Galileo Group announces new release of Conigma

New release 3.20 of Conigma™ CCM, available for customers in April 2008, delivers powerful new features for audit-proof archiving, integration of test management and automatic deployment of complete releases on complex SAP system landscapes

Munich, January 11, 2008 - The Galileo Group AG, a leading provider of software solutions for the Change and Transport management for SAP®, today announces the next Conigma™ CCM Release 3.20, available for customers in April 2008. The main new functionalities of this release contain an audit-proof archiving of all audit-relevant information generated through the SAP Change process, which will be stored in the SAP archive leveraging the SAP ArchiveLink interface. Additionally, the SAP test tools (ECATT or CATT) are integrated into the change process allowing automation of the test process as well as starting the next workflow steps depending on the test results. Another highlight of release 3.2 is the possibility to completely automate the transport of releases, containing often several hundreds of change requests, to a complex highly interconnected SAP landscape.

The Conigma Suite enables companies to define homogeneous, highly auto-mated and efficient IT processes - which may be freely defined - for change, release and transport management for SAP – working across several SAP lines as well as covering heterogeneous customizing technologies (configurations, ABAP, JAVA, XI), and to apply these processes both in the company itself and in collaboration with development and consulting partners.

SAP ArchiveLink Integration
The integration of Conigma with SAP ArchiveLink enables the customers to audit-proof archive their SAP change requests und release data including all related and relevant metadata, i.e. the used workflow, approvals, test results, and protocols. This is a crucial feature to fulfill the compliance requirements, mandatory for GoBS, Sarbanes-Oxley, KonTraG, Basel lI regulations, as well as FDA, ESHA and others.

Integration of test management
The new Conigma release contains a powerful integration for the SAP test tools (ECATT or CATT). This integration allow for automatically starting the test process, using the pre-defined test data, as well as receiving and evaluating the test results. Based on the test results, the status as well as the next workflow steps may be triggered, i.e. receiving a negative test result would result in redi-recting a change request to the developer and send a notification to other rele-vant people, whilst with a positive test result the change request is automatically approved for transport.

Deployment of releases
In particular in large organizations with complex SAP landscapes, i,e. several SAP lines, closely linked to each other, it is nearly impossible to manually organize the transport of new releases containing hundreds or thousands of SAP transport objects free of errors and efficiently. Now Conigma, triggered by meta data, i.e. a going-live date for a release, is able to transport a complete release fully automatic to any SAP instances within a SAP landscape by assembling the different import queues and starting the transport process. Typically the import queues are processed in parallel, but it is also possible to serialize the imports based on conditions.

„The new version of Conigma CCM will significantly increase our technological advantage in the market. Influenced and driven by our key customers, we have focused on functionalities to deliver compliance out-of-the-box and more process automation and efficiency capabilities. We have received very promising feedback for this new functionality, not only from large SAP customers, but also from system integrators and SAP-hosting companies. Conigma CCM Re-lease 3.2 now allows to reduce the cost of the SAP Change process even more as additional process steps may be automated and sources for mistakes are eliminated“, said Josef Huber, Vice President Sales and Marketing of Galileo Group AG.

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

About the Galileo Group
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). This 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 Group include LSV (Landwirtschaftliche Sozial-versicherung), Postbank, Siemens AG and Züricher Kantonalbank. Galileo Group AG may be found on the Internet under http://www.galileo-group.de.
Conigma is a trade mark of the Galileo Group AG.

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