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Focused Insights
Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager
Build and distribute powerful dashboards that unify, aggregate, and correlate metrics.
Deliver the most relevant and valuable information to the right people in real time. Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager incorporates the best practices and experience gained from numerous custom projects to offer you a set of pre-packaged dashboards tailored to your needs.
Read the SP06-blog to see what the new release holds on for you.
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Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager provides ready-to-use template tailored to your IT organization's goals.
- Build custom-specific, easy-to-use dashboards in minutes (read the blog)
- Pre-packaged content with simplified configuration models, no programming needed
- Monitor 800+ best-practice KPIs, pre-selected for standard use cases
- Mix real-time or historic metrics from across all SAP Solution Manager use cases
- Ideal to build your Innovation Control Center and Operations Control Center
- Enable top-level, strategic, KPI-driven management for the business solution for IT and Business
Overview in Detail
Overview Presentation
What's New Presentation
- Access and manipulate all SAP Solution Manager's metrics
- Design custom specialized views
- Mix up scenarios and data sources
- Build hierarchies and aggregated indicators
- Tackle large and complex landscapes
- Jump-in to integrated SAP Solution Manager expert tools
- Publish appealing user interfaces which improve efficiency
As of 2020, the usage rights of SAP Solution Manager include SAP Focused Build and Insights – at no additional costs! No restriction of users or usage.
Premium engagement customers obtain usage rights independent of ordering engagement services. The configuration or setup services are still part of the portfolio.
- Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager
A ready-to-run and integrated, tool-supported methodology to manage requirements and software development in large, agile projects.
News and Updates
Out Now: Support Package SP06 of Focused Insights 2.0 for SAP Solution Manager 7.2
Support Package SP06 for Focused Insights 2.0 has been released and is now available for customers and partners.
- To get an overview about the functional details see the SP06 blog
- For a deeper look see the what's new and overview presentation
- Visit the SAP Help Portal to discover in the user guides what SP06 holds on for you
As of 2020, the usage rights of SAP Solution Manager include Focused Build and Insights – at no additional costs!
New Content for Focused Insights in ALM Value Map
Check out the benefits of the Application Lifecycle Management Value Map with its new learning assets for Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager. Learn more and sign up here.
Test the Focused Insights solution in the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP08 & Focused Solutions SP03 (Demo System).
The solution contains:
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP08 (managing system)
- Focused Build and Focused Insights 2.0 SP03
- Preconfigured Focused Build system w/o data and w/o attached SAP S/4 HANA system
This system could be used as baseline system for a new SAP Solution Manager system to be used as project implementation tool.
Customers and partners can create their own instance from it for private use (demo, testing purpose, etc.). Learn how to get the usage rights from CAL to deploy it as your own system in this blog post.
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Resources
* Before you can access the registration link, a one-time registration in SAP Learning Hub, edition for SAP Enterprise Support, is required. A detailed step-by step guide to registration can be found here.
Product Information
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Demo Systems
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Implementation
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- Prerequisites for Focused Build and Focused Insights SP06 is SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 11
- Access the Focused Build and Focused Insights 2.0 (Installations and Upgrades) info page in the SAP Software Download Center and navigate to > Downloads tab > Installation and Upgrade.
- Select the ZIP file “FOCUSED BUILD AND INSIGHTS 2.0 Add-On Inst. ST-OST 200” and make a right mouse click on the linked number to download and save the file locally. Alternatively, you can also add the file to your Download Basket and download the file via your locally installed SAP Download Manager (SAP Download Manager Help)
- Install the add-on from your download folder to your SAP Solution Manager system using transaction /SAINT.
- Important SAP Notes
- 2392728 – Central Note for Focused Insights ST-OST 200 (composes all fixes with the shipment of SP06)
Watch the the YouTube webinar to see how easy it is to build and distribute customer-specific dashboards.
Furthermore, access the Focused Insights User Guides at the SAP Help Portal:
- Application Performance Dashboard
- Operations Control Centers Dashboard
- Operation Dashboard
- Readiness Dashboard
- Score Card Dashboard
- Tactical Dashboard
- Service Level Reporting Dashboard
Support
- Support from Partners
Local partners support you in setting up your focused solution, provide knowledge transfer, and assist you in managing the project.
- Support for Technical Inquiries
As a Focused Solutions customer, you can create technical inquiries with component SV-SMG-OST in SAP ONE Support Portal.
- Focused Solution FAQs
- Couldn't find the answer you were looking for? Contact us at focused.solutions@sap.com.