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Revelation Software Concepts Pty Ltd (RSC) today released "Ten Questions to Ask When Deciding How to Manage Changes to SAP(R) Solution-Based Business Intelligence Systems," a white paper on evaluating candidate change management solutions for SAP-based business information systems. Many of the largest global enterprise systems have adopted the powerful SAP R/3(R) suite of enterprise applications to keep their information flowing, available and up to date, so changes to business information systems often affect multiple business-critical processes. The new RSC white paper discusses how to simplify the process of assessing potential benefits of value-added change management solutions for a particular organization. Key issues include the effective integration of a solution into the system, the relative simplicity and power of a solution's change approval and migration processes, and the time and cost savings it offers compared to alternative change solutions. The evaluation should also consider how a solution addresses accidental, parallel or untested changes, whether it complies with Sarbanes-Oxley corporate visibility mandates in U.S. markets, and whether the solution's resulting overall time and cost savings justify the cost of acquisition, installation and subsequent maintenance. "Ten Questions" is issued as a companion to "Issues in Change Management for SAP(R) Solutions: An RSC Guide," which addresses the technical challenges of ensuring that changes and updates flow smoothly and without disruption in extended SAP-based business information systems. "Ten Questions" and "An RSC Guide" both can be downloaded free of charge, in the widely readable Adobe PDF format, from http://www.rev-trac.com/whitepaper.asp .