For several years now, SAP has been supporting the development of customer objects with its ABAP Development Workbench and NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI). Another professional tool, the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG), helps administrators configure their system (customizing) by allowing them to make all the necessary settings.

Every single change to the system is captured in transport requests. Companies can use the SAP Transport Management System (TMS) to forward these transport requests to the test and production systems – the introduction of the extended Change and Transport System (CTS+) has also made it possible to include non-ABAP SAP applications.

When asked about their biggest concerns regarding the stability of their production systems, many SAP customers place the import of transport requests at the top of their list. These are the most common sources of errors during imports:

• incomplete transport requests
• incorrect import sequences
• wrong time of import
• poor synchronization of imports in different SAP applications
• non-authorized import of transport requests
• ABAP code that includes inefficient programming logic or vulnerabilities
  

 

This is where theGuard! TransportManager comes in with its:

• package approach
• integrated checks for overtakers
• clearly defined workflow concept
• definition of import periods
• option to define relationships between requests from different SAP applications

The Application Security & Code Profiling module of theGuard! SmartChange will check your ABAP code for weaknesses and vulnerabilities, preventing inefficient and insecure transports from being imported into the system.

If structural changes to a table are transported that result in the repositioning of this table in the database system, the affected table could possibly be blocked for several hours – depending on the number of its data sets. This could bring important business processes to a halt.
To assess the risk posed by a transport request, it is also important to know which dependent objects in the target system are potentially in danger of being compromised by an import. If it affects nothing more than a report that is scheduled at monthly intervals, there will usually be enough time to troubleshoot problems should they arise. If, however, a transaction is affected that is run by the warehouse staff some 600 times an hour, an interruption would bring the inbound or outbound delivery to a complete standstill.

theGuard! TransportManager lets users define individual or generic objects that will then be regarded as critical. The next step is to assign authorizations to control who has permission to approve critical contents.

SAP Basis teams are faced with an ever-growing number of audit trail requirements. They need to able to provide access to all relevant information on changes to production systems at any time. Naturally, this also requires them to document and log exceptions such as emergency transports.
This is another field where theGuard! TransportManager has an excellent track record. With more than 180 projects completed, REALTECH has the experience needed to implement a host of standard processes and reporting features and to create custom workflows and documentation. theGuard! TransportManager complies with applicable standards such as SOX, FDA, and the German Banking Act, thus satisfying the requirements of internal and external audits.

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Brochure theGuard! TransportManager (pdf, 290 kB)