While preparing for my supporting role in Ken Thompson's ASUG2012 presentation I was looking at his LiveModel designed role-based SAP security model. There's a report in LiveModel that runs directly against the repository and outputs an Excel...

We have just released an update to LiveCompare. All LiveCompare 2.6 users should upgrade. For more details see: http://ishare.intellicorp.com/cs/support/b/support/archive/2012/05/03/livecompare-2-6-ga-refresh-build-378.aspx

I'm taking LiveCompare through the IBM " Ready for Rational " certification programme. Following a technical review of the integration, I've made a core change to how the Rational Quality Manager (RQM) "server" is identified...

LiveCompare 2.6 is now shipping. Customers will get their upgrade notices next week. Here's the release cover letter: March 2012. Thank you for choosing LiveCompare™, IntelliCorp's application lifecycle management software for SAP® applications...

There's just a week to go before the release of LiveCompare 2.6. I'll use this post to recap what's new and improved in LiveCompare 2.6. Templates Upgrade The upgrade workflows are now easier to run if you don't have access to the production...

I recently used my Countdown to LiveCompare blog series to highlight the work we're doing to integrate LiveCompare with LiveModel. In that post I covered creating LiveCapture raw data sets based on a LiveCompare dataset. The idea is that you might...

The first phase of the LiveCompare/IBM Rational Quality Manager integration handles test asset identification and highlighting gaps based on the output of a LiveCompare intelligent impact analysis. The second phase is now ready: aggregate all the identified...

This is the 5 th in my series of blog posts counting down to the release of LiveCompare 2.6. The previous four posts are here: week 1 , week 2 , week 3 and week 4 . This week's post covers a range of improvements from across the product. Web Forms...

This is the fourth in my weekly series of blog posts counting down to the release of LiveCompare 2.6. So far we've covered BW and dynamic function call intelligent impact analysis , new administration features and our new ABAP quality analysis action...

This is the third in a series of weekly posts looking at the upcoming LiveCompare 2.6 release. The first post covered improvements to LiveCompare's unique intelligent impact analysis, namely new support for BW systems and dynamic function calls. The...

You may have seen the announcement that IBM is reselling IntelliCorp's LiveCapture for SAP Solution Manager . If you're a Gartner client there are pieces of research that call-out the use of this software as key components of IBM Rational System...

The latest Inside LiveCompare guide is now available for download from: http://ishare.intellicorp.com/cs/support/m/mediagallery/1138.aspx Inside LiveCompare is all about getting you from using the standard LiveCompare templates to assembling your own...

This is the second in a series of weekly posts counting down to the release of LiveCompare 2.6. You'll find the first post here . This week I'm going to look at some of the smaller changes that make up the release. Let's start with the new...

The QCTestDesignAssistant integration WGI has been updated (2012.02.12) to filter illegal characters from test plan names. Illegal in this context means characters that are not permitted in XML. The WGI uses XML to communicate with LiveCompare. Certain...

This is the first in a series of weekly posts that will cover the new and improved functionality of the soon-to-be-released LiveCompare version 2.6. LiveCompare 2.6 is scheduled for release on March 23, 2012. I'll start the series this week by describing...

The LiveCompare/HP Quality Center integration WGIs have been updated. Two changes: (1) The test plan is scanned for tcode mnemonic references (2) The WGI will skip unrecognized field names rather than stop and report an error Download the latest integration...

The LiveModel metamodel defines the object types, relation types, attribute types and diagram types available to BDL models. The metamodel is stored in several server-side configuration files: OBJECT_TYPE.XML, RELATION_TYPE.XML, ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.XML and...

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The feedback from the first users of the LiveCompare/HP Quality Center integration WGI components is in. An excellent suggestion is to make it possible to replicate the test plan subject tree in the test lab module. The rational being that HPQC users...

After a bleak drive to Birmingham from Bristol troubled with fog patches and average speed cameras (only the UK would settle for 'average' speed cameras. I bet the ones in Sweden are at least 'above average') we're finally here and...

LiveCompare 2.5 introduced the web form interface: an alternative interface that hides the workflow model behind a simple HTML form. The web form interface is designed for users that need access to LiveCompare's powerful SAP analytics but don't...

The 'Schedule Run' command lets you set a workflow's execution time to some point in the future and, optionally, repeatedly trigger the execution every day, week or monthly. The workflow is run once at when triggered. There is no way to repeat...

The latest LiveCompare educiational video is now public on the intellicorptube youtube channel: http://youtu.be/q1Y8iKOrdlg?hd=1 This video covers the many LiveCompare analyses assembled specifically for HCM users.

Vaults – a key component of the LiveCompare Time Machine functionality – have been enhanced for the next version of LiveCompare. In this blog post, Howard Hunter explains how the new Get Vault Data action works and how you use it to easily...

LiveCompare 2.5.2 is now shipping. Headlining this release are: ABAP Code Analysis Web Forms Security Templates Details on these and other improvements may be found in this What's New in LiveCompare 2.5.2 post. Here's the release cover letter...