u/Mister-Mehdzi

We run policy admin on SAP and have an s/4 move coming which means regression volume is about to triple. I got a quote from one of the big two and the licensing is a number my sponsor will not sign. ecatt covers some of it and is painful to maintain, and our custom transactions plus three bolt-on vendor guis mean a chunk of the estate isn't really SAP-shaped anyway, which is where scripted approaches keep falling over for us.

So i'm looking at whether anything outside the sap-specific vendors handles this. Tricentis and Worksoft both clearly work, that's not in question, it's cost and lock-in. Askui also came up because it drives whatever is on screen rather than binding to the sap scripting api, so the bolt-on guis stop being a special case, and the tasks are plain text files in the repo rather than a proprietary format. What i don't know is whether it holds up across an s/4 transition where a lot of screens change at once.

Has anyone run non-sap-specific tooling against a real sap estate through a migration, and did it survive?

I’m the face of my small business and that's not a branding choice, it's just that clients trust and buy from me. so the video that works for us is me talking, and the video that doesn't work is a polished stock presenter reading my script. i tried synthesia early on for a service explainer and it was well made and completely wrong, it looked like a corporate training module and the enquiries stopped.

What i actually want is my own face and voice, recorded properly once, then reused so i'm not setting up lights every tuesday. Heygen does custom avatars and the setup was more involved than i expected when i looked at it, and the free tier stock avatars are what most people end up with. Argil is built around the clone rather than treating it as an upgrade path, which sounds closer to what i need. i haven't committed because the failure mode here is a client thinking i faked a conversation with them, which would be worse than posting nothing.

For anyone who is personally the brand, did you go this route and how did clients react?

I’m the only writer at an industrial software company and i own 4 manuals covering our operator software. Our engineering team ships every 2-3 weeks and the UI moves often enough that i spend the first two days of every cycle reshooting screens, cropping, renumbering callouts, then chasing whatever i missed. One example I can remember during last quarter is when a customer sent support a screenshot of a dialog that hadn't existed in our docs for six months, which is how i found out about a release nobody mentioned to me (ridiculous i know).

I’ve got a snagit library and a naming convention and neither of those solves the actual problem, which is that i'm the only mechanism for noticing the product changed. What i'm trying to figure out is whether the screenshots can come out of something that already walks the software, rather than out of me. Scribe does this well if the thing you're documenting runs in a browser, and ours is a desktop app on windows, so that's out. I’ve seen teams script playwright to capture screens as part of the build, which works if there's a dev willing to own it and ours isn't. Askui also came up in a thread somewhere because the steps are written in plain markdown and the run leaves a screenshot per step behind, so the capture is a by-product of the automation rather than a separate job, though i don't know if that survives contact with a writer who doesn't code.

For anyone in a fast release cycle, is your screenshot capture automated at all? If so, what are you using for it? Thanks in advance!