Application lifecycle management describes the implementation, coordination, and monitoring of the different phases required to introduce and maintain a software solution. The phases are as follows:

• project management
• requirements management
• design phase
• development
• quality assurance
• release management
• optimization

Most customers expect their application lifecycle management solution to:

• define change requests across multiple technologies
• effectively map existing, established processes
• provide a graphical editor to make the definition of processes more intuitive
• include predefined workflow activities
• actively control the deployment process
• have open interfaces for integration with service desk solutions
  
  

theGuard! ChangePilot and theGuard! SyncAssist are the latest addition to theGuard! suite of products: Combined with theGuard! TransportManager, one of REALTECH's tried and tested solutions, they form a package solution that not only manages application lifecycles across multiple technologies but also contributes the experience gained from more than 150 worldwide theGuard! TransportManager projects to support the deployment of SAP changes.

theGuard! ChangePilot has the features needed to define and monitor the processes necessary to implement a controlled change and release management. theGuard! SyncAssist and theGuard! TransportManager were designed to support the deployment and quality assurance of SAP-related change processes. The solutions take into account the particularities and critical aspects associated with the simultaneous development of two or more releases and meet the demands for a flexible and fast deployment of changes for the purpose of maintaining and repairing existing releases.