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Sergio Ferrari
December 9, 2009 2 minute read

a starting point to perform a software Assessment of your SAP ECC

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After years of continues improvements, each SAP ECC system becomes unique and a certain time in its life, for example to estimate and plan an upgrade, a software assessment may be
required.

The level of complexity of the system itself, the number of di erent technical objects with the related SAP standard or SCN Community driven tools is so high that it’s quite easy to get lost.

To help keeping in mind the overall picture I designed a one page map, a poster that I’m glad to share with the community.

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I perform Software Assessments without following a speci c sequence but I always organize the results in a well structured directory that looks like the layers in the poster. In the same way the
slides of the nal presentation and the comprehensive spreadsheets adopt the same structure.

The goal of Software Assessments is to providing numbers (counters) of di erent types of objects and eventually provide indicators to help to estimate the complexity and di cultness. I think
the SLOC, the number of line of code of custom objects is one of the most interesting indicators but I also keep into special consideration the number of modi cations, enhancements and SAP
Clones (copies of SAP standard objects modi ed by the customers).

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At times it’s also very interesting to count the customizing entries to map number of de ned company codes, plants, sales area but also document types and so on. Transaction SCU0 is very
powerful and let you compare a client (e.g. your productive one) with a reference (e.g. 000 SAP standard).

The challenges

Used/Unused: I still feel a bit complex to classify an object as really used. For sure ST03N is an important source of information but I developed some tools that I use in my Assessments (I
call them X-RAY sessions) because I think something is still missing in the standard.
Reports/ Inbound and Outbound Interface / Automation: it’s normally very interesting to distinguish between read only reports and interfaces or utilities that update business data. 
Unfortunately technically they are all ABAP of type=1. The description and the package should specify what a kind of object it is. Also in this case I developed a some tools to SCAN the source
code and classify for example as inbound interface an ABAP that contains a call to the BDC_OPEN function module.

Community driven Tools

Blog: how many lines of custom ABAP code are inside your system?
Blog: The speci ed item was not found.Blog: How many exit routines are active in your SAP ERP system?
Code Gallery: ABAP-Download All Custom (Z) Objects with respect to DEV Class
Code Gallery: Search for Strings in ABAP Source Code

Out-of-scope:

Solution Manager based tools are out-of-scope just because I’m still investing on them.
I consider User Authorizations and Infrastructure as well as Performance related topics out-of-scope for this blog.

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Mark Teichmann

December 9, 2009 at 4:58 am

You can nd some nice tools at http://www.dalestech.com

Especially the massdownload tool is great!

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