What is DevOps for SAP?

DevOps is the principle of using ideologies and methodologies such as agile development, collaboration, automation, and flexibility during the entirety of the software development lifecycle. It enables the development and QA teams to work seamlessly with operations and business teams, which ultimately reduces turnaround times and increases efficiency drastically. This framework has been slowly gaining popularity and companies around the world have successfully adopted and reaped its benefits. By incorporating DevOps in your SAP systems, you will find that you’re able to deliver brand new products and features and upgrade older ones nearly 30% quicker than before. Your SAP system becomes more dynamic, allowing for quick adaptability to changing business requirements.

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How is DevOps for SAP implemented?

People working in SAP for a while would be very familiar with the set-in-stone processes, team divisions and work allocations – the silo mentality. Breaking that down is often a challenge but certainly not one that can’t be overcome. The architecture and technology in SAP are completely different from other development cultures. The use of transports and ABAP, using a shared code repository that only allows one active version at a time – these are characteristics peculiar to SAP. The tools used in regular software development to enable a smooth workflow and DevOps also pose a challenge in SAP. While there are a wide range of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Jira, GitHub, etc; these tools can’t be used in the same way that they are in regular software development. In SAP, the DevOps tools you use need to be specifically designed for the SAP platform. ReleaseOwl is a native DevOps platform for SAP applications that helps your orchestrate workflows CI/CD pipelines and test automation.