After Go-Live

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to identify the roles and responsibilities and the change management process after go live.

After Go-Live

Customer key user responsibilities after go-live:

  • Processing incidents from end users, attempting to resolve the issue and if not, interfacing with SAP Support
  • Maintaining users with access authorizations, user substitutions and monitoring business tasks​

  • Maintaining and monitoring background jobs and communication with external systems​

  • Adapting the solution as needed, such as changing form templates, scope, and configuration settings
  • Testing upgrades​
  • Training new users and provide enhancement training for existing users​

Upgrades

SAP Cloud for Customer Upgrades:​

  • Customers are notified by email from SAP 4-6 weeks before the production tenant upgrade.​
  • Communications are sent to the customer’s IT contact, as maintained in the Service Control Center → Contact Details view.
  • Release notes are published as What’s New in the Help Center documentation.​
  • The test tenant is upgraded two weeks before production upgrade.​
  • Upgrades should be positioned as a non-event, meaning that testing is not required.​
  • For the two weeks following the test tenant upgrade, remember the following:
    • Change projects cannot be merged from test to production.​
    • Go-lives should be avoided.​
    • Avoid applying partner solutions via the SAP Cloud Applications Studio.​
    • Do not request new tenants.​
    • Do not request termination of tenants.
  • Upgrades should be positioned as a non-event, meaning that testing is not required.​
  • For approximately two weeks during which test tenants are upgraded and production tenants are not, remember the following:​
    • Change projects cannot be merged from test to production.​
    • Go-lives should be avoided.​
    • Avoid applying SDK solutions.​
    • Do not request new tenants.​
    • Do not request termination of tenants.​
  • Note that all previously requested restore points are no longer available after the upgrade.​

Making changes after Go-Live

Business case - ensuring all the company's requirements were met

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