Presenting SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation in an Overview

SAP Cloud ALM for implementation provides the harmonized implementation for the intelligent enterprise, covering all relevant SAP solutions for cloud-centric customers. It provides:

• Harmonized implementation across SAP cloud solutions.
• Built-in transparency about implementation progress.
• Faster time-to-value through task-driven implementation based on SAP Activate.
• Comprehensive workspace for fit-to-standard workshops with SAP Standard and custom content.
• Ensuring quality in projects with integrated manual and automatic testing.
• Full audit trail and traceability with integrated deployment orchestration.
• Instantaneously available.

How SAP Cloud ALM supports project implementations: After fast onboarding of your project team by e-mail invitation through the project manager, you can start the implementation immediately.

SAP Cloud ALM supports a comprehensive range of implementation activities, including:

• Designing business processes.
• Building the configuration.
• Testing the quality.
• Deploying to production.

Core functionality of SAP Cloud ALM for implementation:

Design: Onboarding, Project Setup, and Fit-to-Standard Execution:

• Invite users and assign them to your SAP Activate Roles and Teams.
• Structure your project timelines with Phases, Sprints, and Milestones.
• Select SAP Activate Methodology Roadmap per SAP Product and benefit from SAP Best Practice Content and Intelligent Enterprise Scenarios.
• Manage your Fit-to-Standard Workshops in SAP Cloud ALM.
• Create own Processes with integrated process modeling capabilities.

Build: Project Management and Project Execution:

• Manage your project using agile methodologies with Sprints, User Stories, and Story Points.
• Consume methodology tasks with accelerators from SAP Activate roadmaps.
• Visualize dependencies in a Gantt-Chart View.
• Break down Requirements in User Stories and Tasks.
• Distribute work using subtasks and assign to other teams or project members.
• Track project and solution readiness using integrated analytics.

Test: Test Planning & Orchestration and Test Execution:

• Prepare your Tests for Manual and Automated Test Cases.
• Leverage SAP delivered standard Test Cases.
• Prepare Tests on Process based Requirements.
• Plan and structure your tests execution using Test Plans.
• Execute manual, step-based test cases.
• Integration of Test Automation providers - SAP S/4HANA Test Automation Tool, Tricentis Test Automation, Open API for other test automation providers.
• Manage defects in Test Execution.

Deploy: Change Enablement and Deployment Orchestration

• Document all software changes.
• Ensure traceability and audit trails.
• Deliver software using features across solution and project landscape.
• Plan your deployments using deployment plans and releases.
• To orchestrate different deployment mechanisms and ensure consistent software delivery to production.

This architectural diagram offers a comprehensive view of the SAP Cloud ALM infrastructure.

Implementation Content

• Provide Training and Consulting Services for SAP Cloud ALM for the customer base.
• Support customers with basic setup, connectivity, and use case implementation.
• Be an agile methodology and tool coach for implementation projects.
• Support the move from SAP Solution Manager or third party solutions over to SAP Cloud ALM.

Third Party Integration

• Integrate SAP Cloud ALM in existing customer and partner tools.
• Leverage Open APIs in SAP Business Accelerator Hub.
• Available APIs:
  • Projects
  • Tasks
  • Process Scope
  • Custom Process
  • Analytics
  • Test Automation
  • Documents
  • Resource Changes
  • Event Situations
  • Business Service Management and many more…

Capability Extension

• Extend SAP Cloud ALM capabilities for Implementation and Operations and innovate on top of SAP ALM core capabilities.
• Offer your own extensions of SAP Cloud ALM in SAP store and make it available for all SAP Cloud ALM Customer and Partner.
• Discuss with us your opportunities with SAP Cloud ALM Partner Whitespaces.

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A user can use the GenAI assistant to create documents, tables of content, and contexts. For example, create a Process Design Document for the SAP Best Practice process "S/4HANA J62 Asset Accounting" 2308.

It can be enhanced with sources/embeddings from Activate, Process Navigator, requirements, meeting minutes, and so on.

To understand the value of SAP Cloud ALM and how you can get quickly up to speed, see the adoption use cases. These predefined use cases help you to quickly adopt SAP Cloud ALM based on typical customer scenarios.

This figure illustrates the step-by-step and end-to-end process flow that is used and detailed in the following exercises.

Go to Roadmaps SAP ​and search for SAP Cloud ALM to get up-to-date roadmaps with links to more information and demos.

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