Landscape Management comprises installing new systems and changing existing systems. Multiple groups are involved: Basis administrators handle the existing landscape. They provide information on the current landscape and implement updates, upgrades and new installations. The lines of business plan changes on a functional level. They evolve current business processes with new functions and capabilities finding new functions and communicate them to IT architects or basis administrators. Those plan the changes on a technical level. They need to define how to implement requested functions and check test effort and compatibility of changes.

SAP Solution Manager provides additional information supporting your landscape management processes: System recommendations give you the option to quickly and easily get a list of recommended SAP Notes for a technical system, which should be implemented in the system. This recommendation is calculated automatically and takes the current patch level of the selected system into account. You then get a recommendation for important SAP Notes to be implemented that is tailored to your systems.

The benefit of a central landscape description itself is transparency on all systems in your landscape. This avoids inconsistencies and related costs for fixing errors caused by them.