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Transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Solution Manager is in mainstream maintenance until the end of 2027. SAP Cloud ALM is the Go-to ALM platform for all SAP customers. SAP recommends to complete the transition to SAP Cloud ALM before this date. 

SAP supports our customers with this transition! This page serves as a one-stop-shop for information about and resources for the transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM. 

You can already move to SAP Cloud ALM for operations and service. Move to SAP Cloud ALM for implementation at your own pace, once the required functionality is ready for you.

There is enough time to prepare and execute this transition. Start now!

Overview

  • SAP Cloud ALM delivers ALM for the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise, while offering foundational support for today's customer landscapes.
  • SAP Cloud ALM comes with lower cost of operation and maintenance, is easy to adopt and use, while providing innovative functionality.
  • SAP Solution Manager is in mainstream maintenance until the end of 2027. SAP recommends to complete the transition to SAP Cloud ALM before this date.
  • You can add SAP Focused Run to address advanced operations needs and to manage a significant on-premise footprint.

In a nutshell: SAP Cloud ALM is the Go-to ALM platform for all SAP customers.

Transition steps and recommended sequence

Switch to SAP Cloud ALM for service and operations now

  • Less customer effort for updates
  • Ease of use and consumption
  • Simplified monitoring without agents 
  • Additional monitoring use cases
  • SAP service delivery integrated

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Adopt SAP Cloud ALM for implementation at your own pace

  • Complete your move to SAP S/4HANA
  • More functionality for Testing, Deployment Management and Solution Documentation is planned for 2024
  • Advanced functionality for Deployment Management and Solution Documentation planned for later

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Add SAP Focused Run for advanced operations use cases

  • Dedicated system management required
  • High-volume application monitoring needed for large on-premise landscapes
  • Multiple customer enablement essential
  • Operation automation and cross use-case analytics embedded

Already an SAP Focused Run customer? See here for additional information.

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Guidance for typical customer situations

Find out about different customer situations and recommendations from SAP.

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The modularization of ALM

This table displays SAP Solution Manager functionality and where corresponding functionality either in SAP Cloud ALM or in other SAP services can be found.

More detailed functional descriptions can be found at the pages for implementation and operations.

Implementation

SAP Solution ManagerSAP Cloud ALMAdditional Information
Requirements ManagementRequirement Management[Learn more]
Project ManagementProject and Task Management[Learn more]
Process Management

Process Management

 

Documentation

 

Process Authoring

Can be extended with full SAP Signavio Process Manager**

 

Documents stored in external Document Management Service

 

[Learn more]

Custom Code ManagementCustom Code Clustering (planned)

Custom Code analytics in SAP for Me

 

[Learn more]

Test Suite

Test Management

 

Defect Management

Integration of Tricentis Test Automation for SAP

 

Can be extended with full Tricentis Test Suite**

 

[Learn more]

Change Control Management

Change Enablement

 

Release Management and Deployment Orchestration

 

[Learn more]

Quality Gate ManagementProject and Task ManagementComparable functionality planned to be incorporated in Project and Task Management*
IT Service Managementnot in scopeCan be provided by 3rd-party ITSM [Learn more]
Focused Buildvarious capabilitiesComparable functionality planned [learn more]

* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

** Separate licensing required

Operations

SAP Solution ManagerSAP Cloud ALMAdditional Information
System MonitoringHealth MonitoringTransition to Health Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM to provide basic system monitoring for ABAP-based on-premise systems. [Learn more] 
User Experience MonitoringSynthetic User MonitoringTransition to Synthetic User Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM to monitor HTTP-based end-user activities. [Learn more]
Integration MonitoringIntegration and Exception MonitoringTransition to Integration Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM to monitor and analyze the integration between cloud solutions from SAP and ABAP-based on-premise systems. [Learn more]
Business Intelligence Monitoringnot in scope[Learn more]
Job MonitoringJob and Automation MonitoringTransition to Job and Automation Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM to monitor and analyze job executions and automation tasks for cloud solutions from SAP and ABAP-based on-premise systems including SAP Business Warehouse. [Learn more]
Service Availability ManagementBusiness Service Management

Transition to Business Service Management to manage status events (disruption, degradation, maintenance, communication) originated by SAP or customers.

[Learn more]

Exception ManagementException MonitoringTransition to Exception Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM to monitor and analyze single exceptions for cloud solutions from SAP and ABAP-based on-premise systems. [Learn more]
Business Process MonitoringBusiness Process MonitoringTransition to Business Process Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM. It covers business process KPIs for cloud solutions from SAP, but also for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite. Business Process Improvement is not included. [Learn more]
Trace AnalysisReal User MonitoringTransition to Real User Monitoring. [Learn more]
Business Process Improvementnot in scopeAvailable in SAP Signavio Process Insights. [Learn more]
Job Managementpartially[Learn more] about Job Management in SAP Cloud ALM.
Data Consistency Managementnot planned[Learn more]
Configuration ValidationConfiguration and Security Analysis*Transition to Configuration and Security Analysis* in SAP Cloud ALM provides analysis and validation of configuration items like technical parameters, software versions and patch levels. [Learn more]
Technical AdministrationBusiness Service ManagementTransition to Business Service Management to manage status events (disruption, degradation, maintenance, communication) originated by SAP or customers. [Learn more]
Data Volume Managementnot plannedUse the DVM App in SAP for Me
Guided ProceduresOperation AutomationSAP Build [Learn more]
Cross-use-case analyticscustomer-specific analyticsTransition to customer-specific analytics based on analytics data exposed by the analytics APIs of SAP Cloud ALM. SAP Analytics Cloud as well as Grafana can be used as external analytics capabilities. [Learn more]

* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Additional ALM topics

SAP Solution ManagerSAP Cloud ALMAdditional Information
SAP EarlyWatch Alertnot plannedSAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace [Learn more]
Landscape ManagementLandscape ManagementLandscape management enables you to get an overview of your services, business services, and systems that you use for your cloud solutions .[Learn more]
System Recommendationsnot in scopeFunctionality available in the System Assistant [Learn more]
SAP Engagement and Service DeliveryService DeliveryTransition to Service Delivery to facilitate collaboration and transparency along the entire end-to-end SAP service delivery process. [Learn more]
   

Additional topics "outside" ALM

FunctionalitySAP Cloud ALMAdditional Information
SAP License Administration Workbench (LAW)not in scopeSAP LAW is an SAP basis functionality, not a specific SAP Solution Manager functionality, although many customers run LAW on their SAP Solution Manager system.
Central User Administration (CUA)not in scopeCUA is an SAP basis functionality, not a specific SAP Solution Manager functionality. If CUA is running on SAP Solution Manager, it needs to be moved to another system during transition to SAP Cloud ALM.
   

How SAP supports your transition to SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM

The readiness check helps you to analyze your current usage of SAP Solution Manager and provides recommendations for equivalent functionalities in SAP Cloud ALM.

 

Services for SAP Cloud ALM

SAP offers services which help you with your transition to SAP Cloud ALM.

 

Resources

AssetAccess
Presentation on transition to SAP Cloud ALMDownload PDF
SAP Cloud ALM RoadmapRoadmap Explorer
Usage rights details for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and SAP Focused RunALM usage rights page
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 mainstream maintenanceSAP Note 3255311
Support after end of mainstream maintenance or extended maintenanceSAP Note 52505