SAP Cloud ALM is designed to support ALM for the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise, including SAP S/4HANA (all deployments).
SAP Cloud ALM is attractive for SAP Solution Manager customers: cost of operation and maintenance, functionality, ease of use and adoption, foundational support for today’s customer landscape (SAP Business Suite, SAP BW, SAP PI/PO), transition support.
SAP Cloud ALM is the next-generation ALM platform for SAP customers. SAP Cloud ALM is a new, independent product line. SAP recommends SAP Cloud ALM as the go-to platform for ALM.
SAP Focused Run addresses SAP-centric service providers and hybrid customers with advanced needs and/or significant on-premise footprint. It can be used complementary with SAP Cloud ALM.
SAP ALM Platforms - Planned Product Availability Strategy
The next slide shows the planned product availability strategy:

SAP Solution Manager follows the maintenance strategy of the SAP Business Suite
- Extended maintenance for process management, test suite, change and 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.
Note
Note
*) See restrictions in SAP Note 52505, 3053725 and 3255311
For further information, visit support.sap.com/ALM.
Watch the video to learn about the benefits of adopting SAP Cloud ALM for Service and Operations: