Transition to SAP Cloud ALM: Guidance for typical customer situations

You are on-premise-centric

You are using SAP Business Suite

You are using SAP Solution Manager for Implementation and Operations

You are planning (or in the process) of implementing SAP S/4HANA on-premise until 2028

You are on-premise-centric

You are using SAP S/4HANA on-premise

You are using SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service

• Use SAP Cloud ALM for operations and service
• Finish your SAP S/4HANA implementation with SAP Solution Manager, then transition to SAP Cloud ALM for implementation

A business unit plans to implement SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Other parts of the company use SAP Solution Manager to manage change and drive innovation in SAP Business Suite or intelligent enterprise

You are using SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service for the intelligent enterprise

• Use SAP Cloud ALM for operations and service
• Implement SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Cloud ALM, use this for upskilling
• Continue to use SAP Solution Manager to drive innovation and follow SAP Cloud ALM for implementations roadmap

You are on-premise-centric

You are using SAP Business Suite or SAP S/4HANA

You have invested in Solution Documentation, Test Suite and/or test automation

Massive amount of documents in KW

Automated test cases

You are using SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service for the intelligent enterprise

• Use SAP Cloud ALM for operations and service
• Wait until required functionality is available, continue to use SAP Solution Manager
• Documents from KW move to document mgmt. services (BTP / SharePoint / Google etc.)
• Test automation:
  • If the provider is integrated with SAP Cloud ALM, test cases need to be re-imported
  • If the provider is not integrated, test cases must be migrated to the provider first and then re-imported

You are in a regulated environment and/or have a complex ChaRM setup (i.e. two-tier landscape, Retrofit, digital signatures etc.)

You are using SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service for the intelligent enterprise

• Wait until required SAP Cloud ALM functionality is available, then evaluate transition (possibly supported by SAP or an SAP partner) - continuous  feature delivery for this capability is ongoing according to the product roadmap.

Operations of ABAP-based SAP products on-premise beyond 2027 (e.g. SAP ECC, SAP Business Suite, SAP BW)

Continued operations of ABAP-based SAP products on-premise beyond 2027 (e.g. SAP ECC, SAP Business Suite, SAP BW)

• Evaluate SAP Cloud ALM advantages over SAP Solution Manager
• Alternatively evaluate SAP Focused Run for Application Operations or move to service partner using SAP Focused Run

Long-term operations of non-ABAP / non-HANA products (e.g. SAP Business Objects, SAP Enterprise Portal etc.)

Continued operations of non-ABAP / non-HANA products (e.g. SAP Business Objects, SAP Enterprise Portal etc.)

• Evaluate SAP Focused Run for Application Operations, or move to service partner with SAP Focused Run
• Additionally, evaluate SAP Cloud ALM for Business Process Monitoring and Business Service Management

You are using a 3rd-party (non-SAP) tool for Application Lifecycle Management

You are using SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service for the intelligent enterprise

• Evaluate SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, operations and service
• Check API Business Hub for APIs available for data transfer to SAP Cloud ALM, and check 3rd-party software possible migration options
• If necessary, evaluate SAP Focused Run for advanced operations needs