IntelliCorp Revolutionizes SAP Application Lifecycle Management

by Jessica Ann Morris

First Cross-SAP Portfolio Product from IntelliCorp Eases SAP Operational Challenges

IntelliCorp, a worldwide provider of software and applications for SAP lifecycle management and system support, today announced, at the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) and SAPPHIRE annual conferences (booth #756) in Atlanta, the availability of LiveCompare(TM) 2007, IntelliCorp's first tool to measure the impact of application lifecycle management (ALM) events across SAP's entire product portfolio. LiveCompare 2007, which is SAP-certified for NetWeaver, ends the unplanned costs, frustrating delays and guesswork associated with SAP operational activities.

"LiveCompare 2007 is a huge step forward for improving SAP ALM," said John Capron, end-to-end manufacturing infrastructure architect for IBM. "Assessor Template Packages answer 80%+ of our lifecycle questions and when we customize them further with LiveCompare Assessor Studio we increase that to 100%. No other solution has empowered our team with such valuable SAP system information, and that has meant significant time, cost and resource savings."

LiveCompare 2007 combines a powerful analytical engine, pre-packaged templates and a visual studio for customizing and composing templates. In operation, LiveCompare 2007 determines what has changed, as well as the impact of that change, by unobtrusively scanning one or more SAP environments. This yields a full set of answers to key questions involved with SAP ALM events and the resulting critical information enables companies to precisely identify the impact of change across their entire business.

"SAP customers continue to adopt products beyond ERP, such as HCM, SCM, BW and CRM, which makes SAP ALM more demanding for business and IT professionals," explained Christopher Trueman, CTO for IntelliCorp. "LiveCompare 2007 includes out-of-the-box templates that get the job done, whether it's an upgrade, support pack, merge, or daily synchronization of the landscape. By maximizing individual and team productivity, LiveCompare eliminates unnecessary manual effort to make SAP teams, as well as partners and systems integrators, more effective."

Pre-Packaged Assessor(TM) Templates Yield Immediate ROI

LiveCompare 2007 leverages the simplicity of IntelliCorp's Assessor applications to provide ready-to-run reports for SAP ALM events. Sold individually, Assessor Template Packages are currently available for:

• Upgrade
• Merge
• Support Pack
• Human Capital Management
• Business Intelligence
• Landscape Synchronization

Assessor Template Packages run out-of-the-box, or can be personalized using the built-in LiveCompare Assessor Studio, which features a drag/drop user interface and comprehensive library of more than 40 analytical components.

"Assessor Template Packages for LiveCompare 2007 present instant information in ways not currently available from SAP, or anyone else in the market, to help solve real-world SAP operational challenges," said Mr. Trueman. "This is a significant, tangible cost and time saving benefit for anyone running, or working with, SAP."