SAP Cloud ALM is an offering for application lifecycle management (ALM). It’s intended for customers who use SAP solutions but do no want to use their own ALM on-premise platform to manage those solutions. It supports the implementation and operation of cloud-based and hybrid business solutions. It is a ready-to-use, native cloud solution that serves as the central hub for managing your SAP landscape, offering guided implementation and automated operations. It is included in your cloud subscription containing Enterprise Support, cloud edition and in SAP Enterprise Support. It supports all types of implementation and change projects, including the conversion from ECC to SAP S/4HANA.
The following figure summarizes the four core pillars of SAP Cloud ALM and how it supports implementation, operations, and service.
SAP Cloud ALM manages the customer’s solution: Designing, building, testing, deploying and operating the intelligent enterprise.
- Manage all project activities
- Based on the SAP Activate methodology with template roadmaps for agile implementation projects
- Extended by customers’ own tasks and user stories
- Integrated planning and reporting
- Design the to-be solution
- Start with Best Practice Content to run Fit-2-Standard workshops
- Create own processes with integrated authoring capabilities
- Collect requirements as an initial backlog
- Upload process diagrams from SAP Signavio
- Ensure Quality
- Manage all test from user acceptance to regression
- Manual testing with test step-based approach
- Integration of automatic execution engines
- Manage Successful Deployment & Go-Live
- Plan releases and orchestrate consistent deployment to production
- Enable changes and provide traceability and audit trails
SAP Cloud ALM: Architecture View for Implementation
The following figure depicts a comprehensive view of the SAP Cloud ALM infrastructure.
How Each Dimension of Clean Core is Supported by SAP Cloud ALM
The following image shows how each SAP Cloud ALM dimension ensures a project is clean core compliant.
