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​​​​SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 48

​SAP Cloud ALM continues to evolve with updates that sharpen accuracy, boost usability, and deepen cross-platform consistency. This week’s release brings smarter system scans in SAP Business Transformation Center, clearer navigation and structure in RISE with SAP Methodology, stronger identity and access management in Administration, and practical productivity boosts across Implementation and Operations. 

​Together, these enhancements streamline daily work, reduce manual effort, and give teams more reliable insight and control across their transformation and operations landscape.​ 

SAP Business Transformation Center – Scoping

This week’s update improves migration reliability by extending system scans to include currency conversion tables, helping ensure financial data stays accurate and up to date during the move to SAP S/4HANA. 

Currency Conversion Customizing Tables Now Included in System Scans

The system scan in SAP Business Transformation Center now detects the TCURR currency conversion customizing table, ensuring that the latest exchange rate data from the SAP ERP source system can be considered during migration. This enhancement helps maintain an accurate and up-to-date currency conversion process in the SAP S/4HANA target system while reducing manual post-migration maintenance. 

By default, TCURR is set to Out of Scope, but users can review and adjust this in the Select Scanned Tables app to decide whether exchange rate data should be included as part of the migration scope. 

TL;DR: 

TCURR (currency conversion) is now detected in system scans, allowing teams to optionally include up-to-date exchange rate data in the migration scope. 

RISE with SAP Methodology – System View Enhancements

This week’s updates sharpen the clarity and usability of the RISE with SAP Methodology area. With a redesigned System View experience and improved naming consistency on the launchpad, navigating clean core KPIs and methodology content becomes more structured and intuitive – helping teams focus on insight, not interface. 

Launchpad Page Renamed

The RISE with SAP launchpad page has been renamed to RISE with SAP Methodology. 

This rename better reflects the broader scope of guidance, structure, and lifecycle support delivered through the RISE methodology. 

TL;DR: 

The launchpad page is now called RISE with SAP Methodology, aligning with the overarching transformation framework. 

Tab View Introduced in the System View Dashboard 

A new tab-based layout is now available in the System View dashboard, making clean core monitoring more intuitive and structured. 

Instead of scrolling through multiple KPIs, users can switch directly between clean core dimensions using dedicated tabs – allowing faster navigation and clearer insights. 

TL;DR: 

A new tab view makes it easier to jump directly to the clean core KPI category you want to analyze. 

Operations – Job & Automation Monitoring, Configuration & Security Analysis, Business Process Monitoring

The latest updates in the Operations area focus on improving visibility, consistency, and control across all monitoring disciplines. From clearer job notifications to stronger access restrictions and more reusable event configurations, these enhancements help operations teams respond faster, analyze more effectively, and manage complex landscapes with greater confidence. Whether it’s refining event handling, tightening security, or extending monitoring insights, updates continue to strengthen SAP Cloud ALM as a central hub for stable and proactive operations. 

Execution Information in Notification Emails for Job & Automation Monitoring Alerts

Notification emails in Job & Automation Monitoring have been streamlined for easier readability. 

All execution-related details – run information, executed steps, and exceptions – are now consolidated into a single Execution Information table. 

Previously, this information was split across three separate sections, making emails longer and harder to scan. With the new unified format, operational teams can assess job outcomes more quickly and with less clutter. 

TL;DR: 

Execution details are now combined into one clean table in job/automation notification emails for faster insight. 

Access Control Enabled for Configuration & Security Analysis

Access Control is now enforced for both Configuration & Security Analysis – Data Stores and Configuration & Security Analysis – Validation apps. 

Users can only view configuration and compliance data for the systems and services explicitly assigned to them in the Landscape Management Access Control List. 

This enhancement strengthens data protection, ensures principle-of-least-privilege access, and aligns Configuration & Security Analysis with access control standards already used in other Operations apps. 

TL;DR: 

Configuration & Security Analysis now respects Access Control Lists – users only see landscape objects they are authorized for. 

Reuse Actions, Import Structures, and Improve Event Visibility in Business Process Monitoring

Business Process Monitoring receives several enhancements that streamline event handling, improve process reuse, and strengthen operational transparency. 

Event Action Variants 

Event actions can now be saved as reusable event action variants, allowing teams to apply the same action setup across multiple KPIs or when configuring events in other apps. Variants can be created and centrally managed in the Intelligent Event Processing app, reducing repetitive configuration work and ensuring consistency.

Import Process Hierarchy Nodes 

Existing business process structures from the Process Hierarchy app can now be imported directly into Business Process Monitoring. Imported nodes behave like any custom process and can immediately be enriched with KPIs. 

Note: Only up to three hierarchy levels are supported – deeper hierarchies are flattened upon import. 

Notifications for Updated Event Ratings 

Whenever an event’s rating changes, all recipients defined in the event definition now receive an automatic email notification. This ensures stakeholders stay informed when a situation escalates or improves. 

Store Event Payload for 24 Hours 

A new event action allows the system to store event payloads for 24 hours in the Intelligent Event Processing data store. These payloads can then be accessed via the Raw Data Outbound Logs API, supporting downstream analytics or incident investigations. 

TL;DR: 

Event actions are now reusable, process structures can be imported, rating changes trigger notifications, and event payloads can be stored for 24 hours for deeper analysis. 

Implementation – Documents, Overview, Test Preparation

This week’s updates in the Implementation area focus on usability, discoverability, and integration. From enhanced document search and customizable project overview layouts to API-driven test case management, these improvements help teams work more efficiently, stay better organized, and integrate SAP Cloud ALM more seamlessly into their existing workflows. 

Document Search Enhancement

SAP Cloud ALM now makes it easier to find the documents needed for project work. 

With the new Central Search capability, documents can be located across multiple attributes including title, type, status, priority, approval state, external file name, content, tags, and notes. 

Only saved documents are included in search results – drafts remain excluded to ensure clarity and accuracy. 

This update significantly improves discoverability, especially in large projects with extensive documentation. 

TL;DR: 

Documents can now be found via Central Search using multiple attributes, improving speed and accuracy when locating project artifacts. 

Personalized Project Overview Layout

The Project Overview app now supports drag-and-drop card rearrangement, giving teams the freedom to personalize how project information is displayed. 

Users can move cards into the order that best fits their workflow and save the customized layout. In addition, the reorganized view can be shared with team members via email, making collaboration and stakeholder communication more efficient. 

TL;DR: 

Cards in Project Overview can now be rearranged via drag-and-drop, enabling personalized layouts and easy sharing of customized views. 

API Support for Managing Manual Test Cases

SAP Cloud ALM expands its test management capabilities with a new Test Management API that enables external management of manual test cases. 

With this API, teams can now create, update, or retrieve manual test cases programmatically – streamlining integration with external test tools, automation frameworks, and custom workflows. This enhancement reduces manual effort and supports more flexible, API-driven test lifecycle management. 

Technical details can be found: SAP API Guide for SAP Cloud ALM. 

TL;DR: 

A new Test Management API allows external management of manual test cases, enabling automation and tool integration. 

Administration – User Management

This week’s Administration update focuses on strengthening foundational identity management. With a new option to update identity provider configurations directly from the User Management Overview, SAP Cloud ALM makes it easier to stay aligned with upcoming security and integration standards. 

Update Identity Provider Configuration

A new enhancement in the User Management Overview allows administrators to update their identity provider configuration to align with the latest SAP recommendations. This update enhances the integration between your Identity Authentication service tenant and SAP Cloud ALM, preparing the environment for upcoming improvements. 

Open the Connected Identity Provider card and choose Show More to review the details. Select “Update Now” to apply the updated configuration.

TL;DR: 

Administrators can now update the identity provider setup directly in SAP Cloud ALM to meet new integration standards and ensure future compatibility. 

Cross-Area Update

Terminology Alignment for SAP Solution Manager Transitions

A new documentation resource is now available to support teams moving from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM. It provides a clear comparison of terminology used across both solutions, helping users understand conceptual equivalents and avoid confusion during transition or dual-operation phases. 

The document will continue to grow over time as more terms and functional mappings are refined. 

See the full comparison guide here: SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Solution Manager – Terminological Differences. 

TL;DR: 

A new terminology comparison guide helps align SAP Solution Manager and SAP Cloud ALM concepts, making transitions smoother and reducing ambiguity.

​​​​SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 46

SAP Cloud ALM keeps advancing – with this week’s updates centered on precision, structure, and control. 

​The week 46 release introduces automated checks and smarter data migration handling in SAP Business Transformation Center, expanded monitoring coverage in Operations, and improved organization and usability features in Implementation. 

​Together, these enhancements strengthen consistency across projects, streamline validation, and make managing transformations and operations more efficient than ever.​ 

SAP Business Transformation Center – Modeling 

The latest update in the SAP Business Transformation Center strengthens data migration reliability and transparency. With new automation in detecting and transferring customer-specific change documents, transformation projects can now ensure a more complete and accurate migration process – reducing manual effort and minimizing the risk of missing critical data.

Automatic Migration of Customer-Specific Change Documents

Data migration just became smarter and more complete in the SAP Business Transformation Center. 

With the new automatic detection and migration of customer-specific change documents, teams can ensure that all relevant change records from the SAP ECC source system are transferred – no manual configuration required. 

This enhancement is managed through the new Source System Scan tab in the Manage Transformation Models app, which includes an Unknown Change Documents Check to identify and migrate any custom change documents that might otherwise be missed. The scan also verifies system connectivity and logs detailed check results so teams can restart or refresh failed checks directly. 

By automating this critical validation step, transformation projects gain a more reliable, transparent, and complete migration process – helping teams move data confidently and efficiently. 

For more information, see Managing the Source System Scan and the Related Checks. 

TL;DR: 

Automatic detection and migration of customer-specific change documents ensure complete, consistent data transfer – all managed through the new Source System Scan in Manage Transformation Models. 

Operations – Real User Monitoring

This week’s Operations update expands monitoring coverage to new SAP solutions, giving teams deeper visibility into system performance and user experience. With Real User Monitoring now supporting more specialized applications, organizations can ensure consistent performance insights across a broader part of their landscape. 

Expanded Real User Monitoring Coverage

 Real User Monitoring (RUM) now supports additional SAP solutions, broadening visibility into user experience and system performance across more business areas. 

The newly supported solutions include: 

  • SAP Advanced Commodity Risk Analytics 
  • SAP Project and Resource Management (resource management capability)

This enhancement helps operations teams gain consistent, end-to-end insights into performance and user behavior – even in specialized analytical and resource management scenarios. 

TL;DR: 

Real User Monitoring now covers SAP Advanced Commodity Risk Analytics and SAP Project and Resource Management, extending performance visibility across more SAP solutions.

Implementation – Libraries, Process Authoring, Test Plans

This week’s Implementation updates enhance flexibility and control across project design, development, and testing. From a cleaner library creation experience to direct management of developments and smarter test case filtering, teams gain more efficient ways to structure, connect, and validate their work in SAP Cloud ALM. 

Redesigned Library Element Creation Menu

The Libraries app now features a remodeled menu for creating new library elements. 

This improved layout simplifies navigation and makes it easier to select the right type of element, helping teams quickly build and organize reusable project assets.

TL;DR: 

A redesigned library element creation menu improves clarity and ease of use in the Libraries app. 

View and Maintain Developments in Process Authoring

In Process Authoring, users can now view developments assigned to a solution activity directly from the Solution Activities list. Details such as development type – for example, Transaction, Classes/Interface, or Custom Fiori Application – are now visible.

When in Edit mode, developments can also be assigned or unassigned directly within the list, improving visibility and control over the technical objects linked to each activity. 

TL;DR: 

Users can now view, assign, and unassign developments for solution activities in Process Authoring for better transparency and management. 

Additional Filters in Test Case Assignment

The Test Plans app now offers more filtering options when assigning test cases. 

These additional filters make it easier to narrow down the list of available test cases, ensuring that only relevant ones are included in each plan.

TL;DR: 

New filters in Test Plans make test case assignment faster and more targeted. 

Cross-Area Update 

Switch to New DigiCert Root Certificates for SAP Cloud ALM Connectivity 

SAP is strengthening platform security by transitioning to higher encryption standards with the DigiCert TLS RSA4096 Root G5 and DigiCert Global Root G3 certificates. 

Systems using custom trust store, STRUST, must include the new root certificates alongside the existing DigiCert Global Root G2, which remains valid during the transition period. 

Keep in mind that this update is not optional. Once SAP begins issuing certificates signed with the new roots in Q1 2026, systems that haven’t added G5 and G3 will simply stop trusting SAP Cloud ALM endpoints. This can lead to broken connections, failed integrations, and missing monitoring data – issues that cannot be fixed without updating the trust store. 

To stay operational, make sure the certificates are added well in advance. For more information, see SAP Note 3566727. 

TL;DR: 

Add DigiCert G5 and G3 root certificates to custom trust stores, keep G2 active during the transition, and ensure continued secure connectivity ahead of the 2026 rollout. 

SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 44

​SAP Cloud ALM keeps advancing – this week’s updates focus on clarity, structure, and smarter control. 

​The week 44 release brings a reorganized extensibility view in RISE with SAP, extended security coverage and monitoring in Operations, and improved project organization and usability in Implementation. 

​Together, these updates strengthen transparency across systems, simplify daily work, and help teams deliver with greater confidence and precision.​ 

RISE with SAP – System View

The latest updates in the RISE with SAP area focus on strengthening clean core transparency and extensibility governance. With the introduction of the new Clean Core Level Concept, the System View dashboard now provides a clearer, more structured view of how custom code and extensions align with SAP’s clean core principles – helping customers manage technical debt, plan modernization, and maintain upgrade stability. 

Extensibility Section Reorganized

The Extensibility section of the System View dashboard has been completely restructured to align with the new Clean Core Level Concept for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, replacing the legacy 3-Tier Extensibility model.

This change modernizes how extensibility compliance is visualized, making it easier for users to distinguish between upgrade-stable, clean-core-compliant extensions and those that may require remediation.

Under the new model, all extensions are categorized into four Clean Core Levels (A-D), which describe how closely each extension aligns with the clean core principles for SAP S/4HANA Cloud: 

  • Level A: Extensions that are built with released SAP APIs and ABAP for Cloud Development, and are considered fully cloud-compliant. 
  • Level B: Extensions that are partially aligned with the clean core guidelines and may require adjustments to reach full compliance. 
  • Level C: Extensions that use classic extensibility approaches and should be modernized over time. 
  • Level D: Extensions that are not compliant with the clean core principles and should be addressed with high priority. 

The updated section introduces several new KPI cards to provide a clearer picture of system extensibility and technical debt: 

  • Technical Debt Score – Evaluates modernization needs based on clean core compliance. 
  • Execution of Customer Objects – Shows how frequently custom objects are executed compared to standard ones. 
  • Business Modifications – Highlights legacy modifications that may affect upgrade stability. 
  • Unused Customer Objects – Identifies unused extensions that can be cleaned up. 
  • Clean Core Share – Measures the overall share of compliant extensions. 
  • Detailed Level Overview (A-D) – Provides visibility into the distribution of extensions by clean core level. 

By integrating the Clean Core Level Concept, the dashboard offers greater transparency into custom code usage and a practical foundation for modernization planning. 

As part of this transition, the following cards have been removed from the dashboard: 

  • Setup for ABAP Cloud Development 
  • ABAP Cloud: Level A Objects 
  • ABAP Classic: Business Modifications 
  • Button linking to the Custom Code Analytics dashboard 

TL;DR: 

The Extensibility section now follows SAP’s Clean Core Level Concept (A-D), introducing new KPIs like Technical Debt Score and Clean Core Share for a clearer, more structured view of your system’s extensibility landscape. 

Operations – Configuration & Security Analysis, Health Monitoring, Business Service Management, Real User Monitoring

The latest updates in the Operations area continue to strengthen SAP Cloud ALM’s monitoring and compliance capabilities. From extended security validation coverage for SAP HANA Cloud and SuccessFactors services, to new Event Mesh metrics in Health Monitoring, and smarter changepoint detection in Real User Monitoring – these enhancements help operations teams gain deeper insights, act faster, and maintain a clean, secure landscape. 

Expanded Service Coverage – Configuration & Security Analysis

The Configuration & Security Analysis app continues to broaden its scope with new integrations that help operations teams strengthen security compliance and configuration transparency across a wider range of SAP services. 

Users can now analyze configuration items and view compliance results against SAP’s official security recommendations for the following additional services: 

  • SAP HANA Cloud 
  • SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake 
  • SAP SuccessFactors Agent Lifecycle Management 
  • SAP SuccessFactors Agent Performance Management 

These additions make it easier for administrators and security teams to centrally monitor adherence to SAP’s best practices across multiple SAP cloud services. The compliance results highlight deviations from recommended configurations, enabling faster remediation and more consistent governance. 

Configuration for these services can be managed directly in the Configuration & Security Analysis – Data Stores app. Validation of Security Recommendations can be viewed in Configuration & Security Analysis – Validation app.  

TL;DR: 

Configuration & Security Analysis now supports SAP HANA Cloud, HANA Cloud Data Lake, SuccessFactors Agent Lifecycle Management, and Agent Performance Management, providing broader visibility and security compliance insights across SAP cloud environments. 

Support for SAP Integration Suite (Event Mesh) – Health Monitoring

Health Monitoring now extends its coverage to include SAP Integration Suite (Event Mesh), giving operations teams better visibility into the health and performance of their event-driven integration scenarios. 

With this enhancement, users can monitor key Event Mesh metrics directly within SAP Cloud ALM, including: 

  • Message Consumers 
  • Active Connections 
  • Broker State 
  • Message Queues 
  • Message Spool Usage 

By tracking these metrics, administrators can proactively identify bottlenecks, assess system load, and ensure event distribution runs reliably across connected systems. 

TL;DR: 

Health Monitoring now supports SAP Integration Suite (Event Mesh), adding metrics for message flow, connection status, and broker performance to improve operational oversight. 

Event Actions for Past Events – Business Service Management

The Business Service Management app now supports event actions for past status events, such as Disruption and Degradation events, even when both their start and end times have already occurred. 

Previously, event actions like ticket creation, email, or chat notifications were not triggered for retrospective events generated by SAP for Me. With this enhancement, teams can now apply the same automated workflows to past events, ensuring that all incidents – past or current – are consistently documented and communicated.

Supported event actions include: 

  • Create Ticket – Automatically generates and closes a ticket when a past event occurs, including details from root cause analysis. 
  • Send Mail – Sends an email notification after an event or root cause analysis is completed, based on your settings. 
  • Send Chat Notification – Sends a chat alert after an event or analysis is finished, ensuring team awareness. 
  • Start Operation Flow – Triggers an operation flow automatically after the event occurs, following the configured rules. 

This enhancement improves visibility, traceability, and post-incident analysis for business service health management. 

TL;DR: 

Users can now trigger ticketing, mail, chat, and operation flow actions for past SAP for Me events, improving retrospective analysis and service management consistency. 

Alerts for Changepoint Detection – Real User Monitoring

Real User Monitoring now includes changepoint detection alerts, enabling proactive identification of unusual performance shifts across your monitored systems and services. 

A changepoint represents a statistically significant deviation in request performance – such as a sudden spike or drop in response time – compared to recent behavior. SAP Cloud ALM continuously evaluates metrics within a sliding time window, adapting the analysis length to request frequency. 

Changepoints are detected for the following backend request types: 

  • HTTP / HTTPS 
  • RFC / RFCS 
  • Dialog 
  • Web Service (WS) 

Detected changepoints appear on a timeline for all systems and services in scope, visually highlighting periods of performance degradation (marked in red). Selecting a changepoint displays key details such as:

  • Request type and name 
  • Time window of impact 
  • Measured response times and trends 

With this update, you can also create alerts for changepoints, automatically notifying your team of anomalies that may require investigation. This significantly improves situational awareness and shortens the time to detect and resolve performance issues. 

TL;DR: 

Real User Monitoring now detects and alerts on changepoints – short-term performance shifts across HTTP, RFC, and other request types – helping teams quickly spot and act on emerging issues. 

Implementation – Project Overview, Projects and Setup, Process Authoring, Processes

The latest updates in the Implementation area focus on improving project clarity, structure, and usability. With new tools to visualize risks, group projects into programs, simplify process relations, and create test cases directly in the Processes app, project teams can manage complexity more efficiently and keep execution tightly aligned with testing and governance. 

New Risks Card in Project Overview

Project transparency has a new Risks card in the Project Overview app.  

This card visualizes project risks in two ways by Status and by Risk Level – giving project managers and stakeholders an instant overview of potential challenges and their severity. 

TL;DR: 

The new Risks card in Project Overview provides instant visibility into project risks by status and level. 

Grouping Projects into Programs – Projects and Setup

Users can now group multiple related projects under a Program, providing a higher-level organizational layer for complex initiatives. 

Programs make it easier to navigate between connected projects, align their progress, and manage large-scale transformations more effectively. 

TL;DR: 

Group related projects into Programs for better portfolio visibility and easier navigation between linked initiatives. 

Relations grouped in a single tab – Process Authoring

Relations in Process Authoring are now consolidated under a single Relations tab. 

Users can quickly switch between relation types using a convenient drop-down menu, while still being able to scroll through sections as before. 

This usability improvement reduces clutter and simplifies navigation when managing multiple relation types in complex process structures. 

TL;DR: 

All relations for a solution activity are now grouped in one tab with a quick drop-down selector for smoother navigation. 

Create Test Cases Directly in Processes

In the Processes app, users can now create test cases directly from a solution process or solution process flow diagram. 

The creation dialog is prefilled with relevant data, so users only need to add a title before saving. Automated test cases can be created for solution processes, while manual ones can be added for process flow diagrams. 

This reduces the need to switch between apps and helps maintain tighter alignment between processes and testing. 

TL;DR: 

Create automated or manual test cases directly in the Processes app – no need to switch to Test Preparation. 

ALM Summit 2025 – Structure for What’s to Come

This year’s SAP ALM Summit EMEA focused on adoption and responsibility. One thing became clear in Darmstadt: The technical foundations have been laid – over 12,000 Cloud ALM tenants are already in use. 

But the real question is: How many of them are actually being used and used correctly?

There may still be a long road between deployment and tangible value. Many companies have activated Cloud ALM, but haven’t truly integrated it. The result: data silos instead of transparency, activity instead of control.

This is precisely where it will be decided whether Cloud ALM delivers as a platform – or fizzles out as just another tool. 

Cloud ALM as Orchestrator 

SAP positions Cloud ALM as the core of an integrated toolchain from scoping to operations. 

Not as an additional tool, but as the unifying layer between strategy, execution, and stability.

(Foto: SAP Cloud ALM – Orchestrator of the integrated toolchain) 

The slides in Darmstadt impressively demonstrated how closely Cloud ALM is now integrated with the entire SAP landscape:

  • SAP4Me provides status and onboarding data 
  • Central Business Configuration defines structures and tasks 
  • Signavio adds process context
  • Tricentis Test Automation enhances quality assurance
  • and partner solutions are integrated via open APIs

This creates a landscape where project, operations, and quality don’t exist side by side, but work together. Cloud ALM doesn’t just manage tasks, it orchestrates dependencies and ensures traceability across the entire lifecycle. 

The direction is clear: moving away from isolated rollouts toward an orchestrated way of working which is then structured, integrated, and traceable.

Clean Core as Prerequisite 

Clean Core was one of the central topics of the summit. Not as a question of architecture, but as a response to three concrete challenges:

Business Change

Companies operate in an environment that is constantly changing, driven by new customer demands, supply chains, and work models.

Only those who keep their systems flexible and close to standard can respond to these changes without having to start from scratch each time.

New Technologies 

Innovation today happens in short cycles.

To benefit from this, systems must remain open to new technologies, whether for automation, integration or the usage of AI.

A clean core is the prerequisite for adopting these innovations safely and quickly. 

Landscape Complexity

The more systems, interfaces, and variants are involved, the greater the dependency becomes.

Clean Core reduces this complexity by simplifying structures and making changes manageable.

At the same time, Clean Core is the foundation for becoming Public (!) Cloud ready in the long term. 

Because standardization and a clear extension logic are prerequisites for adopting future operating models without having to migrate again. 

(Foto: Clean Core Slide / „ERP Challenges Today“) 

Change and Deployment Management Matures 

CDM in Cloud ALM is evolving rapidly, not in theory, but along a clear roadmap.

By H2 2026, the solution is expected to be on par with Solution Manager. Both functionally and conceptually.

(Foto: Change & Deployment Management Outlook) 

The scope is already expanding significantly:

New roles and APIs, test case integration, transport landscape validation, and automatic retrofit are laying the foundation for end-to-end processes.

In 2025, scenarios for S/4HANA conversion, mass edit of features and ATO deployment will follow, making CDM relevant for complex customer landscapes.

In 2026, the features that have so far set Solution Manager apart will follow:

Deployment Cockpit, Custom Check Framework, flexible four-system landscapes, more granular authorizations, and extended process relationships.

This will make Cloud ALM a tool in change management that combines governance, automation, and transparency.

But the same applies here:

Technical maturity is only part of the equation. Real value is only created when companies adapt their processes, roles, and approval workflows to this new logic and its possibilities.

AI as a Tool – Not a Promise 

AI was also present in Darmstadt, but less as hype and more as a clearly defined development path. 

SAP outlines the path in three stages:

Embedded AI – specific use cases within individual functions: automatic anomaly detection, ticket analysis, or test suggestions. 

  • They provide immediate relief to teams and create transparency in day-to-day operations.

Conversational ALM – enabled by Joule.

  • This enables dialogue with the system: queries, analyses, and controls in natural language.
  • The goal: less navigation, more understanding.

Autonomous ALM – driven by agents. 

  • In this phase, intelligent assistants independently take over recurring tasks – based on rules, context, and experience.
  • Human responsibility remains, but it shifts from doing to deciding.

(Foto: 3 Steps towards Autonomous ALM) 

This makes it clear: Autonomous ALM is not a leap, but a transition. Step by step, from analysis to assistance, from assistance to autonomy.

Our Conclusion

The ALM Summit 2025 was not a future congress, but a reality check. 

The platform is here. The features are here. What matters now is usage – consistent, integrated, and traceable.

Those who truly want to understand Cloud ALM must live it. With clear methodology, governance, and responsibility.

Because value is not created through deployment, but through application.

The best starting point? An honest overview with our alm360 assessment. 

We bring structure to projects and clarity to complex systems. 

Because only those who know their course will reach their destination 🏁 .

SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 34 

SAP Cloud ALM continues to evolve with frequent updates, bringing new capabilities that make daily work more efficient, transparent, and easier to manage. The latest set of enhancements delivered in week 34 introduces features that simplify administration, strengthen project execution, and provide greater operational insights.

We’ve taken a closer look at the updates and selected the ones we believe add the most value. From streamlining issues and action handling, to improving scoping in digital blueprints, to extending monitoring with new KPIs, these enhancements offer practical improvements for administrators, project managers, consultants, and operations teams alike.

Services – Issues and Actions Management

The latest updates in Issues and Actions Management focus on making task handling more efficient, transparent, and user-friendly. Whether it’s managing supporting documentation, reassigning multiple items at once, or quickly finding the right assignee, these improvements save time and reduce friction in daily project work.

A readable display of all uploaded documents for issues and standalone actions

With the latest update, all uploaded, or newly attached documents are now displayed in a structured, readable tabular format. This small but impactful change improves visibility and makes it much easier for project managers, consultants, and teams to access, review, and verify the supporting information tied to each issue or action.

The result is a clearer, more transparent workflow, ensuring that supporting documentation is never overlooked and can be used more effectively in reviews, audits, or handovers.

TL;DR:

Documents uploaded to issues or actions are now displayed in a user-friendly table, improving visibility and traceability.

Update the assignee of multiple issues and standalone actions in one go

Reassigning multiple issues or actions has traditionally been a time-intensive, repetitive task, requiring updates one by one. For large projects with frequent ownership changes, this quickly became a bottleneck for keeping responsibility aligned and workloads balanced.

The new feature allows administrators, and team leads to update the assignee of multiple issues and standalone actions at once, directly from the Issues and Actions Overview page. This streamlined workflow saves valuable time, reduces administrative effort, and helps teams stay agile when responsibilities shift.

By simplifying the reassignment process, this enhancement also minimizes the risk of missed updates, ensuring that ownership remains consistent across the project.

TL;DR:

Update the assignee for multiple issues and actions in one go, saving time and keeping responsibilities aligned.

Search for Assignee with auto-suggestions and value help

Assigning or reassigning tasks is one of the most common actions in Issues and Actions Management. However, manually searching for users could slow down workflows, particularly in larger organizations with many potential assignees.

The new auto-suggestion and value help functionality on the Issue Details and Action Details pages significantly improves this process. Users can now quickly search by name or value, receive smart suggestions, and easily assign or override the current assignee with the right person.

This enhancement not only speeds up day-to-day work but also reduces errors when assigning tasks, ensuring that the right responsibilities are always matched to the right team members.

TL;DR:

Smart assignee search with auto-suggestions makes it faster and easier to assign or reassign issues and actions.

SAP Business Transformation Center – Scoping

The recent enhancements in the SAP Business Transformation Center focus on improving scoping clarity and flexibility within digital blueprints. By offering better visibility of active solution patterns and enabling selective scoping through organizational slices, these updates make it easier for project teams to design migration strategies that are both efficient and transparent.

Active solution patterns list

You can now view a list of all active solution patterns directly in the Digital Blueprint Overview app. Until now, project teams had to rely on memory or manual documentation to keep track of which solution patterns were applied to a blueprint. With this update, the system provides a clear, consolidated view of all active patterns in one place.

This improvement increases transparency and alignment across teams. Project managers can quickly verify the scope, consultants can validate whether the right patterns are applied, and stakeholders gain a reliable overview of the blueprint setup without additional effort. By eliminating guesswork and improving visibility, it becomes easier to manage scope and avoid inconsistencies during transformation.

TL;DR:

View all active solution patterns for a digital blueprint in one place to improve scope transparency, alignment, and decision-making.

New org slice solution pattern

A new org slice solution pattern is now available, enabling users to selectively exclude data for specific organizational units (such as company codes) from the scope of a digital blueprint. This feature is particularly valuable in complex landscapes, where only certain parts of the organization need to be migrated at a given time.

By narrowing the migration scope to targeted organizational units, project teams can reduce system size and complexity, which often results in faster processing, fewer errors, and more efficient transformation activities. For example, if a company is migrating only selected regions or business units in a phased approach, the org slice pattern ensures that the blueprint reflects only the relevant data, avoiding unnecessary workload.

TL;DR:

Apply org slices to exclude specific organizational units from a digital blueprint, reducing complexity and supporting more efficient, targeted migrations.

Operations – Business Process Monitoring

The latest enhancements in Business Process Monitoring continue to strengthen data quality and operational reliability across end-to-end processes. By introducing targeted KPIs, SAP Cloud ALM helps organizations identify gaps, detect risks early, and ensure smooth execution of business-critical activities such as payroll. These improvements support HR, operations, and project teams in maintaining accuracy, compliance, and employee satisfaction.

New KPI for SAP SuccessFactors Payroll

A new KPI, Employees Without Payroll Area Assignment, is now available within Business Process Monitoring for SAP SuccessFactors Payroll, under the end-to-end process Recruit to Retire.

This KPI is activated automatically once the setup steps for SAP SuccessFactors Payroll are completed and the relevant data is being generated. It helps organizations identify employees who have not been assigned to a payroll area, a critical prerequisite for correct payroll processing.

This update is especially valuable for HR and payroll teams who need to ensure accurate master data maintenance, project managers overseeing HR process reliability, and operations teams monitoring overall data quality in end-to-end HR processes. By detecting missing assignments early, payroll errors can be avoided and employee satisfaction maintained.

TL;DR:

The new KPI “Employees Without Payroll Area Assignment” in SAP SuccessFactors Payroll helps ensure data quality and prevents payroll disruptions by identifying unassigned employees early.

Implementation – Test Plans, Cross-Project Overview, Guided Implementation

Recent updates in the Implementation area add new flexibility for managing test plans, better visibility of process structures, and more control over documentation and project timelines. These enhancements make it easier for teams to organize, track, and align implementation activities across projects.

Tag assignment for Test Plans

A new tagging capability has been introduced in the Test Plans app. Tags allow users to assign meaningful labels to test plans, grouping them based on business area, scope, priority, or any other project-specific attribute. This makes it far easier to search for and filter test plans in the list view, particularly in large projects with extensive testing scope.

An additional benefit is that tags are automatically removed when no longer in use, ensuring that the system remains free from clutter or outdated entries. For project managers and test leads, this means they can quickly identify related test plans, keep test cycles organized, and support structured test execution.

At blue.works, we complement capabilities with dedicated Test & Quality services – from operative test management and test automation to tailored test strategies, concepts, and tool support. Explore our Test & Quality offering to see how we can help strengthen testing in your projects.

TL;DR:

Assign tags to test plans to organize them by common attributes and simplify searching, filtering, and reporting.

Process Hierarchy Assignments – Interface column enhancement

The Process Hierarchy Assignments app has been enhanced with a new column for library type Interfaces. This addition improves transparency in how interfaces are mapped to hierarchy nodes. Until now, managing and validating interface dependencies often required switching between views or relying on external documentation.

With this enhancement, teams can directly see which interfaces are tied to specific hierarchy elements, helping ensure all dependencies are accounted for during project scoping and design. This is particularly valuable in integration-heavy projects, where overlooking a single interface could cause downstream issues.

TL;DR:

The new Interfaces column in Process Hierarchy Assignments provides clearer visibility of interface dependencies, making scoping and validation easier.

Edit sprints and milestones in detail view

Project timelines often need adjustment as priorities shift and new requirements emerge. To support this, the Guided Implementation task Define Timelines now allows sprints and milestones to be edited directly in the detail view.

This enhancement streamlines planning by letting teams make timeline adjustments where they are already working, without navigating back to separate configuration areas. For project leads and scrum masters, it enables more agile project management, making it easier to keep plans aligned with reality while maintaining a clear structure of tasks and milestones.

TL;DR:

Sprints and milestones can now be edited directly in the Define Timelines task, giving teams greater flexibility and agility in project planning.

Administration – Landscape Management

The Administration area of SAP Cloud ALM is steadily evolving to give system administrators and user managers more streamlined tools to handle configuration, access, and governance. Recent enhancements aim to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and respond directly to community feedback shared through SAP Influence requests.

Central Clean-Up for use case configuration

One of the more time-consuming challenges administrators have faced in SAP Cloud ALM is the complexity of de-registering use cases. Until now, removing configurations for a particular use case required following a multi-step, fragmented procedure across different monitoring applications – such as Health Monitoring, Business Process Monitoring, Integration & Exception Monitoring, or Job & Automation Monitoring. Each application had its own steps, making the process not only lengthy but also prone to oversight or errors.

With the new Central Clean-Up capability in Landscape Management, SAP has taken the first step toward addressing this pain point. This feature allows administrators to centrally clean up configurations for supported use cases, starting with Health Monitoring. This marks a significant improvement in reducing complexity, saving time, and ensuring a more consistent and user-friendly de-registration workflow.

This capability also reflects feedback from the SAP community. In fact, we initiated an SAP Influence request to simplify and unify the de-registration process, which has now materialized into this first step toward the streamlined clean-up we envisioned. You can follow the progress of our request and add your support here.

The benefits are clear: administrators gain efficiency by avoiding repetitive steps across multiple applications, the risk of errors is lowered through a standardized approach, and overall productivity is improved by freeing up time for more value-adding tasks.

While currently available only for Health Monitoring, this enhancement is the first real step toward a unified, streamlined clean-up process across all monitoring use cases. At blue.works, we’re looking forward to seeing this capability extended to other areas like Job & Automation Monitoring, Integration & Exception Monitoring, and Business Process Monitoring in future updates – making system clean-up faster, simpler, and far less error-prone.

TL;DR:

Central Clean-Up in Landscape Management simplifies the de-registration of Health Monitoring configurations, delivering time savings, reduced complexity, and more consistency. It also marks progress on the SAP Influence request for a unified de-registration process – paving the way for similar improvements across other monitoring use cases.

SAP Cloud ALM – What’s New in Week 24

SAP Cloud ALM continues to advance with every update, bringing more features and a smoother user experience. This update highlights the most recent enhancements from the past two weeks – focused on improving usability and expanding capabilities to help streamline daily operations and support more efficient landscape management. If you missed the previous post in our update series, you can find it here.

Services

Issues and Actions Management has new date range filters such as Created On, Last Changed On, and Due Date for a refined search of issues and standalone actions on Overview page. These filters help users quickly narrow down results based on key timelines, making it easier to stay organized and focused on what matters most.

Implementation

In Process Authoring, users can now see the Application ID of any applications linked to a solution activity in the Solution Activities list. In Edit mode, they can also easily assign or unassign applications directly from this list. As before, the application name remains a clickable link that opens its details in the Libraries app. These updates make managing applications within solution activities faster and more convenient.

Documents introduced access restrictions for Deleting documents. As of now, only users with the role of Project Lead or Project Administrator can delete documents.

Users with the role Project Member can no longer permanently delete documents, but they can still mark them for deletion. Documents in status Marked for deletion can’t be changed, copied or unassigned (only from other apps can the document be unassigned). To restore a document that is marked for deletion open details view on object page and filter documents that are marked for deletion, open the on needing restoring and choose Restore.

This change helps protect important files and adds more control over document management.

Deployment now allows users to perform Downgrade Protection and Cross-Reference Checks on deployment schedule for a feature bundle. When users perform transport checks, all transports that will be selected for upcoming deployment are checked. Keep in mind that the bundle of transports based on feature selection can change until the deployment is performed. In case the transport checks show a warning or error, make sure to fix the issues before the deployment is performed. These checks ensure smoother, more reliable deployments by catching potential issues early.

In the Transport Checks app, users can see which features and transports with the same target tenant and check type of deployment plan were checked.

Several apps

In the Tasks, the Requirements, the Defects, and the Quality Gates app, users can now use the drop-down menu of the new Relations tab to view all relations of an item.

Operations

Integration & Exception Monitoring had enhancements made to the Business Objects page. The Status Text column in the Business Objects table now shows success or error messages directly from the application data sent by the managed component, offering more context about each replication instance.

In the Business Object Details pane, the status text from the managed component, whether success or error, is now visible. Meanwhile, in the Business Object view, the most recent or most critical status text related to the replication instance is shown. Previously, only the status from the MDI service within the integration was displayed.

In Job & Automation Monitoring has now a new Context column in Monitoring and Analysis pages displaying additional context information about a job. This information is retrieved from the sap.jam.job_context attribute in Raw Data Inbound Logs API as sent by the data provider.

For example: if an external scheduler sends the sap.jam.job_context attribute as the name of the managed component, this name is displayed in the Context column.

It’s possible to do the following for the Context value:

  • Filter using the value in Monitoring Filters and Analysis Filters
  • Use it as an Event Filter parameter.

Context value is displayed for managed components of Unspecific Cloud Service (HTTP) type only.

Real User Monitoring introduced a new feature allowing users to upload a CSV file containing their own IP address ranges and associated location details for enhanced configuration. This enables a drilldown capability for private IP addresses in the monitoring UI, providing more detailed insights and control over network monitoring.

Synthetic User Monitoring now includes new events that can be enabled at the scenario level. These scenario-level alerts notify users when availability or performance issues occur across runners. This helps users quickly spot problems, act faster, and keep systems running smoothly with better visibility into scenario performance.