Enhanced efficiency, quality, and security for your SAP change management   SAP systems handle mission-critical and accounting-relevant processes within your business while having to comply with ever increasing requirements regarding consistency, transparency and traceability of processes and data. Changes in these systems often entail risks that could bring your entire business to a halt. These risks, however, can be minimized through high standards of quality and security in change management. Secure transports thus play a central role in SAP environments. It ensures that changes are transferred to productive operation where they affect the day-to-day business.     theGuard! TransportManager takes on the challenge of securing transports in SAP environments   theGuard! TransportManager is an easy-to-use software for the automated distribution of program and data modifications in ABAP and Java applications within your SAP systems. Authorization concepts and workflows tailored to your individual needs control the secure transport of changes into distributed SAP system landscapes.

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With theGuard! TransportManager, version mismatches (incorrectly transmitted or erroneously overwritten data objects) are a thing of the past. It also helps companies drastically reduce quality assurance overhead and costs that might be caused by disaster recovery procedures. Furthermore, collisions or the transport of unwanted changes into mission-critical productive systems will no longer be a headache.

TransportManager is fully integrated in SAP, eliminating the need to spend money on additional hardware. Its convenient operation within the familiar SAP environment guarantees rapid implementation and acceptance among users and administrators.

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"Managing transports used to require significant manual work — which has been all but eliminated since we have introduced theGuard! TransportManager. At the same time, we have been able to minimize the risk of system outages caused by uncontrolled SAP transports."
Jürgen Wagner, SAP Administrator at MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG

theGuard! TransportManager allows companies working with SAP NetWeaver to synchronously distribute ABAP and Java objects that are logically interdependent in heterogeneous NetWeaver system landscapes. The management of the related transports is consistent and is realized using shared workflow monitoring.
The underlying solution is based on SAP's Enhanced Change and Transport (CTS+) concept introduced by SAP for SAP NetWeaver 2004s. It homogenizes different stand-alone solutions in the field of SAP software logistics.

theGuard! TransportManager authorization concept for the approval of transports and its comprehensive documentation comply with the specific requirements set by audits, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the German Banking Act (KWG). The internal control system required under new regulations is thus optimally supported in the field of SAP Change Management.

In October 2005, theGuard! TransportManager was reviewed and successfully approved by Ernst & Young.

• Increased availability and consistency of your SAP systems
• Avoidance of collisions and version mismatches in SAP change management
• Reduced quality assurance overhead
• Highly transparent processes thanks to automatic notifications to everyone involved
• Individual authorization concepts for the approval of transports and workflows.
• Synchronous transport of ABAP and Java objects in SAP NetWeaver
• Compliance with specific audit requirements (SOX and KWG)