ROI Calculator for SAP DevOps

Number of SAP Users

Size of the Technical Team (Development)

Size of the Technical Team (Release Management)

Number of SAP Landscapes

Number SAP Systems / Landscape

How many times you deploy per year to Production (Number of Releases)

Total Number of transports deployed to Production (Per Year)

Average Cycle Time (Time taken for a change to deliver from requirement to Production) in Hrs

Average Cycle time Per SAP System (Hop from Dev to QA )

Avg. number of hotfixes (P0 or P1 Production Incidents) per Year

Time Taken for a hotfix resolution (Incident Logging to Production Deployment) in Hrs

Cost of Team Member (Along with benefits) Per Hr

Cost of DevOps Resources along with benefit Per Hr (Comparatively Premium to Hire)

Average cost of Outage (Source: Stephen Elliot & IDC Team for critical application failure segment). Link here: https://devops.com/real-cost-downtime/

Average Revenue of the employee

Deployment Frequency

Lead Time for Change (in Hrs)

Mean Time to Restore (in Hrs)

Change Failure Rate (As Percent)

# of change control/approval tasks for a transport lifecycle

Total Time Spent on Approvals per year (15 secs / task) in Hrs

# of manual steps (Transport Operations, Config changes etc.,) for a change

Total number of manual steps for the year for all the transports

Total Time spent on manual steps (15 Secs / manual step) in Hrs

Average number of Failed Deployments (Rework Cycles) in a release

Average Total number of Failed Deployments in the year

Total Rework Time

Total Time Spent on Inefficiencies (Hrs)

Cost Savings of Inefficiences

%Time Recovered for Reinvestment

Increase in Revenue

Total Cost of Annual Downtime

Value of DevOps Driven Development

Assessments & Road Map

Automation Software License

DevOps Team (1:10 Devs if release management team is present)

Training / Coaching

Total Investment

Payback Period (in Years)

Payback Period (in Days)

Return on Investment