SAP Cloud ALM for Operations
SAP Cloud ALM for Operations
SAP Cloud ALM for Operations
Key Features:
- Features, functions and processes for operating your cloud centric solution landscapes
- Having a central entry point to operate your complete SAP landscape running on different technologies.
Learn more from the Overview presentation (PDF) and the What's new in Q4/2020 (PDF).
How SAP Cloud ALM for operations can help in the governance of End-to-End Processes of the Intelligent Enterprise is explained in this video.
For further details, please check the SAP Cloud ALM for Operations - Expert Portal
Value Proposition
Ensure business continuity in your SAP landscape by monitoring and alerting - Increase operation efficiency by automating operational tasks - Avoid anomalies by proactive problem prediction.
SAP Cloud ALM for operations empowers customers to understand healthiness of SAP business solutions:
Provides full stack monitoring and alerting covering business processes, integration, users, applications, and healthiness of cloud services and systems
Acts as collaboration platform between LOB and IT
Allows to conduct root cause analysis on technical as well as on business process level
SAP Cloud ALM for operations enables customer to increase operation efficiency by automating corrective actions as well as regular operation tasks
SAP Cloud ALM for operations helps to predict anomalies in business process and application operation by event correlation and learning out of the collected data (AIOps)
SAP Cloud ALM for operations provides transparency regarding availability of business services including business downtimes, business events and business SLA's
Functional Scope
Available and Planned Scope in Detail
Core Capabilities
Business Process Monitoring
- Provides transparency on end-to-end business processes within a distributed and hybrid solution landscape
- Ensures smooth business operations without disruptions and increases the business process execution quality and performance
- Monitors processes' health and detect anomalies during process execution including drill down in business documents
- Alerts users directly on process disruptions and offers automated problem resolution via built-in operation flows
- Delivers pre-defined process content including auto-discovery of relevant metrics to be switched on
Integration & Exception Monitoring
- End-to-End monitoring by correlating single messages to end-to-end message flows across cloud services and systems
- Monitoring of integration related exceptions
- Support of peer-to-peer interfaces as well as orchestrated integration
- Closes gap between business and IT during problem resolution process (technical issue vs. business issue) by:
- Alerting to notify responsible persons in business and IT about discovered integration related problems
- Search and track single messages based on exposed business context attributes e.g. order numbers
- Operation automation to trigger operation flows context sensitively for automated correction of problems
Job & Automation Monitoring
- Job & Automation Monitoring ensures business operations without disruptions and increases the business process execution quality and performance:
- by monitoring job executions health and detection of anomalies during job execution
- by directly alerting both business and IT users on disruptions and exceptions
- by providing details at job execution level to enable fact based root cause analysis
- by reducing configuration effort by making use of historical execution information
- Job & Automation Monitoring is planned to be enhanced with operation flows to trigger corrective actions e.g. job restarts and job & automation analytics to enable trend analysis based on historical data
Real User & Performance Monitoring
- Real User & Performance Monitoring provides transparency regarding performance as experienced by end users as well as the utilization of business functionality
- Performance data is measured at frontend and server side to identify of root cause of performance problems (frontend, network, cloud service and/or on-prem system)
- Utilization of SAP Passport technology allows to correlate performance data measured at frontend, cloud service and/or system side
Business Service Management
- Business service as collection of technical services (cloud service tenants or system clients) to represent business functionality
- Definition of customer specific maintenance events at business service level
- Propagation of externally communicated maintenance, disruptions or degradation events e.g. as exposed by Cloud Availability Center from technical services to business services as resulting business up/down times
- Definition of service times based on service level agreements/ service contracts on business service level -> Measurement of actual availabilities at technical service level and consolidation to business service level -> Calculation of compliance to defined SLA's on business service level
- IT related events e.g. maintenance notification defined at business service level will be cascaded down to technical service level e.g. users of involved technical services will receive maintenance notification
Intelligent Event Processing
- Intelligent and unified processing of events coming from SAP Cloud ALM, other SAP sources or 3rd party senders (inbound unification)
- Centralized and simplified configuration for event handling and routing rules (outbound unification) e.g. usage of same communication rules for alerting & business service management
- Handling of events independently from Monitoring & Alerting, Event management focuses on Application & Business Process Operation events
- Provides foundation of intelligent correlation of events coming from different sources e.g. correlation of manually generated with automatically generated alert
Benefits
- Support for customers with cloud centric solution landscapes with an out-of-the-box, cloud native solution
- Central entry point to operate your complete SAP landscape running on different technologies
- Fast onboarding of your operations team
- SAP Cloud ALM for operations gives customers the power to detect problems including automated alert management
- Customers are empowered to understand the healthiness of their solution and the efficiency of their operation
- Provides end-to-end transparency for users, integration, applications, and business processes
- Detect anomalies, and enables both LoB and IT users to identify disruptions and react to them
- Intelligent and centralized configuration and processing of events from SAP Cloud ALM for operations.
- Transparency regarding availability of business services including business downtimes, business events and business SLA's.