Heightened security threats to IT systems, frequent legal changes, and the need to ensure the flawless performance of business processes make it increasingly important for businesses to keep all their IT systems up-to-date. But without an established process it can be a time-consuming challenge. To help streamline the process, SAP recently released the new 7.1 version of its SAP Solution Manager application management solution.

With new and enhanced tools, applications, and services, the solution helps customers establish an automated and systematic approach to updating their SAP software regularly and maintain the security configuration of their SAP landscapes – whether they do it themselves or outsource it.

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 includes a new tool called System Recommendations, which automatically provides a tailored recommendation of critical SAP Notes and patches for ABAP- as well as Java-based SAP systems. Based on the actual status of the system and already implemented notes, the recommendations include security notes, performance-relevant notes, Java patches, legal change notes, high priority “HotNews,” as well as general SAP Notes.