Your situation todayYour situation 2028

You are on-premise-centric

You are using SAP Business Suite 7

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 todayYour 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 7 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 todayYour situation 2028

You are on-premise-centric

You are using SAP Business Suite 7 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 todayYour 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 todayYour situation 2028

Operations of ABAP-based SAP products on-premise beyond 2027 (e.g. SAP ECC, SAP Business Suite 7, SAP BW)

Continued operations of ABAP-based SAP products on-premise beyond 2027 (e.g. SAP ECC, SAP Business Suite 7, 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 todayYour 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 todayYour 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