SAP TAO and Panaya – Complementers and not competitors

Panaya is new Software as a Service solution that reduces the cost and risk of making changes to ERP systems. The tool was founded in 2005 by Yossi Cohen, an expert in the field of application management.


It is designed for business users, from CIOs to business analysts, Panaya automatically analyzes the impact of pending business process changes and informs all stakeholders on a need to know basis. Panaya can be used during implementation, maintenance and upgrades.


Utilizing a SaaS model, Panaya can be deployed within a few hours to instantaneously lessen the risk of business disruption and reduce ERP maintenance costs.


What Panaya provides?

• Effective Test Management
• Shows you what will break
• Tells you exactly what to test
• Automatic code corrections
• No more test maintenance: test scripts always stay up-to-date
• Creates test scripts for you, as you go
• Tests can be run manually or automatically
• Test results are documented for you

What can be achieved by using Panaya?

• Cut 70% of your SAP upgrade cost and Effort.
• Cut 50% of your planning and development costs.
• Enable companies that use SAP to save up to 50% of their application lifecycle costs.
• Minimize the risks associated with system changes.
• Utilizing cloud-based simulation to analyze the impact of pending changes, Panaya automatically pinpoints which custom programs will break as a result of an upgrade or support package implementation.
• No Installation required.
• Reduce risk of post go-live downtime.

How it complements SAP TAO?

• The main pre-requisite for automation using SAP TAO is availability of manual test cases in a standard format. Panaya provides manual test cases as you go saving lots of time and effort.
• SAP TAO has high reusability and ease maintenance – minimal effort is required during maintenance phase – Panaya can really help TAO when SAP Upgrade happens.

SAP TAO 1.0 Vs SAP TAO 2.0

The features of SAP TAO 2.0 is listed  with updated information and it is compared with the older version of SAP TAO 1.0

SAP TAO 1.0
Modules :
Inspect
Consolidate
Import/Export and
Connect

Configuration Tab :
It contains the following tabs:
Inspect
Import/Export
Consolidate
Log
Expert
License
Inspect:
It does not have UI scanner in this tab
Solution Manager is mandatory for license only
Process flow analyzer is not available
Repository is not available
Change Analyzer is not available

SAP TAO 2.0.2.1
Modules :
Process flow Analyzer
Inspect
Consolidate
Import/Export
Change Analyzer
Repository
Connect
Self Check

Configuration Tab :
It contains the following tabs:

Inspect
Import/Export
Consolidate
Log
License
PFA
Expert
Others
RTL
Inspect :
Execute libraries line, Component type (both Get, Set).

UI Scanner is also available along with Inspect
Solution Manager is mandatory for PFA, Change Analyzer, Repository, Inspect and license
PFA is available
1.It records user interactions and the sequence of screens to execute a business process, in the SAP TAO repository.
2. It automates inspection and creation of the test components and a parameterized draft transition test case.
3. It automatically creates the data table spreadsheet with the DT columns and values used during the recording process.

Repository is available
The SAP Test Acceleration and optimization repository is a part of the SAP Solution Manger system and is used to store:
1.User interaction and sequence of the screens in a business process. 2.Information specific to SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization that cannot be retrieved by other tools.
3.Results or states during process flow analysis, before the components are created.

Change Analyzer is available
It helps you to analyze the impact of changes due to upgrades, SAP patches or Custom development on a test, components or consolidated component 

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Features and Enhancements in SAP TAO 2.0 from SAP TAO 1.0

The SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization™ (SAP TAO ™) software streamlines the creation and maintenance of ERP business process testing. It helps Quality Analyst specialists to break down application into components. Assemble test cases through a simple interface using drag and drop components in Quality Center. Test script can be parameterized for flexible reuse. Maintained easily and inexpensively, even when screens, flows, or service packs change.

Features of SAP TAO ™ 1.0 version released in 2007:
Inspect: Captures the data in a screen or transaction and determines its validity. It enables you to create and maintain a list of transactions and screens.

Import/Export: Primarily runs in background mode to export and import data from the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization™ client to the SAP Quality Center.

Consolidator: Gathers all the objects and data in an SAP Quality Center test script and creates a single component.

Connect: Connection settings for SAP and Quality Center

Enhancements in SAP TAO ™ 2.0 versions released in 2009:
PFA (Process flow Analyzer): It records user interactions and the sequence of screens to execute a business process, in the SAP TAO ™ repository. It automates inspection and creation of the test components and a parameterized draft transition test case. It automatically creates the data table spreadsheet with the DT columns and values used during the recording process.

Repository: The SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization™ repository is a part of the SAP Solution Manger system and is used to store:
User interaction and sequence of the screens in a business process.
Information specific to SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization™ that cannot be retrieved by other tools.

Change Analyzer: It helps you to analyze the impact of changes due to upgrades, SAP patches or Custom development on a test, components or consolidated component.

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