May 26, 2021
•1 minute read
SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager is the application lifecycle management platform that SAP organizations have relied on to implement, monitor, test, and govern their SAP landscapes for more than two decades. From change request management and system monitoring to business process documentation and integrated testing, it sits at the operational core of complex SAP environments. With mainstream maintenance ending in 2027, organizations now face a critical decision: extract maximum value from the platform while planning an orderly transition to SAP Cloud ALM and its cloud-native successors.
What Is SAP Solution Manager?
SAP Solution Manager is an ALM platform centralizing tools for implementing and operating SAP systems across on-premise and hybrid environments. Its capabilities span Change Request Management, Application Operations, Solution Testing, Business Process Documentation, and Access Control. It integrates with SAP Signavio for process modeling, Tricentis for automated testing, and SAP Enable Now for learning management. More than 12,400 organizations were running the platform productively as of early 2023, relying on it for system monitoring, EarlyWatch Alerts, and configuration validation across SAP landscapes of all sizes.
SAP Solution Manager is the application lifecycle management platform that SAP organizations have relied on to implement, monitor, test, and govern their SAP landscapes for more than two decades. From change request management and system monitoring to business process documentation and integrated testing, it sits at the operational core of complex SAP environments. With mainstream maintenance ending in 2027, organizations now face a critical decision: extract maximum value from the platform while planning an orderly transition to SAP Cloud ALM and its cloud-native successors.
What Is SAP Solution Manager?
SAP Solution Manager is an ALM platform centralizing tools for implementing and operating SAP systems across on-premise and hybrid environments. Its capabilities span Change Request Management, Application Operations, Solution Testing, Business Process Documentation, and Access Control. It integrates with SAP Signavio for process modeling, Tricentis for automated testing, and SAP Enable Now for learning management. More than 12,400 organizations were running the platform productively as of early 2023, relying on it for system monitoring, EarlyWatch Alerts, and configuration validation across SAP landscapes of all sizes.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
Goodyear: 65% Performance Gain Across 350-Plus SAP Instances
Goodyear manages more than 350 SAP system instances spanning 48 manufacturing facilities. Upgrading to SAP Solution Manager 7.2 delivered a 65% RFC performance improvement, eliminated third-party process modeling tools, and enabled a weekend go-live without operational disruption. SAPinsider published this case study.
STA Technologies: Bridging ITSM Gaps as SolMan Approaches End of Life
SAP Cloud ALM does not include IT Service Management, a core SolMan capability for incident and change management. STA Technologies’ SAP-certified ITSM Connector replicates the SolMan experience in SAP GUI and Fiori, routing tickets to ServiceNow, Jira, or 4me by transaction code or module, SAPinsider reported.
ReleaseOwl: Planning the Post-SolMan Change Management Transition
With SAP Solution Manager’s mainstream maintenance ending in 2027 and extended maintenance stretching only to 2030, organizations need a defined migration path for change and release management. ReleaseOwl positions itself as a future-proof alternative for organizations evaluating options beyond SolMan. SAPinsider covered the transition planning framework.
SA Power Networks: Six-Capability SAP Solution Manager Deployment
SA Power Networks deployed System Monitoring, EarlyWatch Alerts, Configuration Validation, System Recommendations, Data Volume Management, and Change Request Management for its S/4HANA ISU environment. The utility demonstrates how regulated organizations extract full ALM value from SolMan before transitioning to SAP Cloud ALM. SAPinsider featured the deployment.
SAP Solution Manager Private Cloud Edition: Continuity for RISE Customers
RISE customers can deploy Solution Manager Private Cloud Edition at no license cost via the SAP Cloud Appliance Library on Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. The Full version supports agent deployment to managed systems and Layer Seven Security’s Cybersecurity Extension for SAP. SAPinsider covered the option.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
Technology Leaders: Strategic Agenda for 2026
SAPinsider benchmark research found 70% of technology leaders identify operational efficiency and cost reduction as their top priority for 2026. The report also warns that deprioritizing cybersecurity during rapid ERP transformations is a critical risk, directly relevant to organizations managing SolMan transitions while simultaneously running SAP S/4HANA migrations.
ERP Migration and Transformation 2026
SAPinsider research shows 55% of organizations have deployed SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, with 34% having fully transitioned. As the 2027 maintenance deadline accelerates migration timelines, organizations running SAP Solution Manager must integrate ALM transition planning into their broader S/4HANA programs rather than treat it as a separate post-migration workstream.
RISE with SAP 2025
SAPinsider research of 122 SAP community members found legacy SAP ECC use dropped below 50% for the first time in 2025. With 73% of organizations at some stage of cloud ERP transition, ALM platform decisions tied to SAP Solution Manager are active program requirements for the majority of SAP customers.
Application Lifecycle Management Strategy and RoadmapJoin us for a session that introduces the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio, including SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Run and more. Explore the roadmaps and key advice to match the right ALM solution for your organization.
Attend this session to :
-Learn about the Application Lifecycle Management portfolio offerings of SAP
-Understand the relationship between SAP Solution Manager and SAP Cloud ALM
-Identify who benefits most from SAP Focused Run
-Know how to find the right ALM solution for your company
Application Lifecycle Management: Meet-the-ExpertIs your Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy on track and ready for today’s cloud and hybrid solutions and tomorrow’s SAP – the intelligent suite of integrated applications? Join us in this session to meet with SAP Product Management for Application Lifecycle Management. Explore the benefits and advantages of SAP’s end-to-end ALM offerings: SAP Solution Manager, SAP Focused Run, and SAP Cloud ALM.
Attend this session to:
-Learn about the Application Lifecycle Management portfolio offerings
-Discuss your Application Lifecycle Management questions in an interactive environment
-Obtain feedback and guidance for your specific Application Lifecycle Management roadmap
May 26, 2021
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What’s New with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS12, Focused Build and Focused Insights SP07Join us in the session that celebrates the launch of the latest new features and key capabilities for SAP Solution 7.2 SPS12, Focused Build SP07, and Focused Insights SP07. Attend this session to: Hear from our experts on highlights in this support-pack-stack release. Know the key highlights of SPS12 for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Get overview of SP07 for Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Identify the features and best practices with Focused Insights SP07 for SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
May 26, 2021
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SAP Solution Manager 7.2: Solution Documentation 101Attend this session if you use or planning to use solution documentation to document, maintain, and enhance your business processes. Solution documentation has been revamped in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and is still the starting point/prerequisite to use key functionalities like Business Process Monitoring, Test Management and Impact Analysis for example. We will to review the changes, dive into the new business process library, and learn how to document, model, and release your business processes and updates in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Attend this comprehensive session to: Gain an overview of the concept of Solution Documentation and gather arguments why your organization needs a comprehensive business blueprint and what needs to be considered to initially establish and maintain it over time Understand solution documentation concepts, such as solution, branch, site, logical component groups and libraries, and get recommendations around the solution documentation life cycle Get real-world advice to integrated modules such as test management, change impact analysis, and business process monitoring Learn how you can set up your solution documentation initially and how to keep your solution documentation up to data over time Hear about lessons learned, project considerations, standards and best practices to fully leverage SAP Solution Manager 7.2
May 12, 2021
•1 minute read
Build Powerful Dashboards with Focused Insight for SAP Solution ManagerLearn how to deliver valuable information about your IT landscape in a clear and concise way with Focused Insight. Gain an understanding of the available dashboard models and how to leverage them. Understand your IT landscape better with Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and trends using metrics collected from SAP Solution Manager.
Attend this session to:
- Learn how to improve technical monitoring of your IT landscape and leverage partners and other resources to identify issues quicker
- Understand your productive IT landscape better with customizable dashboards models
- Find out the requirements to run Focused Insight 2.0 on Solution Manager 7.2
Oct 20, 2020
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Simplifying the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Solution ExtensionsSAP customers know that technology never stands still. They want continuous innovation without disruption, but it’s difficult for them to manage and maintain relationships with multiple software vendors. Customers that want to innovate and take their business performance to the next level expect SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise solutions to address their complete requirements. When customers move […]
Mar 12, 2019
•2 minute read
Goodyear Keeps the Wheels Rolling with SAP Solution Manager
For the past 120 years, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has been at the forefront of a continuously changing mobility industry. It has achieved this by leading with innovation in its products and services for customers, as well as in its internal systems and processes. Following this commitment, the company recently updated its system landscapes by expanding its SAP footprint. SAP system monitoring and change management processes have become progressively important to Goodyear – resulting in an increasing trend in working with SAP Solution Manager. With a goal of implementing better, easier, and faster software tools and processes – and answering SAP system users’ call for improved system performance and usability – the business decided to upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Learn how the upgrade provided Goodyear benefits such as improved efficiency and resource allocation, enhanced visual representation, and a less restrictive content documentation structure.
Oct 25, 2018
•10 minute read
Become a Best Run Business with SAP Solution Extensions
Learn how SAP Solutions Extensions complement your existing on-premise, hybrid, or cloud-based SAP software. SAP offers more than 90 solutions that your organization can use to resolve specific line-of-business or industry issues.
Apr 30, 2018
•1 minute read
SAP Solution Manager 7.2: New Features, Adoption, and How to Maximize Value EssentialsPanelist: John Krakowski, SAP Sponsor: Basis & SAP Administration 2018 SAP Solution Manager product manager, John Krakowski answered reader questions surrounding the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 release, from best practices for upgrading or installing a new system, to what new capabilities have been added and how to best utilize them to accelerate and maximize IT […]
Apr 1, 2018
•10 minute read
Get More Insight into an SAP Customizing Request and See How to Release It for TransportLearn some useful tips on how to better organize your customizing requests and how to release a customizing request for transportation from a development server to a quality assurance or production server. Key Concept SAP provides a customizing request so that changes in standard SAP software customization or settings can be recorded and moved to […]
May 18, 2017
•12 minute read
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