I'm very pleased to announce the general availability of LiveCompare 2.2.  Followers of this blog will have a good idea of what's new and what's been improved.  New product orders will be fulfilled with this release.  Customers should start getting their upgrade notices in the next couple of days.

The release cover letter reads:

May 2009,

Thank you for choosing IntelliCorp's Intelligent Impact Analysis software for SAP lifecycle management.  LiveCompare is specially designed to help teams responsible for implementing, maintaining, upgrading, and supporting SAP® solutions reduce cost, eliminate risk and improve efficiency.  More than 35% of the Fortune 500 companies that run SAP use LiveCompare to reduce their TCO by up to 30%.

As John Capron, IBM Server Division says:  "LiveCompare is a huge step forward for improving SAP ALM.  Its templates answer 80%+ of our lifecycle questions and when we customize them further with LiveCompare Studio we increase that to 100%.  No other solution has empowered us with such valuable SAP system information, and that has meant significant time, cost and resource savings for IBM."

With 200+ templates "in-the-box", an easy-to-use template designer and powerful SAP analytics engine, LiveCompare stands ready to support any and every lifecycle activity you face today and tomorrow.  You have questions, LiveCompare has the answers!

Existing customers will find many improvements in version 2.2 including new support for:

• SAP Business Warehouse. LiveCompare's BW support brings powerful cross-system, cross-version object comparison and intelligent impact analysis capabilities to the BW environment. Want to know why reports are different between QAS and PRD? Want to know the impact of changing an InfoObject? Want to compare data between BW and ERP? LiveCompare has the answers.
• Java. Customers ask the same questions of Java as they do of the ABAP stack: What's changing? What's the impact of change? LiveCompare's fully integrated Java impact analysis functionality answers these questions automatically.

LiveCompare 2.2 includes many other improvements.  Templates have been enhanced, output databases and reports refined.  The LiveCompare Studio user interface has been upgraded to simplify the personalization and assembly of templates.  New short-cuts and lookup features streamline the editing process.

Join iShare (http://ishare.intellicorp.com/cs/) and become part of a growing community of LiveCompare users working together to share knowledge on how best to solve real-world lifecycle challenges with LiveCompare.

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