The Future of ALM

Marc Thier
SVP Application Lifecycle Management
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The Application Lifecycle Management Product Portfolio of SAP

Three strategic ALM solutions to match customer reality.

All three ALM solutions are independent offerings with no plans for feature parity.

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Business Transformation Suite Wins
Application Lifecyle Management as integration engine for Business Transformation included in RISE with SAP

• Business and Data

Transformation

• Best Practice Content Build • Test preparation

• Fit2Standard Workshops • Manual testing
• Requirements • Test analytics & automation
• Documentation • Defect management

Business Process Management Application Testing Solutions

• Process Modeling As-Is
Application • Enterprise Continuous Testing
Software Test
• Customer Journey Modeling To-Be Solution Lifecycle Orchestration • Load and Performance Testing
• Process Intelligence and Mining Management • Change Impact Analysis
• Process Collaboration Hub • Data Integrity

Operate

Analytics & SAP Support Data Lake

All stakeholders on the same page

SAP understands your transformation and

proactively supports you

One methodology and tool chain, one process hierarchy, best practices,
E2E traceability and proactive support
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Business Process Management and Integrated Enterprise Testing
Siloes without a Business Transformation Suite

Design Test
Business Process Management Application Testing Solutions
• Process Modeling • Enterprise Continuous Testing
• Customer Journey Modeling • Load and Performance Testing
• Process Intelligence and Mining • Change Impact Analysis
• Process Collaboration Hub

SAP Enterprise Support

• Proactive services and support

• Automated risk analysis
• Business continuity at low TCO
• SAP understands your solution
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Looking back … at SAP SolEd 2018 in Heidelberg

Three years ago, we lauched

SAP Cloud ALM in Heidelberg
We delivered according to the roadmap
communicated with daily deployment
We see great momentum in the market
from customers as well as partners

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SAP Cloud ALM – Recent enhancements and outlook

SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation SAP Cloud ALM for Operations
▪ Recent enhancements ▪ Recent enhancements
– Integration of test automation tool – Integration & Exception Monitoring for SAP Ariba
– Business process authoring & versioning – Business Process Monitoring for SAP SuccessFactors
– Agile project management – Business Service Management (incl. integration of
– Gantt-Chart in project management SAP Cloud Availability Center events)
– Enhanced Analytics and open APIs
– Integration of deployment providers (ABAP Transports)
▪ Next steps
▪ Next steps – Health Monitoring for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private ed.
– More supported solutions (SAP S/4HANA private cloud – Integration & Exception Monitoring for RISE with SAP,
and on prem, SAP Success Factors, SAP Ariba, SAP modular ERP and SAP Customer Experience solutions
Fieldglass) – Enabling of SAP Integrated Business Planning
– Support for Partner Content (multiple use cases)
– Integration of deployment providers (Cloud TMS)

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 This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations – Content roadmap

Currently available Planned for Q4 2021 Planned for 2022
Business SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP Business Suite SAP SuccessFactors Further KPI‘s for all editions
Process SAP S/4HANA PCE SAP SuccessFactors (further KPI‘s) of SAP S/4HANA and SAP
SAP S/4HANA Business Suite
Monitoring
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP SuccessFactors SAP SuccessFactors Employee SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP S/4HANA PCE SAP Ariba Central Payroll SAP Logistics Business Network
Integration & SAP S/4HANA SAP Concur SAP SuccessFactors (Data SAP BTP CF
SAP Business Suite SAP Fieldglass Replication monitoring)
Exception SAP Marketing Cloud SAP Central Asset Management SAP Integrated Business Planning
Monitoring SAP Sales & Service Cloud SAP Field Service Management SAP Event Mesh
SAP Integration Suite (CI) SAP Central Order SAP Business ByDesign
SAP BTP NEO SAP Master Data Integration

User & SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP Business Suite SAP SuccessFactors Employee SAP Sales & Service Cloud
SAP S/4HANA PCE SAP Marketing Cloud Central Payroll SAP Analytics Cloud
Performance SAP S/4HANA SAP Integrated Business SAP BTP NEO and ABAP SAP BTP CF
Monitoring Planning

Job & SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP Marketing Cloud SAP Business Workflow (ABAP) SAP Data Privacy Management
SAP S/4HANA PCE SAP Intelligent RPA SAP BTP ABAP SAP Resource Management
Automation SAP S/4HANA SAP Integrated Business SAP SuccessFactors Employee SAP Business Warehouse
Monitoring SAP Business Suite Planning Central Payroll

SAP Cloud ALM SAP BTP NEO and CF SAP API Management SAP BTP ABAP
Health SAP Intelligent RPA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Monitoring SAP Integration Suite (CI) SAP S/4HANA PCE SAP HANA Cloud
SAP Business Suite
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SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation – Content roadmap
Currently available Planned until end of 2021 2022

Task Management SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Ed. SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Ed.
– SAP Activate SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Ed. SAP Ariba Network
Roadmap SAP Fieldglass
SAP SuccessFactors

SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Ed.

Process SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Ed.
SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Ed.
Management –
Best Practice SAP SuccessFactors
Content SAP Ariba Network
SAP Fieldglass

Test Automation
Integration & SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Ed.*
Delivery of test SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Ed.
SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Ed. *
cases

Transport
mechanism & SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Ed.*
Integration of SAP BTP (Cloud TMS) SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Ed.
SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Ed.*
deployment
providers

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Embrace Application Lifecycle Management as a Partner

Extend
Implement and extend ALM,
Embed
integrate into 3rd-party solutions
Use ALM for implementation &
▪ APIs and API Business Hub
operations and integrate with own
▪ Joint Go-to-market via SAP Store
delivery infrastructure
Endorse ▪ Cloud native development best practices
▪ Enablement, Certification & Recognition for SAP BTP
Position ALM value and promote usage
▪ Enable authoring of partner content
(process, task, test, operations)
▪ Roll out material
▪ APIs to integrate ALM into partner delivery
▪ Test and Demo environment
infrastructure
▪ Joint Go to Market

Partner Edge Build

Partner Edge Run

Partner Service

Partner Edge Sell

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Extensibility Using APIs for SAP Cloud ALM
API Catalog

Attachment Alerts
Upload and link documents Receive, push alerts
Implementation
Automation
API Integrate automation tool
Test Management Operations API
Synchronize test components
Metrics
Read, push Metrics
Test Automation
Trigger automatic test, IT Events
Retrieve results Synchronize system events (downtime ...)

Process
Exchange process, scopes

API hub Landscape

Task/Requirements
Exchange project/task information

Analytics Generic API

CI / CD
Trigger deployment
Resource Notifications
Retrieve deployment results

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 SAP Cloud ALM Fueled by Data-Driven Innovation

Customer-owned

Service Planning
Service
Infrastructure
Concur Service Delivery Cloud
Built-In Support

Ariba
SAP Proactive Support Support
Cloud ALM
SAP S/4HANA Infrastructure
Ticketing
Artificial
Intelligence Data Lake
SuccessFactors

Provisioning
Cloud
Customers learn from each other
Operations
• Intelligent Service Delivery Monitoring Infrastructure
SAP for Me
• Service & Support Automation
• Recommend solution adoption
• Predictive, personalized support
• Project risk assessment
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• System Anomaly Prediction
ALM Knowledge Resources

Get Started Learn how to Stay connected

Open SAP Trainings for SAP Cloud ALM How-to SAP Cloud ALM videos Learn more
• SAP Cloud ALM - in a Nutshell • Join our regular What’s New webinars
Self-paced course, duration 1 week on the SAP Learning Hub
• Accelerate Cloud Implementations Order and set-up SAP Cloud ALM​
with SAP Cloud ALM Stay up-to-date
•
Self-paced course, duration 4 weeks
SAP Road Map Explorer
• Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud with Learn how to run implementation
SAP Central Business Configuration projects • What’s New section in the SAP Help Portal
Self-paced course, duration 7 weeks • Join our monthly ALM Community Call
• Operating Cloud Centric Solutions See how to configure and use
with SAP Cloud ALM operations
Coming soon, duration 3 weeks & exam

Demo Options
• Recorded Demos in ALM Media Center
• Live Demos
• Internet Demo Systems (public)
• Private Demo Systems (private)

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SAP Solution Manager

Strategic methodology and tool-set for 620+

top SAP S/4HANA transition projects world-wide

Robust and mature solution

Open for requirements and continuous improvement
with SAP Customer Connection 2021

Continuous investment into security & accessibility

Strategic ALM platform with mainstream maintenance

until 2027 and further maintenance options afterwards

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Transition to SAP Cloud ALM? Find your tipping point

Public Cloud SAP Cloud ALM

tomorrow

More cloud
Private Cloud Consolidated landscapes
Fit-to-standard
today
Extensions on SAP Cloud Platform
On-premise
SAP Solution Manager

Individual ALM Standardized ALM

Cloud is a reality for the vast majority of our SAP S/4HANA customers.

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SAP S/4HANA: the right fit for every organization

ONE Data Model • ONE Semantic • ONE User Experience

As a Service As a Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP S/4HANA

private edition on premise

Complete, modern, SaaS ERP Cloud value, traditional flexibility & full scope Total control and individualization

Our strategic choice for companies Designed to provide innovation and Innovative, intelligent ERP for
ready to embrace the future of ERP cloud value while allowing customers customers that require maximum
with a new implementation and to retain their investments by control of their ERP system
predefined processes converting their existing system(s)

with existing in own

IaaS partnerships data centers

Public cloud Private cloud Private cloud On premise

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Recommendations for Customers moving to the Cloud - 2021

SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Cloud, SAP Business Suite
(on-premise
(public cloud) private edition
with service provider)

Conversion /
n/a
Transition
SAP Solution Manager
or SAP Solution Manager
SAP Cloud ALM*
Implementation

SAP Cloud ALM

Operations SAP Cloud ALM SAP Cloud ALM

* Evaluate SAP Cloud ALM for available and upcoming functions

Service providers can monitor the customer landscapes centrally with SAP Focused Run

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Aspects of the transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

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Functionality

SAP Solution Manager

Change
Project Process Test
Control
Management Management Management
Management

Embedded Business
Customer
Support Analytics Process
ITSM
Integration Operations

Integration
User & Root-
& Application
Performance Cause
Exception Monitoring
Monitoring Analysis
Monitoring

Service Event & Guided

System
Availability Alert Procedure
Management
Management Management Framework

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Functionality
SAP Cloud ALM

Process
Management

SAP Solution Manager Project

Management
Test
Management

Change Change
Project Process Test Operation
Control Control
Management Management Management Automation
Management Management

Analytics &
Embedded Business Intelligence
Customer
Support Analytics Process
ITSM Embedded Business
Integration Operations
Alert Process
Management Monitoring
Integration
User & Root-
& Application Built-In
Performance Cause
Exception Monitoring Support
Monitoring Analysis
Monitoring
Business Integration &
Service Event & Guided Service Exception
System
Availability Alert Procedure Management Monitoring
Management
Management Management Framework

System & User &

Health Performance
Monitoring Application Monitoring
Monitoring

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Functionality
SAP Cloud ALM Friends of
Tricentis or
SAP Cloud ALM 3rd-party

Process
Management

SAP Solution Manager Project

Management
Test
Management
SolMan or
3rd-party

Change Change
Project Process Test Operation
Control Control
Management Management Management Automation
Management Management BTP or
3rd-party
Analytics &
Embedded Business Intelligence
Customer
Support Analytics Process
ITSM Embedded Business
Integration Operations
Alert Process
Management Monitoring SAP
Integration S/4HANA
User & Root-
& Application Built-In
Performance Cause
Exception Monitoring Support
Monitoring Analysis
Monitoring
Business Integration &
Service Event & Guided Service Exception
System Signavio
Availability Alert Procedure Management Monitoring
Management and BPI
Management Management Framework

System & User &

Health Performance SAP
Monitoring Application Monitoring Maintenan
Monitoring ce
Planner

SAP
Analytics
Cloud or
3rd-party

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Recommended ALM Solution per Landscape
Based on Content Availability

SAP Solution Manager SAP Cloud ALM

SAP SAP
Non-HANA S/4HANA S/4HANA
Data Bases on-premise Cloud
SAP
Business
Fieldglass
Technology
Platform
SAP SAP
SAP Business Ariba
Business
PO/ PI* Suite
Objects

SAP
Commerce …
Cloud
SAP
SAP Success
Business
J2EE/ Portal Factors
Warehouse

*) Not yet integrated in Integration Monitoring of SAP Cloud ALM.

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Architecture

Simplified architecture without agents and other

managing components
SAP SaaS solution with no installation
and maintenance effort for customers
Daily deployment, bi-weekly feature releases
Open for own content and extensions
Connectivity to SAP Solution Manager via generic
APIs but no productized integration

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 Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Timeline for transition New implementation Go-Live and adopt

SAP Cloud ALM Readiness Check Request new tenant SAP Cloud ALM Launch check
Transfer data selectively for
SAP Cloud ALM Roadmap Service
build, e.g. process content
EGI for SAP Cloud ALM

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Key Takeaways

Go for SAP Cloud ALM Add SAP Focused Run Stay on SAP Solution Manager
Cloud implementation Outsource on-premise Protect investments
application operations to internal Individualized ALM
Operation of cloud, SAP S/4HANA
or external service provider
and SAP Business Suite ALM for on-premise landscapes with
extensive custom extensions
No maintenance effort, agent-less
Finish your SAP S/4HANA implementation

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