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Figure 1: System Refresh Process

Announcement

As of May 1 2018, we have released an updated version 1.4.1 adding S/4HANA support to the list announced in February, 2018 (v1.4) where technical configurations included: ALL Netweaver ABAP instance TYPEs (BW, ERP, HR, CRM, SRM, SCM, GTS, WEM).  It is offered as a subscription service included FREE in our monitoring, or for separate subscription.  If interested, please Submit an Inquiry or visit the SID-Refresh Solution Page for further details on cost, and user guide.

"With SID-Refresh we save a lot of time, exporting customizing settings before a SAP System database refresh, and even more, when restoring them, after the copy: the tool rebuilds the selected customizing settings in a safe way and prevents possible mistakes coming from manual changes."

Dino Dose, Team Manager @ BGP Technology

Figure 1: System Refresh Process

v 1.4 Announcement Support ECC, CRM, BW, GTS, SRM, SCM, EWM, Solman

UPDATE: As of February 2018, we have superseded this Windows-only version with a Java version for all SAP platforms on Windows/Linux/Unix.  It is offered as a subscription service included in our monitoring or via a paid SID-Refresh subscription.  If interested, please visit announcement SAP Basis Automation with SID-Refresh Now Supports ECC/CRM/BW/GTS/SCM/EWM/Solman

For years, as a Basis consultant managing SAP landscapes and performing SAP OS/DB Migrations, I always wished for some SAP Basis Automation, especially with tedious and repetitive processes such as System cloning, migration, and refreshes especially in the pre and post copy steps.  At OZSoft, we built checklists and runbooks long before there was SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager (LVM).  Those checklists and scripts are still useful and worked well, but they are manual, and while SAP LVM Post-Copy Automation (PCA) improved those basis tasks - it's still a costly licensed product from SAP (enterprise license needed for PCA) requiring yet-another landscape.

The most simple tasks, if not automated, can become complex and error-prone when they are frequently repeated especially by different team members.  At IT-Conductor, we're all about simplication so we decided to automate this as SID-Refresh tool and release it as Freeware (credit goes to our Super Basis consultant Vladimir Mokrushov for taking on this challenge), with the goal of saving our Basis community members endless hours over and over again.  Afterall, we believe Automation is the only way to efficiently manage the ever growing complexity of SAP ecosystem.