Bridging Jira and SAP Solution Manager

At AirPlus, Jira and SAP Solution Manager played two very different but equally critical roles in the delivery process.

• Jira was the central tool for agile execution, managing user stories, tasks, assignments, and day to day progress of development teams.
  
  

• SAP Solution Manager was the backbone for SAP delivery governance - managing Work Packages (WP), Work Items (WI), documentation, and the creation of transports required by ABAP developers.
  
  

However, the two systems operated completely independently. User stories were managed in Jira, while delivery objects had to be manually recreated in Solution Manager to enable development and transport management. This disconnect introduced delays, inconsistencies, and unnecessary administrative effort.

Codemine was engaged to connect these two worlds.

Codemine designed and implemented a tailored integration that linked Jira user stories directly with SAP Solution Manager Work Packages and Work Items. The integration respected the purpose of each system: Jira remained the control center for agile work, while Solution Manager remained the system of record for SAP delivery and transports.

As part of the engagement, Codemine introduced an enhancement in Jira that allowed users to trigger the creation of a Work Package and Work Item in Solution Manager directly from Jira. With a single action, delivery objects were created, prefilled with the correct structure and data, and immediately ready for ABAP development and transport creation.

The result was a seamless delivery flow: agile planning in Jira, governed execution in Solution Manager.