SAP Basis Administration Handbook, NetWeaver Edition

Effects of Outsourcing Projects and Performance Issues

In the last decade SAP development work has been outsourced to global teams. This trend has resulted in code work being shipped to different development centers in the world and assembled and quality-tested at the implementation site when all the pieces are ready. Because the code is developed by different teams distributed at different locations in the world, it is very important for the quality control development lead at the implementation site to perform a series of checks before the code goes to the production system. Often the code may work very well during initial roll-outs but may not perform well during subsequent roll-outs because of increased data volumes. Including a volume or ...