Munich, 27th January 2011 – Galileo Group AG, one of the leading providers of release, change & transport management solutions for SAP, has announced that the group’s revenue for the year 2010 shows a 30% increase over the previous year.This result means that the Galileo Group has significantly exceeded the industry's general growth forecast, and consequently Galileo has an outstanding foundation for the further development of its business activities in 2011.The increased income is rooted in the successful introduction of Release 3.5 of Conigma™ CCM. This new version provides significant improvements in the realm of automating SAP development with the focus on change, release and transport management. The new features include improved document administration, better overtaker analysis and simplified customization.Galileo’s IT Services sector has benefited from the rejuvenated business activities of clients in the service, insurance and automotive industries.
“Our Conigma™ software has enabled us to win over more significant clients, including a major Swiss bank,“ explains Malte Klassen, CEO of Galileo Group AG. “In addition to this, know-how transfer from our services department is providing valuable impulses for the new Conigma release we shall be launching in 2011.“
About Galileo Group AGRenowned blue-chip clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas – including BMW, MAN Postbank, Siemens, ThyssenKrupp and the Zürcher Kantonalbank – place their trust in the competence of the Galileo Group with its twin commercial departments of IT Services and Software.With its SAP® release, change & transport management software Conigma™, the group’s subsidiary Galileo Tools sees itself as a market leader in the industrialization of SAP operations. It has been proven that over 7% of SAP costs can be saved each year.In its other business sector, IT Services, Galileo places itself in the 2% of suppliers who have at their disposal both top expertise in the area of SAP Basis and also the supporting technologies required, such as Java/J2EE and .NET.More information can be found at www.galileo-group.de.
Conigma is a trademark of Galileo Tools GmbH and the Galileo Group AG. SAP, SAP logo, R/2, RIVA, R/3, SAP ArchiveLink, SAP Netweaver, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Business Workflow, WebFlow, SAP EarlyWatch, BAPI, SAPPHIRE, management Cockpit, mySAP.com Logo and mySAP.com are trade marks or registered trade marks of SAP AG in Germany and many other countries around the world. All other product names and brand names cited here are trade marks or registered trade marks which are the property of the relevant company or holder of the trade mark.
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Galileo Group AGPeter IhbePerchtinger Straße 681379 MunichGermanyTel : +49 (0)89 710463-60Fax : +49 (0)89 710463-88peter.ihbe@galileo-group.dehttp://www.galileo-group.de
Munich, 30th of July, 2010 - Galileo Tools GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of software solutions for SAP change-, release- and transport-management today announces that its Conigma CCM suite version 3.50 has been certified in July 2010 by SAP for “Powered by SAP NetWeaver”. Conigma CCM is a standard software solution to manage and automate the IT processes used for adapting, customizing SAP software and distributing resulting software changes.
Special focus of the certification of Conigma by SAP has been the functions
which are fulfilled by Conigma in an excellent way.
Conigma CCM allows customers to define and enforce standardized, audit-proof and well-documented processes for change and release management of SAP landscapes being used by developers, consultants and implementation partners. Conigma CCM supports synchronizing development and operational processes, independent of technologies used (ABAP™, JAVA, PI- and EP content) and completely automates transports of SAP changes across several system landscapes with many instances. Powerful reporting functionalities help ensure a consistent view about the current status and progress of business requests, change orders, releases planned and many other aspects, helping to guarantee a complete and current overview of all activities within an SAP environment at any time.
“Our Conigma CCM product enables organizations using SAP to achieve the highest level of efficiency with regard to their IT processes for managing changes, releases and updates of their SAP systems. Due to powerful authorization and workflow functionalities, a complete audit-trail and integrated reports, our customers also get a crucial tool to implement and support their IT compliance initiatives,” explains Josef Huber, General Manager at Galileo Tools GmbH in Munich. "Achieving the Powered by SAP NetWeaver certification for Conigma CCM again, ensures our prospects and customers that our solution can be implemented and deployed fast and efficiently without significant changes in the SAP infrastructure," added Huber.
About Galileo Tools GmbH
Galileo Tools GmbH, a subsidiary of the Galileo Group AG, is one of the leading providers of Change and Transport Management solutions for SAP®. The Conigma™ Suite integrates administration and processes for further developing, adapting and customizing SAP software seamlessly with existing IT support infrastructure, such as SAP procedures for allocating software (ABAP TMS and Java CMS). These results in significant rationalization potential based on the more efficient, automated development and change processes; in addition, IT compliance initiatives are given optimal support by means of wide-ranging workflow functionalities and the detailed recording of all procedural steps.The clients of Galileo Tools include LSV (Landwirtschaftliche Sozialversicherung), Postbank, Siemens AG and Zürcher Kantonalbank. Galileo Group AG may be found in the Internet under http://www.galileo-group.de.
Conigma is a trademark of Galileo Tools GmbH and the Galileo Group AG.
SAP, SAP logo, R/2, RIVA, R/3, SAP ArchiveLink, SAP Netweaver, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Business Workflow, WebFlow, SAP EarlyWatch, BAPI, SAPPHIRE, management Cockpit, mySAP.com Logo and mySAP.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and many other countries around the world. All other product names and brand names cited here are trademarks or registered trademarks which are the property of the relevant company or holder of the trade mark. Blue System Copy is a trademark of Empirius GmbH.
Galileo Tools GmbHJosef HuberPerchtinger Straße 681379 MunichGermanyTel : +49 (0)89 710463-66Fax : +49 (0)89 710463-88josef.huber@galileo-group.dehttp://www.galileo-group.de
Munich, 29th of June, 2010 - Galileo Tools GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of software solutions for SAP® change, release and transport management today announces the availability of version 2.1 of Conigma™ DEVSYNC. Focus of the new version 2.1 was a highly improved support for distributed tasks and roles during the process of synchronizing SAP systems which are typical in a larger organization. To achieve this objective, the following functionalities has been implemented:
Multi-User Support
In particular for larger SAP teams, it is now possible, that several developers are able to work in parallel on the objects, they are responsible for, if synchronization becomes necessary. The individual decisions how to deal with an object will be stored, but not yet built into a transport order, so there can be additional changes by other users. After finishing the decisions regarding synchronization for all objects, a final Conigma™ DEVSYNC run takes place, taking over all objects being marked for synchronization in one transport order.
Security
Introducing multi-user support required also an extension of the security model of Conigma™ DEVSYNC. The new SAP roles for Conigma™ DEVSYNC differentiate between developers who are allowed to work on objects, mark and store them for synchronization and the users, who are allowed to build and release the transport order for a synchronization run.
„Blacklist“ Functionality
Conigma™ DEVSYNC now offers a function to exclude specific objects, groups of objects or table entries from synchronization. For each source system a list may be defined, which is used to check for specific characteristics of an object like type, name, class. Objects matching one of the characteristics cannot be selected for synchronization, but the Conigma™ DEVSYNC analysis will be performed allowing to recognize whether such an object may lead to a conflict or requires synchronization. Each of the exclusions in the list may be documented and the users have access to this documentation via the graphical user interface.
„The new version of Conigma™ DEVSYNC, which since a couple of weeks is in productive use at pilot customers, has been extended particularly for the use by larger SAP teams. Now on the one hand synchronization maybe worked on by several developers in parallel, on the other hand the roles and responsibilities within a team are supported in an optimal way“, said Josef Huber, General Manager of Galileo Tools GmbH. „Conigma™ DEVSYNC enables the SAP users to save a lot of time and money by highly automating the process of synchronization and in parallel avoiding typical errors and their consequences.“
Munich, June 15, 2010 - Galileo Tools GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of software solutions for SAP® change, release and transport management announces, that Siemens Ltda. based in São Paulo / Brazil has decided to implement Conigma CCM. The integration of Conigma CCM with IMS, the Siemens helpdesk solution, results in a complete, highly automated and efficient incident-, change-, release and transport management environment for the SAP system landscapes of Siemens Ltda.
Significantly higher quality and faster implementation of changes combined with more transparency and lower IT costs as well as fulfilling the strict compliance requirements have been the main requirements regarding SAP change management of Siemens Brazil. The implementation of Conigma CCM, which will seamlessly manage the development of SAP changes and automate the transport process across the different SAP landscapes, will help Siemens Ltda. to make a big step forward to fulfill its mission.
“Using Conigma and leveraging its automation capabilities will eliminate a lot of currently manual activities, which often leads to mistakes, misunderstandings and delays in our SAP change and transport process,” said Andreas de la Camp, CIO at Siemens Brazil. “We expect to experience a huge quality improvement in the development of SAP changes as well as always oversee all development tasks and projects in the SAP space. This will enable us to much quicker to react to and fix bottlenecks and process weaknesses.”
„We are very pleased, that we been selected by Siemens Brazil. This is our first customer in Latin America and additionally increases our footprint in Siemens significantly,“ said Josef Huber, General Manager of Galileo Tools GmbH. „More and more companies with complex SAP landscapes recognize the need for highly automated change-, release and transport management processes to lower the cost-of-ownership of their SAP installation and use rare and expensive resources for more productive work.“
Munich, 5th of Mai 2010 – The Galileo Group AG draws extremely positive conclusions from its collaboration with the Plönzke Network so far - and announces an intensification of the cooperative effort.
The Ploenzke Network is a voluntary collaboration between Ploenzke Holding, its portfolio companies and other selected co-operative partners, all of whom have recorded outstanding achievements in their respective sectors. In their joint activities, both internal and external, the partners involved undertake to adhere to a fixed value system. Motivated by this common foundation and working in association with the network, the partners are able to attain excellent market positions in terms of performance and quality.
For the last year the Galileo Group AG has been working successfully with the partners of this network. One positive consequence has been an increase in the network's delivery capacity due to the achievement of the Galileo Group in the sphere of Java/J2EE software engineering. In return, the Plönzke Network is able to offer the clients of the Galileo Group a broad range of services, with the spectrum ranging from SAP implementations through software engineering to services in the host environment (BS2000 and MVS).
"In the context of an intensification of our collaborative activities, the clients of the Galileo Group will in future be presented with the joint services of the Plönzke Network in an even more accessible and transparent manner," explains Malte Klassen, CEO of the Galileo Group AG. "After all, the Ploenzke Network is a collaboration between consultancy firms with a total staff of almost 1000 employees which, as a single entity, would certainly be rated in the top half of the 10 leading medium-sized IT consultancy firms based in Germany, according to the current Luenendonk List." "The Ploenzke Network offers the agility of smaller, more intelligent units paired with the security and stability of larger enterprises," adds Klaus C. Ploenzke, since 1969 one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the German IT consultancy world and founder of the Ploenzke Network. "These values provide support for our clients’ competitive advantage, which is absolutely crucial in the current environment."
About Galileo Group AG
The Galileo Group AG and its subsidiary Galileo Tools GmbH form one of the most respected systems houses, with activities extending throughout Europe. In addition to SAP introduction and software engineering/software development services on the basis of modern technologies such as Java/J2EE and .NET, Galileo offers comprehensive personal sourcing solutions for IT consultants. In association with its subsidiary Galileo Tools GmbH, the Galileo Group AG is also one of the leading providers of Change and Transport Management solutions for SAP®. The Conigma™ suite developed for this purpose integrates administration and processes for further developing, adapting and customizing SAP software seamlessly with existing IT support infrastructure, such as SAP procedures for allocating software (ABAP TMS and Java CMS).The clients of Galileo Tools include companies such as E.ON, MAN, LSV (Landwirtschaftliche Sozialversicherung), Postbank, Siemens AG, the Züricher Kantonalbank in Switzerland and the General Accident Insurance Group in Austria. The Galileo Group may be found in the Internet under http://www.galileo-group.de.
Conigma is a trademark of Galileo Tools GmbH and the Galileo Group AG.SAP, SAP logo, R/2, RIVA, R/3, SAP ArchiveLink, SAP Netweaver, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Business Workflow, WebFlow, SAP EarlyWatch, BAPI, SAPPHIRE, management Cockpit, mySAP.com Logo and mySAP.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and many other countries around the world. All other product names and brand names cited here are trademarks or registered trademarks which are the property of the relevant company or holder of the trade mark.
Galileo Group AGPeter IhbePerchtinger Straße 681379 MunichGermanyTel : +49 (0)89 710463-60Fax : +49 (0)89 710463-88info@galileo-group.dehttp://www.galileo-group.de
Munich, April 7, 2010 - Galileo Tools GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of software solutions for SAP® change, release and transport management announces that Conigma CCM is now available in the latest version 3.5. The new version contains significant improvements in nearly all areas of documenting, controlling and automating the cost-intense IT processes for SAP release-, change- and transport management.
„Like with all earlier versions of Conigma, we have developed Conigma CCM version 3.5 in close cooperation with our clients and prospects focusing on areas of improvement, which provide the highest return for them. As IT budgets are still tight, automation as well as the elimination of sources of errors and unnecessary rework is yet highest priority for IT organizations“, said Josef Huber, General Manager at Galileo Tools GmbH. „We are convinced, that any organization running SAP and a well-defined, professional change management approach underlyed by Conigma, will experience significant cost reduction in conjunction with higher quality within a very short period of time.“
Conigma™ CCM Version 3.5In addition to many extensions and enhancements within the graphical user interface, Conigma now provides the following new functionalities.
Management of documentsFor describing bugs, the definition of new requirements, quality assurance procedures or release notes, frequently text documents, small presentations and screen shots contain important information, necessary for the IT staff working on SAP changes. With version 3.5 of Conigma such documents, which are typically related to a SAP change request, release or a bug, may be stored and managed directly in Conigma CCM without the need for an additional document management system.
Impact analysis of „overtakers“ on object levelSAP change orders are lists with R/3 objects being released, exported and needs to be imported into other SAP systems or clients. The change orders in the import queue of a SAP system are ordered strictly sequential using the release time as criteria.Importing a change order into SAP may be done in two different ways – “final import” or “preliminary import” (“overtaker”). If a user imports a change order, which is part of the import queue without importing all predecessors, such an import should be executed as a “preliminary import”, as deviations from the export sequence will lead to a configuration, different to the source system, resulting frequently in a mixture of code and customizing, which does not work.To solve this issue, all preliminary imports stay in the import queue and will be imported again with the following import jobs, until they can be imported “final”. Latest at the time, when all preliminary imports have been imported final, the target SAP system has reached a consistent configuration again.In particular, if SAP customers are using a release-oriented change approach, „overtakers“ are a very common issue leading over the time to a significantly higher volume of import jobs (as the “overtakers” needs to be imported again and again). As this high volume quite often cannot be processed in the time-slot available for an import job, customers just do no re-import the „overtakers“, which may cause severe problems.With Conigma Version 3.5, it is possible now to analyze on object level, which “overtaker” may create a collision and needs to be imported again. Executing this detailed analysis leads to a drastically reduced number of re-imports, enabling also customers with narrow time-slots for import jobs to deal with „overtakers“ in the correct way. Additionally the user may run a simulation of an import job to find out exactly, how many of the “preliminary imports” has to be imported again.
Munich, February 2, 2010 – Galileo Group AG announces that it has been selected for the task of consulting and improving the SAP basis operations segment of Project IS2001 Release 3 by the IT Center of the German Federal Association of Agricultural Insurance (Landwirtschafltiche Sozialversicherung / LSV). Within the framework of Project IS2001, LSV is re-implementing its entire application software in the sectors of agricultural trade associations, pension, health and nursing insurance, based on SAP NetWeaver. The two major previous SAP releases included important basic functionalities such as business partners and disbursements;: in the years 2010 and 2011, Release 3 will cover significant extensions, i.e. more BI features, document management and data exchange.
Covering the wide range of business processes will be achieved by a constantly growing number of SAP functions and products, which leads not only to a extremely wide spread of technological expertise, but also to an increasing overload of the SAP basis team. In order to resolve this challenges, an intensive, know-how transfer of the latest SAP technologies is required as well as the corresponding best practices (e.g. SAP release management and release deployment for comprehensive SAP in-house developments, BI change processes in the context of an overall change management process, system sizing, SAP BI performance analysis or upgrade strategies). In addition, a large number of customer specific developments for the automation of routine work in the sphere of SAP NetWeaver operation should help to reduce the pressure (i.e. better leveraging Solution Manager Monitoring and Service Desk functions).
“For several years the Galileo Group AG, with its Conigma™ Suite for SAP Release and Change Management and the SAP Transport automation, has been an important cornerstone of our successful IS2001 Project,” explains Wolfgang Pippert, Head of the SAP Basis tema of LSV. “Consequently I am particularly pleased that the Galileo Group AG has made the most advantageous offer for the present contract. This means we now have the opportunity to make full use of our consulting partner’s wide experience in daily practice with SAP NetWeaver operation. After all, the functionality of Conigma™ has its foundation in this wide-ranging practical experience.”
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