The Conigma™ Suite integrates administration and processes for further developing, adapting and customizing SAP software seamlessly with existing IT support infrastructure, such as SAP procedures for allocating software (ABAP TMS and Java CMS). These results in significant rationalization potential based on the more efficient, automated development and change processes; in addition, IT compliance initiatives are given optimal support by means of wide-ranging workflow functionalities and the detailed recording of all procedural steps.
The clients of Galileo Tools include LSV (Landwirtschaftliche Sozialversicherung), Postbank, Siemens AG and Züricher Kantonalbank. Galileo Group AG may be found in the Internet under www.galileo-group.de.

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Contact:
Galileo Tools GmbH
Josef Huber
Perchtinger Strasse 6
81379 Munich
Tel : +49 (0)89 710463-66
Fax : +49 (0)89 710463-88
josef.huber@galileo-group.de
www.galileo-group.de