{"id":31826,"date":"2022-08-08T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blue.works\/?p=31826"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T08:59:27","slug":"new-sap-solution-manager-7-2-sp15-focused-build-sp10-update-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blue.works\/en\/new-sap-solution-manager-7-2-sp15-focused-build-sp10-update-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand new, but already tried: SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP15 and Focused Build SP10 update highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAP released the latest Support Packages for Solution Manager 7.2 and Focused Build and Insights add-on (ST-OST) in the end of July. For SolMan it marks already the 15th SP and for ST-OST it\u2019s the 10th.
So small anniversaries, congratulations! <\/a>In this post, we will highlight some of the changes coming with these new updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP held a Customer Connect last year, event where customers can give their input about the product \u2013 request new features, inform about old bugs or just give quality of life improvements. Which requests get the most votes in the SAP community, will be taken into development. This Customer Connect for SolMan (including Focused Build) featured this time areas for Process Management, Test Suite and Change and Release Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have already installed the updates on our systems. The upgrade itself and following post-configuration did not cause any problems compared to some older updates. Of course  this can vary from system-to-system based on the done modifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operations and Focused Insights<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately there are no big news regarding Operations side as like already said, the update concentrated mostly on the Customer Connect and therefor the changes are for these functional areas. The only noteworthy additions come from the Focused Insights add-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, SAP has provided the option to add you own OCC queries to the Tactical dashboard as a separate category. This opens up many possibilities to enrich the already good overview page of the Tactical dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second news is regarding the ITSM data provider (DP_ITSM). SAP redesigned the data provider to use CRM data source, making the data more accurate. If you have created dashboards for ITSM, then you probably have also seen that the old DP_ITSM did not always give you the numbers as you would see in CRM. As a fallback, you had to use CRM saved searches (DP_CRM) to get the data. This change is a welcome improvement, although the metric selection is limited, so Saved Searches will still have their place on these dashboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementations<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

There are many smaller changes for implementations, which are really valuable. For example you will find new Fiori apps for quicker direct access from the launchpad and different new search fields for apps. Unified Business Partner search first introduced with SP09 for Test Management, has now been enabled to all the UIs in Focused Build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are too many to list them all, so we will concentrate on some of the highlights for us.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test Suite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest development pieces was the completely new designed Test Suite Dashboard.  This was also one of the reasons why we are already productive with the new Support Package at the first of our customers. The new dashboard is very well done and reminds us of the great analytics features of SAP Cloud ALM – very well done SAP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are looking forward to using it productively in the next functional test phase of the S\/4 implementation project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides the new dashboard, it has quite a few new features in the testing section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n