Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

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 SAP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy

SAP Cloud ALM

• enables customers to adopt innovation at scale.
• helps to keep the business running by protecting business continuity.
• serves as anchor point and accelerator for customer transformations.
• is included in maintenance and subscription.

SAP Focused Run

• empowers SAP-centric service providers to streamline operations across customers.
• enables large customers with extensive on-premise landscapes to run at their best.
• requires an own license.

SAP Cloud ALM integrates seamlessly with SAP Focused Run.

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 mainstream maintenance ends Dec. 31, 2027.

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SAP ALM Platforms – Planned Product Availability Strategy
SAP Solution Manager follows the maintenance strategy of the SAP Business Suite
▪ Extended maintenance for process management, test suite, change & release management and ITSM in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is
automatically included in the optional extended maintenance for the SAP Business Suite 7
▪ SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is supported beyond 2030 – in customer specific maintenance*
▪ There are no plans for further releases after SAP Solution Manager 7.2

SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Focused Run are not dependent on the SAP Business Suite, allowing mainstream
maintenance beyond 2030. SAP plans no new on-premise products in the ALM portfolio.

SAP Solution Manager, SAP Focused Run End of mainstream maintenance End of extended maintenance for
in mainstream maintenance for SAP Solution Manager SAP Solution Manager

Now End of 2027 End of 2030

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 - Operations Customer specific maintenance

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 – Implementation & ITSM Extended maintenance Customer specific maintenance

SAP Focused Run

SAP Cloud ALM

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Functionality
SAP Cloud ALM Friends of
Tricentis or
SAP Cloud ALM 3rd-party

Process
Management
SAP Solution Manager Project
Management
Test
Management
3rd-party
ITSM

Change
Project Process Test Operations Deployment
Control
Management Management Management Automation Management
Management SAP BTP or
3rd-party

Embedde Business
Customer
d Support Analytics Process
ITSM Embedded Business
Integration Operations Built-In
Alert SAP Services Process
Support SAP
Management Monitoring
Integration S/4HANA
User & Root-
& Application Analytics &
Performance Cause
Exception Monitoring Intelligence
Monitoring Analysis
Monitoring
Business Integration &
Service Event & Guided Service Exception
System Management SAP
Availability Alert Procedure Monitoring
Management Signavio
Management Management Framework

User &
Custom Service Health
Data Volume Performance
Code Delivery Monitoring Job & Maintenance
Management Monitoring Planner &
Management Workspace Automation System
Monitoring Assistant

SAP
Analytics
Cloud or
3rd-party

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From SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

All SAP Solution Manager customers should plan to move to SAP Cloud ALM.

Adopt SAP Cloud ALM for service and Adopt SAP Cloud ALM for implementation at your
operations NOW own pace
• Less customer effort for updates • Complete your move to SAP S/4HANA

• Ease of use and consumption • More functionality for Testing, Deployment

Management and Solution Documentation is
• Simplified monitoring without agents
planned according to product roadmap
• Additional monitoring use cases
• Advanced functionality for Deployment
• SAP service delivery integrated Management and Solution Documentation planned
for later
Use SAP Cloud ALM for cloud projects
NOW
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This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Enhance your operations needs with SAP Focused Run

SAP Focused Run complements SAP Cloud ALM for advanced operations use cases.

SAP Solution Manager

Reasons to add SAP Focused Run:

• Dedicated system management required
• Large on-premise landscapes and high-volume application monitoring

• Multiple customer enablement

• Embedded operation automation & cross use-case analytics
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Transition recommendations
Transition to SAP Cloud ALM – high level overview

Readiness Check Project Setup Project Execution Extension

• Identify your actual • Use SAP Activate • Configure use cases in • Extend your SAP Cloud
SolMan usage Methodology for project SAP Cloud ALM based ALM usage based on
• Learn about planning and setup on project plan business requirements
corresponding SAP • Use readiness check • Perform data transfer and outcomes of the
Cloud ALM capabilities results, align with step-wise readiness check
• Identify additional use landscape planning and • Validate transferred
cases in SAP Cloud ALM create project plan data (manually)
• Find use cases that • Prepare use cases which
moved “outside” SAP require data transition
Cloud ALM • Define your transition
• Identify use cases which strategy
require data transition
and review data

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What can you do NOW, when…

What can you do NOW, when… Next steps (“NOW”)

… you only use SAP Solution Manager for Monitoring & Operations, Understand the different operations use cases in SAP Cloud
but not for Solution Documentation or Testing, or Change Control? ALM, Request your own tenant, and start using SAP Cloud ALM
for Operations

… your company is starting a cloud implementation project (i.e. SAP

S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors)? Set up SAP Cloud ALM and use it for the implementation project

… you have invested in Solution Documentation and/or Test Suite in Continue to use SAP Solution Manager, follow the SAP Cloud
SAP Solution Manager 7.2? ALM roadmap for migration tools & best practices, and evaluate
SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

… you are using Change Request Management (ChaRM) and/or are Continue to use SAP Solution Manager, follow the SAP Cloud
in a regulated environment? ALM roadmap for migration tools & best practices, and evaluate
SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

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

Move to SAP Cloud ALM, if there is no intense system

management necessary
• Cloud services
• Small set of ABAP based on-prem systems
• Outsourced system management

Add SAP Focused Run, if system management plays a

major role
• Customers with advanced needs to operate hybrid
landscapes
• Significant set and variety of on-prem systems
• Hosting and/or AMS business

Monitoring/operations capabilities do not require data migration!

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Transition of implementation capabilities

SAP Solution Manager SAP Cloud ALM Capability Data transfer aspects
Capability

Process Management Process Management / Selective data transfer planned for *

Documentation / Authoring • Business process hierarchy
• Documents
• Diagrams
• Libraries
• Custom processes

Test Suite Test Management Selective data transfer planned for test
cases, test steps*

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Selective Data Transfer

The Selective Data Transfer covers the migration of relevant data from SAP Solution
Manager to SAP Cloud ALM.

It allows to define a tailored scope with the flexibility to modify the data in one step. The
approach allows to combine redesign of ALM processes with retaining important data
aligned to secure your investments.

Customers should use the SAP Cloud ALM Readiness Check to identify their functional
requirements and define priorities while aligning these to their core project planning
(scope, time and budget).

To give customer guidance a SAP Cloud ALM transition roadmap is provided based on
SAP Activate Methodology.

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Selective Data Transfer for SAP Cloud ALM

Roadmap for Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Workstream: Data Management

Scope Features Select data Adjust (Optional) Simulate & Correct Import

• Business process hierarchy

SAP Cloud ALM • Documents
Readiness Check • Libraries
• Custom processes
Legacy • Test Cases

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This is the current state of future vision and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Change Control Management transition

In Change Control Management, data migration is not provided.

Your transition in this capability depends on your footprint / actual usage of Change Request
Management (“ChaRM”) in SAP Solution Manager.

▪ You are not using ChaRM → Deployment Management in SAP Cloud ALM might improve your
software logistics and help stabilizing your environment. As setup and onboarding efforts are
fairly low, this might be a quick win!

▪ You are using ChaRM → make yourself familiar with deployment management in SAP Cloud
ALM, follow the SAP Cloud ALM roadmap and move when all you need is there!

▪ You are using ChaRM in regulated environments / complex landscapes → Follow the SAP
Cloud ALM roadmap and wait, until functionality and best practices are available.

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Guidance and Support for the Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

SAP supports you with

• SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM
• Transition methodology to SAP Cloud ALM

• Roadmap and Implementation Services

• Tools for selected data transfer of solution

documentation and test cases*
• APIs for data transfer and 3rd-party integration

• Guidance for typical customer situations

• All you need to know in the SAP Support Portal

Use your transition to SAP Cloud ALM to rethink and simplify your ALM processes

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SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM
SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM
Process Steps

Explore Results Prepare the Transition

• Select an analysis from the SAP • Use the SAP Readiness Check results
Readiness Check launch page to learn more about the possible transition
• (Optionally) Adjust the automated scenarios to SAP Cloud ALM
collected usage result
• Review the high-level results
• (Optional) Generate a downloadable
document as an offline record Transfer Analysis Data
• Download analysis data once
collectors are
• Review and (if required) modify
the collected analysis data
Execute Collectors
• Visit the SAP Readiness Check launch page
• Schedule the analysis collector jobs
• Create a new analysis and upload data
• Monitor the progress of the analysis jobs

Prepare SAP Solution Manager System

• Implement analysis collectors (via SAP note or ST-PI
Support Package)
• Transport the collectors to system being analyzed (i.e.
production or a recent copy of production)
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Planning a Transition Project
SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Solution Description of scoped

Manager usage SAP Cloud ALM capabilities
& planning

Comparison of capabilities
in SAP Solution Manager
and SAP Cloud ALM
Equivalent Scope of
Capabilities in Transition
SAP Cloud ALM Project Other SAP ALM products
(“friends of ALM”)

Services
On top
capabilities in
SAP Cloud ALM Migration concepts

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https://me.sap.com/readinesscheck
Transition Center in SAP Support Portal

Your one-stop spot for all the information

around the transition to SAP Cloud ALM!

▪ General information

▪ Functional comparison and transition

guidance

▪ Transition recommendations and strategy

▪ Additional resources, videos and documents

Transition Center

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Transition to SAP Cloud ALM – Key Take aways

1) Prepare and learn about SAP Cloud ALM

2) Use the SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM as a starting point

3) Use the SAP Activate Methodology “Transition to SAP Cloud ALM” for planning and setup

4) Assess your as-is ALM footprint, estimate your to-be ALM processes

5) Get familiar with SAP Cloud ALM

6) Evaluate service offerings from SAP or partners to support your transition

7) Plan your move - not as one big project, but as a step-by-step based approach!

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Where to Find More Information

Product information Additional information

▪ SAP Cloud ALM overview ▪ Documentation
▪ SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation ▪ Supported Solutions
▪ SAP Cloud ALM for Operations ▪ SAP Cloud ALM usage rights
▪ SAP Cloud ALM for Service ▪ Product Road Map

Onboarding Training
▪ How to request SAP Cloud ALM? ▪ Learning Journey: SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation
▪ How to set up SAP Cloud ALM? ▪ Learning Journey: SAP Cloud ALM for Operations
▪ OpenSAP Training: Hire to Retire – Strategy,
Stay current Implementation, and Operations
▪ Events ▪ Expert Guided Implementation service (register)
▪ Newsletter ▪ Mission “Onboarding and first steps” (start)
▪ Community

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SAP Continuous Influence for SAP Cloud ALM
Link to Link to

Continuous Influence for Continuous Influence for

SAP Cloud ALM SAP Cloud ALM
for Implementation for Operations

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