Wuerzburg/Germany. As of May 2006, cost and time investment for im- plementation and upgrade projects has been drastically reduced for SAP customers, when use of the SAP Solution Manager Version 4.0 is combined with RBE Plus analysis. This has been made possible by an XML interface which transfers RBE Plus analysis results to the SAP Solution Manager. RBE Plus from IBIS, either utilized as a service or as a licensed product continues to add significant value for SAP customers, and customers have reported labor and consulting savings of 35% or more, compared with manual blueprinting efforts.


SAP AG and IBIS Prof. Thome AG have made another giant step in their cooperative development , namely the recently released capability of linking the SAP Solution Manager 4.0 to results of RBE Plus analysis. The release of the new “RBE Plus for SAP Solution Manager 4.0“ now makes automatic evaluation of business processes possible not only for the SAP Solution Manager 3.2, but for the Version 4.0 as well.

Applying this technology enables rapid acceleration of implementation and upgrade projects using the SAP Solution Manager. Even creating templates from existing SAP systems becomes much more streamlined. Experience from the first 15 projects shows the amount of time and effort needed to correctly model the processes used in the SAP Solution Manager when appropriate IT solutions are not used. “Modeling 165 active processes manually requires more than 44 person days on average”, says Andreas Hufgard, CEO of IBIS. Compared to this manual approach, the initial set up of the process model using “RBE Plus for SAP Solution Manager” allows the customers to complete the modeling exercise with only 8-10 person days. “We have found that implementing RBE Plus for SAP Solution Manager helped our first customers to save up to 75 percent of their time and effort”, confirmed Hufgard.

The RBE Plus technology determines those business processes actively used in your productive SAP systems automatically. These results are imported through a stan- dard SAP XML interface to an existing SAP Solution Manager project. All analysis results from the customers productive SAP system are mapped against SAP’s Bu-siness Process Repository (BPR). This enables IBIS Prof. Thome AG to automa-tically create an individualized process model in SAP Solution Manager based on the analyzed system (blueprint) by using the original BPR content of SAP. The XML in-terface was developed jointly between SAP AG and IBIS.

Another advantage of this type of import is that the elements copied to the project-specific blueprint can be upgraded at any time. This means that the SAP Solution Manager’s comprehensive upgrade and comparison functions can be used for the imported process model, once integration from RBE Plus has been completed. This is an absolute necessity for anyone, who wants to perform a release upgrade using SAP Solution Manager. It’s also required when you receive a new SAP content re-lease providing additional or adapted information for individual structure elements.

“RBE Plus for SAP Solution Manager is the ideal way to achieve an automatic pro-cess model verified with live data from your production system. Quality can also be improved dramatically with our additional reports”, explains Dr. Hufgard.

IBIS is currently presenting its latest RBE Plus developments and functions at its booths at the SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas (USA), DSAG Annual Congress 2006 in Leipzig (Germany) and “Managing SAP Projects 2006” in Orlando (USA). SAP cus- tomers are invited to live demos at these events.