SAP Focused Run

The ultimate solution for high volume monitoring, alerting, diagnostics, and analytics

SAP Focused Run is designed for businesses that need high-volume system and application monitoring, alerting, and analytics. It's a powerful solution for service providers who want to host their customers in one central, scalable, safe, and automated environment. It addresses customers with advanced needs in system management, user and integration monitoring, and configuration and security analytics.


SAP Focused Run 4.0 FP03 is out now.

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If you already know SAP Focused Run, please also check the delta presentation for the latest release:

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Implementation

Use Cases

Integration & User Monitoring

  • Synthetic User Monitoring allows you to monitor user scenarios based on synthetic probes sent from robots, which can be deployed in different customer locations.
  • Real User Monitoring provides measurement of different user request types, such as HTTP(S), SAPUI5, RFC and SAPGUI.
  • Integration & Exception Monitoring provides monitoring of data exchange processes between different systems within a solution landscape or between systems and public cloud services.

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Application & System Monitoring

This set of applications can be used to manage systems and cloud services in a unified way. 

  • Job & Automation Monitoring provides efficient monitoring capabilities of auto-discovered SAP standard jobs and selected SAP application jobs.
  • Health Monitoring monitors cloud or on-premise based applications by using a unique approach in combination with adding context information.
  • System Monitoring is the standard tool for monitoring of technical systems including their instances, databases and hosts

Alert & Notification Management

  • This application is the central access point to handle alerts from different use cases like system monitoring, user monitoring and integration monitoring.
  • Allows efficient handling of high volumes of alerts, based on a dashboard-driven approach.
  • Integrate alerts coming from external monitoring systems into Alert Management (inbound integration), as well as forward alerts to external event and alert management or ticket systems (outbound integration).
  • For System Monitoring, automated alert reactions, especially for production-down situations, are provided out-of-the-box. 

Analytics & Intelligence

  • The out-of-the-box dashboarding and intelligence capabilities offer a unified shell as commonly used UI platform across all applications to enable a unified user experience.
  • Seamless integration and customization of monitoring, alerting, and analytics enable a one-stop user experience.
  • The infrastructure allows use case specific adoption of Artificial Intelligence as it makes sense and adds value, e.g. for automatic Metric Forecasting and System Anomaly Prediction.
  • Tactical Dashboard can report the status of key performance indicators for your solution landscapes.

Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis consists of several different applications:

  • Configuration & Security Analysis provides an overview of the changes that have been applied to systems, databases, and operating systems.
  • System Analysis provides an overview on actual and historic monitoring data from the whole system landscape, with a drill down and customizing possibilities.
  • Trace Analysis traces specific user activities across different SAP on-premise and cloud technologies.

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Operations Automation

  • Operations Automation for System Management in SAP Focused Run provides an easy way to document and optionally automate reoccurring operational activities as guided procedures. These guided procedures help the user to execute reoccurring administrative activities or alert reaction procedures in a guided and reproducible way. In addition, it is possible to automate the activities inside guided procedures and to execute them automatically with or without minimal manual involvement.
  • Automated Health Checks complement deep-dive analysis of critical situations.

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Maintenance & Service

Applications allow you to monitor systems, databases and operating systems for the whole solution landscape. 

  • Management applications, such as down time/work mode management, IT calendar, service availability management, and Maintenance Certificate Management are provided.
  • Data will be delivered for SAP EarlyWatch Alert and SAP Maintenance Planner running in SAP Support cloud.

Service Level Management

This set of applications can be used to manage systems and cloud services in a unified way.

  • Efficient IT Event and Service Level Management of on-premise systems and cloud services by IT Calendar & Work Mode Management as well as Service Availability Management.

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Resources

Overview Assets

Get familiar with the concepts and functions included in SAP Focused Run.

Overview Presentation
Delta 4.0 FP02 - 4.0 FP03

Demo Systems

A SAP Focused Run trial license can be acquired. Contact your SAP sales representative.

There is a pre-configured public demo system for SAP Focused Run 4.0 SP03 with sample data available.

An unconfigured and an already configured version of SAP Focused Run 4.0 FP03 are also available via the SAP Cloud Appliance Library.

Demo Videos

Please check out the following demo videos:

Advanced Configuration Monitoring
Advanced Integration Monitoring
Create Custom Page in Synthetic User Monitoring
IT Calendar and Workmode Management
Service Availability Management
Real User Monitoring
Synthetic User Monitoring
System Health Check
System Analysis
Trace Analysis

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 customer, you can create technical inquiries with component SV-FRN-* in SAP for Me.