Transition to SAP Cloud ALM: Guidance for typical customer situations

On this page you will find typical customer situations and guidance for the transition to SAP Cloud ALM.

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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
Recommended next steps 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

Your situation today

Your situation 2028

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

Recommended next steps

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

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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
Recommended next steps 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

Your situation today

Your situation 2028

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

Recommended next steps

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

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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
Recommended next steps 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

Your situation today

Your situation 2028

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

Recommended next steps

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

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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
Recommended next steps 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.

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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)
Recommended next steps 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

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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.)
Recommended next steps 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

Your situation today	Your situation 2028
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
Recommended next steps 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