Frequently Asked Questions

Panaya Frequently Asked Questions

General Questions about Panaya

Q. What is Panaya and who can it help?

A. Panaya identifies the impact of customization changes to your SAP system through automated analysis of your SAP code and customizations. Panaya’s impact analysis identifies functional changes to your system before they are put into production. It can be used during implementation, maintenance and upgrades. Panaya is designed to support SAP professionals and ERP managers during the complex processes of maintaining and customizing SAP systems.

Q. What problems does Panaya solve?

A. Panaya reduces the risks and the costs involved in developing, maintaining and using your SAP system by providing an enhanced insight into the SAP system, and the far-reaching implications of changes.

Q. What are the benefits of using Panaya?

A. Panaya enables an in-depth cross-application overview of SAP systems and thus enhances SAP Implementer system comprehension. With Panaya, SAP professionals, IT departments, system integrators and business consultants can enhance their grasp of scope of customization changes across the various SAP modules and can validate the precision of the customization. Panaya helps limit customization errors, prevent system downtime, enable efficient test scoping, accelerate time to market, and reduce the cost of implementing, maintaining, and upgrading SAP systems.

SAP professionals use Panaya to complete familiar SAP upgrades in less time, eliminate errors, gain a better understanding of the consequences of your customization efforts, reduce extensive QA processes, focus on the business ramifications rather than technical problems, and ultimately, increase productivity.

Project managers use Panaya to reduce time to market, guarantee increased quality, allow junior implementers to tackle projects previously reserved for more senior staff, and assess the performance quality of other team members.

CIO/SAP managers use Panaya to reduce risk, become more responsive to customer requirements, and achieve improved customer satisfaction.

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Q. What does "Customization Impact Analysis" mean?

A. Customization of the SAP system naturally has an immediate impact on business process behavior. Panaya’s impact analysis identifies functional changes to your system before they are put into production and reveals which transactions are affected as a result of these changes. The impact results are displayed in detailed resolution on the Panaya client.

Q. How do I run impact analysis on my own change requests?

A. The Panaya Export Change Request Tool exports change request information from the customer's SAP system to the Panaya client in order to run impact analysis on your customization request.

Q. Can Panaya analyze custom code?

A. Yes. Panaya can analyze any ABAP code regardless of its source.

Q. Will Panaya affect my SAP system?

A. No. Panaya is non-intrusive. It monitors but does not make any changes to your system.

Q. Can Panaya analyze my customer code (e.g. Z programs and user exits) and customizations?

A. Yes, Panaya analyzes the customer code and customer specific customizations.

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