TechValidate Research on Rev-Trac

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317 Customers Surveyed

2,746 Data Points Collected

199 Published TechFacts

37 Published Charts

20 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Rev-Trac Customer Fact

Change Control that’s simple, transparent, agile, enforceable, traceable — and friendly too!

5/5 Stars

Would you recommend Rev-Trac?

Rev-Trac makes transport management quick and easy and its workflow (approval processes) and transport migration paths are quick and simple to configure. We have accurate records of every approval for auditing purposes and can prove that only the correct approvers can perform approvals to move to production.

Rev-Trac Customer Review

Can software transform IT culture as well as IT process? Yes, it can.

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Rev-Trac:

Would you recommend Rev-Trac?

Rev-Trac changed not only our daily job but also all people working with SAP in our company. Nobody can even imagine going back to the old way. The SAP transport based doesn’t make sense.

Rev-Trac Customer Research

EMEA customers choose on-premise deployment for S/4HANA

How are you considering deploying S/4HANA:

On-premise
50%
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
14%
SAP Private Cloud - single-tenant
9%
Azure
5%
AWS
0%
SAP Public - multi-tenant
0%
Other
23%

Rev-Trac Case Study

Rev-Trac ends Fromageries Bel’s production blues

Introduction

This case study of Fromageries Bel is based on a March 2017 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

Fromageries Bel is a recognized world leader in the branded cheeses sector, with nearly 13,000 employees and 30 global subsidiaries. Its cheeses are prepared at 28 production sites and distributed in almost 130 countries.

The company has ambitious plans aiming to double in size by 2025. To help realize its aggressive goals, Fromageries Bel needed to address several challenges within its SAP landscape. On the agenda was the development of a formal release management strategy to deliver projects with greater success to the business faster, and with fewer go-live errors. Fundamentally, the cheesemaker wanted to automate recurring processes, establishing tighter controls and allowing their teams and consultants to work on higher-value tasks.

Use Case

SAP environment transformed
Fromageries Bel reviewed available technologies that would help its IT team to manage their SAP change control processes. After much consideration, Rev-Trac – the SAP DevOps platform – was selected ahead of SAP Solution Manager ChaRM. With the formal decision made, Rev-Trac was deployed and productive in one to three months.

Initially, Fromageries Bel had specific goals in mind for the automation project. Aside from implementing a release management strategy across its SAP environment, the cheesemaker wanted to improve its production stability and simplify the SAP change control process. It was also a priority to achieve its SAP agile and DevOps initiatives.

Results

“Rev-Trac changed not only our daily job but also all people working with SAP in our company. Nobody can even imagine going back to the old days.”

Fast track agile and SAP DevOps
Deploying Rev-Trac to manage its SAP change control processes has allowed Fromageries Bel to achieve its initial project goals. The company benefited from Rev-Trac’s advanced functionality, including workflow automation, conflict management through extended locking, and the Overtake and Overwrite Protection System (OOPS) to accelerate its SAP agile and DevOps journey. With OOPS, the SAP IT team can reduce the errors that may occur, which provides adequate security against production incidents and secures its transports.

Another valuable feature is the Release Management Workbench which simplifies the management of SAP change requests by release, Sprint or track, and supports the company’s agile and SAP DevOps objectives.

Automating its change management processes with Rev-Trac has enabled the cheesemaker to accelerate SAP change across its landscapes. Fromageries Bel relies on Rev-Trac’s workflow approval, transport deployment and sequencing, and object conflict management capabilities to significantly reduce the time it takes to get changes from development to production.

Production system stability under control
As part of the project, Fromageries Bel wanted to improve the stability of its production system.

Before implementing Rev-Trac, it took the organization between two to five hours to identify and fix an overtake/overwrite error. Implementing Rev-Trac has eliminated risky manual tasks resulting in an increasingly stable SAP environment. Production stability across its SAP landscape has increased by up to 69% (based on error reductions), and it receives up to three potentially dangerous overtake and overwrite error alerts per month.

Streamlining its operations and automating SAP change management has led to a more than 90% reduction in manual effort. The cheesemaker is spending less time on audit tasks — up to 90% — with a transparent and trackable history of every SAP change.

Adopting the automated solution has allowed Fromageries Bel to quickly realize other business benefits, including:
• Eliminating up to 70% of manual N to N+1 retrofit effort
• Up to 69% increase in the volumes of change managed
• A more than 70% improvement in the efficiency of its SAP change management processes

Rev-Trac Case Study

ASB Bank invests in Rev-Trac to manage change in N+1 landscape

Introduction

This case study of ASB Bank is based on a 2018 and 2019 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Most important part is planning. Understand the strategy you’re after and start from there. Configuration was straight forward and user adoption a non-issue. "

Challenges

For more than 170 years, ASB – New Zealand’s first saving bank – has been serving the community and helping locals to grow. Today, it provides a range of financial services including retail, business and rural banking and funds management. The Auckland headquartered institution employs 4,907 people (2018) to handle 1.3 million personal, business and rural customers who choose to bank with them.

ASB has built a reputation for embracing innovation and new technologies. An approach it also adopts for its back-end systems. To keep pace in the digital world, the bank revolutionized its SAP change management processes to support an N and N+1 development landscape efficiently. Revamping its processes and tasks would allow ASB to more efficiently manage significant projects, delivering greater success to the business faster while preventing unplanned downtime.

Use Case

SAP change automation is key
To meet its objectives, the financial institution decided to deploy Rev-Trac – the SAP DevOps platform — to transform its application delivery and minimize disruptions to the business.

Rev-Trac can be configured out-of-the-box and was productive less than one month after the initial implementation, helping ASB to address its specific goals for the project.

For ASB, planning was a crucial step in the deployment of the new automation technology. Configuration was straight forward and user adoption a non-issue, once the bank understood its strategy. Rev-Trac is an intuitive product that just works, allowing ASB to reduce production errors and simplify its SAP change management processes.

Results

More SAP change less risk
Since deploying Rev-Trac to support an N and N+1 environment, ASB has been able to meet the ever-changing demands of the business cost-effectively and more efficiently.

Automation has enabled ASB to efficiently support an N and N+1 dual development environment to respond quickly to changes in the market and maintain production stability. The go-live experience of SAP applications and enhancements has improved with ASB’s ability to control parallel development during the delivery process more effectively.

ASB has taken advantage of Rev-Trac’s advanced functionality, including the Release Management Workbench, safety checks and cross-application change management to enhance its delivery of SAP change across its N and N+1 environment. The solution’s Overtake and Overwrite Protection System (OOPS), for example, ASB can better manage parallel development, reducing change-related incidents and securing its transports.

Using Rev-Trac, the bank has increased the volume and velocity of SAP change for faster, better and safer applications. At the same time, automating their SAP change management processes has improved production system stability.

Before implementing Rev-Trac, it took ASB more than five hours to identify and fix an overtake/overwrite error. Deploying Rev-Trac has eliminated high-risk manual tasks resulting in an increasingly stable SAP environment. Now, with Rev-Trac, the financial institution receives more than 20 potential dangerous overtake and overwrite error alerts every month.

Automating its SAP change management processes has also enabled ASB to:
o to perform weekly routine deployments to production
o reduce time on audit tasks
o reduce production errors
o reduce manual retrofit effort

New era dawns for ASB
While it hasn’t determined its migration approach, ASB plans to migrate to S/4HANA within the next 24-60 months. The bank is still deciding how it will deploy SAP’s next-generation ERP system.

Leveraging Rev-Trac’s automation and enforcement capabilities allows ASB to better control parallel development for more efficient and cost-effective delivery of SAP change across it’s N and N+1 environment.

Through minimizing conflict and improving the volume and velocity of SAP change, the bank can more quickly realize the value of SAP applications, Rev-Trac’s flexibility, ease-of-use, and advance feature set assists ASB in effortlessly managing an upgrade or significant project.

Rev-Trac Customer Research

Greater than 90% of companies using Rev-Trac report more than a 50% reduction in manual effort

Survey Question: Please estimate the degree to which, Rev-Trac change control automation, has eliminated manual effort and improved efficiency:

Greater than 90%: 34%
70% – 90%: 38%
50% – 69%: 19%
30% – 49%: 6%
Less than 30%: 2%


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About Rev-Trac

Rev-Trac is the SAP DevOps orchestration platform.The solution Automates ABAP Transports and Cloud, while the 3rd party integrations and highly flexible workflows allow any organisation to build a unified SAP DevOps strategy for complex SAP landscapes.

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