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 an independent new product line. SAP recommends SAP Cloud ALM as 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 to SAP Cloud ALM.
SAP ALM Platforms - Planned Product Availability Strategy
This is the current state of planning and can be changed by SAP at any time.
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
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.Note
*) See restrictions in SAP Note 52505, 3053725 and 3255311
For further information, visit support.sap.com/ALM.
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 and cross use-case analytics.