"Strategies for Exploiting the SAP Solution Manager" by Derek Prior is the AMR Research Report from May 2008, recommending IBIS and RBE Plus for a successful project launch with the SAP Solution Manager.

An automatic RBE Plus analysis directly within a productive SAP system facilitates the collection and preparation of relevant data for import to the SAP Solution Manager.
 
Immediately following the analysis, blueprint and configuration data can then be loaded directly to the SAP Solution Manager via standard interfaces.