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eSpline has offered "Avenue Managing VC" and now Introducing Avenue Managing SSC"

 

global_network For the first time a SAP VC,  IPC or now SSC user has modeling tools to help improve the quality of the VC product model and improve productivity including:

1) Extract VC , IPC or SSC Models outside of SAP, 2) Compare two models and quickly view only the  changes, 3) View VC or IPC Models in navigable html and pdf documents,  4) Run an automated Health Check to identify modeling errors and review recommendations for productivity improvements and suggestions for best practice modeling practices helping you attain compliance with your modeling standards,  5) Document product models in navigable PDF and html documents,  6) Collaborate and make comments/annotations within the model where other Team members can track comments and tasks about changes, 7) Assign  tasks to other VC Team members and monitor progress of the tasks, 8) View Tests for the model with an integration to a VC Model Testing solution, 9) initiate Tests from within the model, 10) review test results, 11) Approve changes, and 12) Upload the model to a SAP QA instance.  The SSC is a different process.

Only eSpline’s Avenue Managing VC/SSC can do all of these.    There might be separate applications available today, but not in one application.  SAP Advanced Mode configurator and SAP CRM models are supported as well.


Track Every Change & Improve Model Quality

Avenue Managing VC or Aveue Managing SSC has an extensive Health Check where SAP product models are examined for errors, syntax and best practices.  The report is a very nice solution to keep models performing at their optimum and to help assure modelers are following recommended modeling practices.  Compliance to modeling standards can now be monitored no matter where the model resides or is being maintained.

SAP Variant Configurator or SSC users now have improved control and governance because Avenue Managing VC/SSC  tracks every change in SAP VC and SSC product models and that results in improved quality and traceability of changes across all versions of the VC model (in Avenue Managing VC).

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eSpline consultants experienced first hand the manual processes of identifying a change to a VC or IPC model, then making changes to the VC product model, communicating that the change was made, showing the change was made and proving the change was tested and then reviewing the change so the tested model can be moved to production.  But, how do you document that change?  How do you document the model?  How does one validate the entire process?

Most checking processes are similar but virtually all are manual.  Control is only as good as the processes that have been created internally and any manual process is at best, inconsistent.  The eSpline Managing VC solution offers a consistent method that will improve the change process and increase the quality of VC models at the same time and shorten process times (by customer example) by as much as 40% that it takes to get a change to production.

Avenue Managing VC can be used as a tool to assist during an audit of specification changes where all changes can be examined across all versions of a product model.  All annotations are noted, all tasks are saved and each task status is noted when changed.  Avenue Managing VC provides the documentation of the changes and also the final version of a product model.  All have been missing in an automated solution.   Avenue Managing VC is also used to compare SAP product models on different SAP instances to determine if they are the same.


Governance to the Change Process...

img_hardwareandsoftwareeSpline's Managing VC:Team Edition adds governance to the VC & IPC change process that improves quality and productivity with a combination of software tools and partner software running on an eSpline hosted server or on a server behind your firewall.

It is a long process and you go through many of these manually.  Governance can begin here:

  1.  Avenue Managing VC provides multiple ways to Extract a product model to an SaaS application

  2. You want to check the model for possible errors or issues with compatibility, so you run the Health Check

  3.  You review the Health Check report and make changes to a copied VC or IPC product model 

  4.  You direct Managing VC to Extract the changed VC product model or IPC or SSC Kb 

  5.  Now, there are two [2] versions of a product model [original and changed] 

  6.  View the model characteristics, pre-conditions, materials, dependency nets, long text, etc. in an  easy to read HTML from or create a PDF with active links for easy navigation of the model 

  7.  Compare the two selected models and see the differences highlighted in color, in seconds 

  8.  Managing VC recognizes changes, creates a test case and sends the test case to ConfigScan (Automated VC Testing solution) 

  9. Collaborate with your VC Team click on an icon next to the change and to make a comment / request and send a message to your VC Teams members or tester 

  10.  Managing VC sends an email with the message/comment for review and answer with a comment 

  11.  You may create additional, reusable test cases to automatically test your changes 

  12.  Then, you automatically test the changed model to make sure there are no conflicts resulting  

  13.  Repeat until the model behavior is stable and results are correct and documented 

  14.  ConfigScan informs Managing VC with a notification message and a green icon appears that the test cases passed

  15.   You review the changes and formally approve the changes with a click of the mouse 

  16. You, direct an automatic move or upload of the changed model to a target SAP instance  

  17. Create a Engineering Change Notice for the changes approved  

  18. Then, you have Managing VC document and archive the model by including the Model View PDF generated report, the generated test cases, the new VC model, original VC model, the Managing VC log files and your original specifications.

Avenue Managing VC has led you through a consistent process where you have:

Planned the change, made the change, created test cases, tested the changes, compared the changes, reviewed the changes, collaborated with your Modeling Team,  run the Health Check to make sure all errors were caught, approved the changes, moved the model to a SAP QA or Production instance and all transactions are recorded and logged.

Your model quality is assured

    improved governance for SAP Product models

    Now there is a history of the changes and tests.  You now have a repository of the changes with the original and new VC models and you have done it in nearly half the time as the manual process.  This is improved productivity. With the ability to track all transactions made while in the eSpline Managing VC Portal, reqports can be created from the log files. Now you have Governance.

    Except for making the model changes, the change process has been improved and automated.   Your model is thoroughly tested and the Project Manager has seen the test results, the changes have been approved and now are ready for moving to QA or Production. 


    Try it with your VC, IPC or SSC product models

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