Inclusion of Customer-Specific Transport Requests in Software Architecture Update Procedures
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsTamara Weckwerth, Stefan Mueller, Joerg Schoen
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Abstract
In contrast to conventional approaches in which an update to a business software architecture generally involves performing update procedures during a period of business downtime followed by an import of customer-specific transport requests also during business downtime, the current subject matter can facilitate import of the customer transport requests in parallel with update to a core software platform of the business software architecture.
Claims19
A computer program product comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a system comprising a programmable processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- creating customer-specific developments based on a target update release in a development system to which an update of a core software platform of a software architecture has been applied, the customer-specific developments comprising a customization of the core software platform that is specific to a given customer organization using the software architecture;
- updating and testing a quality control or other test system, the updating comprising importing customer-specific transport requests representing the customer-specific developments;
- updating a productive system to the target update release, the updating comprising importing the customer-specific transport requests to the productive system;
- and
- returning the productive system to business use and executing one or more post processing procedures concurrently with the business use.
A system comprising:
- at least one programmable processor;
- and
- a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
- creating customer-specific developments based on a target update release in a development system to which an update of a core software platform of a software architecture has been applied, the customer-specific developments comprising a customization of the core software platform that is specific to a given customer organization using the software architecture;
- updating and testing a quality control or other test system, the updating comprising importing customer-specific transport requests representing the customer-specific developments;
- updating a productive system to the target update release, the updating comprising importing the customer-specific transport requests to the productive system;
- and
- returning the productive system to business use and executing one or more post processing procedures concurrently with the business use.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- creating customer-specific developments based on a target update release in a development system to which an update of a core software platform of a software architecture has been applied, the customer-specific developments comprising a customization of the core software platform that is specific to a given customer organization using the software architecture;
- updating and testing a quality control or other test system, the updating comprising importing customer-specific transport requests representing the customer-specific developments;
- updating a productive system to the target update release, the updating comprising importing the customer-specific transport requests to the productive system;
- and
- returning the productive system to business use and executing one or more post processing procedures concurrently with the business use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.