Using ChaRM Retrofit?

[Former Member]

Greetings, Solution Manager experts.

My company is considering implementing an N + 1 ERP environment: 1 stream for maintenance, and 1 for project work.

At this time, I am trying to assess if ChaRM Retrofit is being widely used in the industry, and what benefits and problems companies have seen with it. From what I can tell, there is not much documentation available on this topic.

Are you using ChaRM Retrofit in an N + 1 SAP landscape?

If so, has your company see a benefit to using this product?

Can you offer any tips or watchouts to implementation?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Former Member]

Hi Chris,

- ChaRM can certainly be used in the kind of landscape you described

- The benefit for the company is:

- controll on all changes in the Project Env. and the Maintenance Env.

- the system warns you when a developper accesses an object or cusotmizing which is already in use by somebody else,

so this helps you to avoid overlapping activities.

- the Retrofit functionality is of great benefit to get the delta of a new development project as low as possible when you bring

it live.

- there are presentation ons the SAP sites, but indeed hard to catch. Look into the SolutionManager RKT, ther eis a lot fo new

material available.

Kind regards,

Rutger

[Former Member]

Hi,

Here are the information i collected about his topic. (hard to find information about that) :

Prerequisites :

A retrofit system must exist in the Maintenance Project (role type : Post Processing system). It should be a development system of an other project, for exemple an implementation project.

The task list of the maintenance project will now have two new tasks :

--> general tasks --> Assign Post Processing system to development system

--> Track section --> Post Processing --> retrofit systems --> start retrofit

I wish i could give clues for further research

Regards