By Nathan Dukes
Revelation Software Concepts (RSC) has launched Salt, a free application platform capable of providing SAP professionals a host of apps to make their work within SAP more productive.
The platform, launched last month at the Sapphire NOW Conference in Orlando, connects to the customer’s various SAP solution-based systems to provide a wealth of information and data via the Salt apps.
The initial collection of Salt apps will expand what team members can see and do when working on SAP solution-based systems via the native SAP GUI. RSC expects they will quickly become invaluable additions to a team’s working tool kit.
Initially, eight different apps are scheduled for the platform, ranging from an external version repository to a code-search facility and a full landscape comparison utility.
Also, any new additions to the Salt apps collection will be downloaded whenever the customer applies an update from the main Salt website.
RSC CEO and RSC founder David Drake said the new approach allows RSC to ‘remove many obstacles that companies face while adopting our software to solve many common issues’.
“We have found that user issues around managing infrastructures running SAP solutions tend to be common to all, so we set about creating a software solution to tackle these common issues,” Drake said.
Adam Cleversley, senior programmer at RSC described Salt as a toolset for understanding SAP systems.
“They tell me what changes have been made as of today, and lots of other useful information. How did the changes get there, who made them, how much stale code do we still have? …These are the kinds of questions Salt can answer,” he said.
Scheduled for release in early August, the plug-and-play Salt platform will come with an initial collection of apps and can be downloaded free of charge at www.saltapps.com.
Support and additional features are available under a paid monthly subscription model. Visit the website for a full list of options and apps available.
