Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager is an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool used to manage SAP systems end to end, from administration and testing to monitoring and change control. For job scheduling, SAP Solution Manager acts as the control point for scheduling changes.
Keep SAP job schedules compliant, auditable and in sync
Integrate change approval and scheduling into one streamlined workflow.
Govern changes
Tightly control SAP job schedule updates.
Prevent disruptions
Surface dependencies and impacts before schedule changes go live.
Prove compliance
Maintain audit trails that show who changes what, when and why.
SAP job scheduling aligned with lifecycle governance
SAP Solution Manager is the central point of control for changes in your SAP ecosystem, including changes to SAP jobs and processes. As you promote schedule changes through stages of the lifecycle, Tidal’s SAP Solution Manager integration supports change management processes across your SAP systems.
Tidal’s integration provides checks and balances between Tidal and SAP Solution Manager to ensure SAP business processes run as expected and schedule changes don’t produce unanticipated results. These communications improve visibility into the potential impact of SAP changes. Approvers can see dependencies that exist at any point in the workflow, not just in SAP. Before making a decision or initiating action, they can anticipate how a change to an SAP schedule could affect downstream processing.
To support compliance requirements, Tidal’s comprehensive audit logs demonstrate that you have the right controls for process and system changes. Like all Tidal adapters, this one is ready-to-run for seamless integration without scripting.
What the adapter enables
Tidal’s SAP Solution Manager integration extends SAP’s native scheduling capabilities, allowing teams to:
- Achieve cross-platform orchestration across SAP and non-SAP systems
- Apply event-driven automation
- Ensure governance before execution of lifecycle workflows
- Log all changes in audit-ready format for compliance purposes
- Push job schedule changes made in Tidal to SAP Solution Manager for approval
- Retrieve SAP ERP job definitions and detect schedule modifications
- Route updates through lifecycle workflows before execution
- Visualize job interdependencies before approval
How it works
Through the adapter, Tidal:
- Coordinates the execution of approved jobs across SAP and connected environments
- Goes to SAP Solution Manager to get ERP jobs and capture any changes to schedules
- Pushes changes to SAP schedules made in Tidal to SAP Solution Manager for routing and approval prior to execution in the SAP environment
Overcome SAP Solution Manager job scheduler limitations
Tidal has advanced scheduling features and capabilities that enable teams to orchestrate complex workflows across any platform or application, going above and beyond what’s possible with SAP Solution Manager Scheduling Enabler (SMSE). From a centralized dashboard, teams can manage SAP and non-SAP schedule changes, visualize dependencies and enforce approval workflows with full audit trails. Tidal helps teams optimize scalability and execute a high volume of jobs without complicated configurations and monitoring.
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Tidal and SAP Solution Manager integration FAQs
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Is SAP Solution Manager Job Scheduler a comprehensive tool?
While SAP Solution Manager Scheduling Enabler (SMSE) job scheduler, also called SolMan, offers some benefits, it also has limitations. It is limited to managing and scheduling jobs within SAP systems, and while APIs and interfaces may help with integration, its functionality is limited. SolMan also supports limited job types that may not cover all scenarios or specialized requirements. SolMan does not have advanced features such as event-driven scheduling or workload balancing.
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What is SAP Solution Manager used for?
SAP Solution Manager is an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool used to manage SAP systems throughout their lifecycle. It helps with administration, troubleshooting, test management and monitoring to ensure the efficient and reliable operation of SAP applications.