Ensuring Extensibility

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe how SAP Cloud ALM ensures controlled extensibility.

Extensibility

The image presents a structured overview of The five guiding principles, detailing on the left a description emphasizing five clean core principles that ensure business-critical systems remain agile, cost-efficient, and innovation-ready by adopting standard processes with stable extensions and integrations, while on the right, it visually lists the principles as numbered, color-coded items focusing on business processes, extensibility, data standards, integration reliability, and operational efficiency, collectively aiming to help customers adapt flexibly to evolving business needs.

Main Aspects

The main aspects are:

  • Simplify the upgrade process by decoupling extensions, enabling faster adoption of innovation.
  • Gain greater flexibility by reducing technical debt and increasing transparency.
  • Shorten time-to-market by technically separating concept from deployment.
  • Support all development needs by choosing from the full SAP extensibility spectrum — on-stack or side-by-side with SAP BTP, from low-code to pro-code.

SAP Cloud ALM: Key Capabilities and Benefits

SAP Cloud ALM provides:

  • Integration of Cloud TMS and BTP CI/CD DevOps services to consistently manage ABAP and BTP extensions.
  • Capabilities for central documentation of extensions.
  • Test Management capabilities for manual and automated testing of extensions.
  • Integration with SAP Readiness Check to track the resolution of custom code findings in SAP Cloud ALM.
  • Capabilities to manage an agile build process for extensions.
  • iCCM service.
  • Scope definition and instrumentation for different monitoring use cases to get transparency for BTP extensions:
    • Health Monitoring to monitor technical KPIs.
    • Real User Monitoring/Synthetic User Monitoring to monitor end user behavior from performance and the error perspective.
    • Exception Monitoring to monitor customer-specific errors.
    • Job and Automation Monitoring to SAP Job Scheduling Service based jobs and SAP Build Process Automation based automations and processes.
    • Business Process Monitoring to monitor customer-specific Business KPIs.
    • Setup of Integration Monitoring, Configuration, and Security Analysis and other use cases for standard BTP SaaS Services.

Learning

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