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 Research

What are the most popular SAP ALM & DevOps tools?

What SAP ALM & DevOps tools does your SAP IT team use?

ServiceNow
56%
Jira
44%
HP QC ALM or HP Octane ALM
25%
None
13%
Tosca
11%
Worksoft testing solutions
8%
BMC Remedy
6%
LiveCompare
5%
Cherwell
4%
Panaya
4%
Virtual Forge
2%
V-Fire
0%

Rev-Trac Case Study

City of San Diego elects Rev-Trac

Introduction

This case study of City of San Diego is based on a December 2018 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Rev-Trac has saved me countless hours keeping our transports in sync between our production support and project landscapes. It also gives me full transparency to what change request contains which transports, where the transports have been migrated and at what step in our change control process every change is at.”

Challenges

With a population of more than 1.4 million people, San Diego is the 2nd largest city in California and the 8th largest in the United States. The city is in the seat of San Diego County and is the economic hub for the region. A mayor and nine-member council serves and supports the city’s residents. The City of San Diego is responsible for police, public safety, streets, water and sewerage, planning and zoning and, other services within its borders.

To both better manage and respond quickly to increasing demands from business units, the City of San Diego needed to automate its SAP change management processes. Automation would enable the administrative unit to reduce the costs of managing SAP change, tighten controls over releases and assist with achieving agile and DevOps strategies.

Other reasons the City of San Diego deployed Rev-Trac to automate its SAP change management processes include:
o to implement a release management strategy
o to facilitate an N and N+1 dual development environment
o to assist in managing an upgrade or significant project
o to enable an increase in change volume
o to help speed up the rate at which we can deliver change
o to simplify the SAP change management process

Use Case

Since deploying Rev-Trac — the SAP DevOps platform — to manage its change control processes, the City of San Diego has successfully addressed a number of challenges within its SAP environment.

Making use of Rev-Trac has enabled the City administration to increase the volume and velocity of SAP change for faster, better and safer SAP applications. At the same time, production system stability has improved with a reduction in the number of changed related incidents within their SAP environment.

Results

Implementing Rev-Trac has simplified SAP transport management, enabling the IT team to cost-effectively meet the City’s demands and, ultimately better serve the local community.

Before implementing Rev-Trac, it took IT more than 5 hours on average to identify and fix an overtake/overwrite error. Now, the City of San Diego is alerted to 11-20 potentially dangerous overtake and/or overwrite issues monthly.

Rev-Trac has also helped the City administration to:
o significantly reduce manual effort
o reduce time on audit tasks
o cut manual re-keying efforts
o improve control of releases
o reduce manual retrofit effort
o better manage parallel development
o improve the go-live experience
o realize business value of SAP applications

Rev-Trac Customer Review

“Easy installation and integration” – how often do you hear those words connected to enterprise software?

5/5 Stars

What was the main reason Rev-Trac was selected (over alternative approaches)?

We chose Rev-Trac because of its easy installation and integration, which is a quick ROI.

In a sentence or two, describe the operational impact Rev-Trac has had on your SAP IT organization:

Replaced a human (that was leaving the organization) for manual tasks, such as, OOPS checks, FTP transfers and queuing. Transport in a productive system without fear, especially large projects going live with more than 100 transports.

Rev-Trac Case Study

How Rev-Trac Helped a Global 500 Retail Company Overcome SAP change challenges

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise consumer products company is based on a September 2016 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Getting Rev-Trac in place took only several weeks and the robustness of the application is highly appreciated.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Rev-Trac — an SAP DevOps platform:

  • Used Rev-Trac to replace the following systems:
    • An in-house developed system

Use Case

Goals
The goals of the retailer’s SAP change control automation project were to assist in:

  • Implementing a Release Management strategy
  • Improve production system stability
  • Reduce the overall costs of managing SAP change

Solution
The Rev-Trac automated SAP DevOps platform was selected ahead of SAP Solution Manager ChaRM and several other third-party products.

The key features and functionalities of Rev-Trac that the surveyed company uses:

  • Integrated the following ALM tools into their Rev-Trac change management process:

- Code Profiler(Virtual Forge) & FrontRange(Heat Software)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Rev-Trac:

  • Improved each of these areas with Rev-Trac by the corresponding degree:
    • Reduced manual effort: 50% – 69%
    • Reduced time on audit tasks: 20% – 49%
    • Increased volume of change: 20% – 49%
    • Reduced production errors: 70% – 90%
    • Reduced manual retrofit effort: 20% – 49%
  • Has simplified or improved the managing of change throughout by 50% – 69% with Rev-Trac.
  • Found Rev-Trac to be in productive use within 1-3 months.
  • Estimates that Rev-Trac change management automation has eliminated their level of manual effort and improved efficiency by 50% – 69%.

Rev-Trac Customer Research

Energy & utility companies prefer peforming routine deployments to Production multiple times per week!

How frequently do you perform routine deployments to Production?

Ad Hoc: 7%
Daily: 21%
Multiple times per week: 57%
Weekly: 14%
Monthly: 0%
Quarterly: 0%

Rev-Trac Customer Fact

Invaluable features!

City of San Diego said Rev-Trac’s safety checks (OOPS, CISS, PODS etc.) were extremely valuable.



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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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