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About ALM
This Community has a very broad range of subject matter, covering the full Application Lifecycle of your SAP solution. From end-to-end solution scoping, implementation (including testing), support, operations, maintenance and optimisation. Typically, the events of this Community are designed to assist you in leveraging the optimal use of your SAP landscape and the supporting SAP tools available to you (particularly SAP Solution Manager and Cloud ALM) and those available from partners.
Related Focus Groups
Implementation
Best practice regarding the methodology and planning, configuration, deployment and testing of SAP products and solutions for maximising business value. Within Application Lifecycle Management, this encompasses areas such as Solution Planning, Build, Process Design and Documentation, Testing, Change Request Management, Project Delivery, Focused Build and more.
Operations
Best practice regarding operational assurance of SAP products and solutions for maximising business value. Within Application Lifecycle Management, this encompasses SAP Support, CoE, Operations, Focused Run, Focused Insights, Reporting, Monitoring, Code and Licences Management and more.
Optimisation
Best practice regarding maximising the value from SAP products and solutions. Within Application Lifecycle Management, this encompasses Business Process Operations, Analytics, Process mapping, tooling such as Signavio, SAP LaMa, Automation, quality and code management, ALM roadmaps, customer stories and more.
Community Chairs
Rhian Parry
Rhian has over 25 years’ service working within the water industry, with a broad range of experience in IT Projects through to Water and Waste Operations and within this time has been involved in many full lifecycle implementations, SAP upgrades and strategic SAP Roadmap projects. Rhian works in Welsh Water’s SAP Collaboration Centre as an SAP Solutions & Assurance Lead, managing a team of Solution specialists specialising in SAP SuccessFactors, Cloud For Customer, Concur, SAP ECC Finance, Plant Maintenance, Reporting and Procurement. Being a key contact for all SAP support processes and SAP Licencing. Previously managed SAP Security team and was Co-Chair of the prior ACS SIG. Rhian moved to the ALM Support Community Chair role in March 2022.
Richard O'Donnell
Richard manages SAP testing for Dwr Cymru Welsh water, who he has been with for 19 years playing a key role in a number of major implementations. Active in the user group since 2005, he focuses on the Implementation Community within ALM.
Rohan Parikh
Rohan has over 16 years of SAP experience across technical and product areas specialising in ALM, SAP Operations and public Cloud technologies. He is passionate about innovating with SAP products, simplifying Operations and SAP best practices enabling customers to run world class SAP lifecycle stages with lower TCO. In his current role at Maersk, he is the SAP Platform Architect for ALM, Tooling and Automation. Prior to this, Rohan held similar roles at bp, GlaxoSmithKline, Centrica and the Royal College of Music. On a more personal note he captains a darts team, enjoys architecture, sports and loves to travel.
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