SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Core Capabilities

• Integrations and Extensions

• Partner Strategy

• Summary and Outlook

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Introduction
SAP Cloud ALM – our cloud-based Application Lifecycle Management

…for Implementation

For the intelligent enterprise …for Operations In the public cloud

• for cloud-centric customers …for Service • Re-thought, newly designed, and built
• manages cloud and hybrid solutions on modern cloud technology
• supports all components of the • Ready for immediate consumption
intelligent enterprise • Cost-efficient for customers

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Introduction to SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

OUT O F T HE BOX OPEN SAP STANDARD CONTENT

Design Build Test Deploy

CLOUD NATIVE INTEGRATED TRACEABLE

SAP Cloud ALM provides the harmonized implementation experience for the intelligent enterprise, covering all
relevant SAP solutions for all customers

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Introduction to SAP Cloud ALM for implementation

Design Build Test Deploy

Consume SAP’s Perform configuration Manage integration Orchestrate
best practice content, activities and and acceptance tests consistent deployment
model process diagrams manage extensions by based on SAP content to production with
to manage fit-to- following SAP’s for manual testing change management
standard workshops recommended tasks. and integration of workflow.
and manage requirements. automated testing tools.

Analytics and traceability for the entire process

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SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation - Architecture

Business Key User Test Managers

Project Leads Change Manager
Process Expert Test Experts
All Project Members Release Manager
Functional Consultants Testers

Functionalities Detailed Reporting and Analytics

Integration of Change
Fit-2-Standard Process Project Test Test Automation Deployment
Workshops Hierarchy Planning Landscape Planning provider S/4HANA
Documentation
Planning
BPMN DMS SAP Standard Test Automation Traceability Deployment
Modelling Integration* Templates Configuration* Test Cases Tool Automation
SAP Status & Task Test Defect Change Feature
Requirements
Best Practice Approval Distribution Preparation Management Reporting Delivery
Refinement
Requirements Manual Audit Trails
Open APIs SAP Activate Open APIs Open APIs Open APIs
collection Testing

Tricentis Test Automation for SAP

Core Capabilities Project

Process Project & Task Test Change Deployment
Documentation Execution & Test Execution
Management Management Orchestration Enablement Orchestration
Tracking

Phase
Design Build Test Deploy
Technology
SAP Business Technology Platform

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Core Capabilities
Capabilities

Process Management Project & Task Test Orchestration Change Enablement

Management
▪ Fit-2-Standard Workshops ▪ Project Planning ▪ Test Planning ▪ Change documentation &
▪ Process Scoping & Viewer ▪ Task Distribution ▪ Test Preparation reporting
▪ Process Authoring ▪ Task Templates ▪ Test Case Creation ▪ Traceability & Audit Trail
▪ Requirements Collection ▪ Gantt Chart
▪ Landscape

Documentation Project Execution & Test Execution Deployment

Tracking Orchestration
▪ Rich Text based ▪ Requirements Refinement ▪ Manual testing ▪ Deployment Planning
documentation ▪ Configuration* ▪ Integration of test ▪ Feature & Fix Delivery
▪ Status & Approval* ▪ Extension Management* automation providers ▪ Deployment Automation &
▪ Document Management ▪ Integration Management* ▪ Defect management Confirmation
Integration

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Not only once, but ongoing, agile and supporting all customer scenarios

Agile implementation in sprints

Process Project & Task Test Change

Management Management Orchestration Enablement

Project Execution Deployment

Documentation Test Execution
& Tracking Orchestration

Deployments into production in releases

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Process Management and Documentation

SAP Cloud ALM Design capability offers

• Fit-to-Standard Workshops

Business Key User

Functionalities
Process Expert • Capture Requirements to define Project Scope
Functional Consultants

SAP Best Practice content

Fit-2-Standard Custom
• Assign Documents to Processes, Process Owner
Workshops Processes
Process Adapt SAP
Hierarchy BPMN Standard
Process
Import &
Scoping
Requirements Modelling
Collection
Open APIs • BPMN Modelling and custom content

Core Capabilities
• APIs for Scope, Custom Process and Documents
Process
Documentation
Management

Phase
• Relations to Process Hierarchy, Requirements, Tasks, and more
Design
Technology SAP Business Technology
Platform

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 Requirement-driven Implementation
Project
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Task Template Sprint 1 Sprint 2

Team 1 Project Tasks Project Tasks Project Tasks

Sub-Tasks Sub-Tasks
Scope 1
Cross Project
Entities Process Requirement

Roles
User Story Test Case Defect

Systems User Story Test Case

Landscape Sub-Tasks
Feature
assignments

Tags

Document
Workstreams

Deployment Release 1 Release 2

Plan
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Project and Task Management

SAP Cloud ALM Build capability offers

• Project Timelines, Project Team, and Project Landscape

Project Leads
Functionalities
All Project Members
• Custom Timelines, Teams, and Roles
SAP Activate Methodology
Prioject
Planning
Landscape • SAP Activate Methodology and Partner Methodology
Templates Configuration
Task Requirements
Distribution Refinement
Card View Open APIs
• Reporting and Analytics with End-to-End Traceability

Core Capabilities
Project & Task
Project
Execution &
• APIs for Projects and Tasks
Management Tracking
Phase
Build • Quality Gates
Technology SAP Business Technology
Platform

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Test Management

SAP Cloud ALM Test capability offers

• Manual Testing and automated Testing

Test Managers
Test Experts
Functionalities Testers • Test Plans and Tester Assignment
SAP Standard Test content

• Standard Test content for S/4HANA

Test Integration of
Planning Test Automation
Import provider S/4HANA
Test content Test Automation
Automated Defect Tool
Testing Management
Manual
Testing
Open APIs*
• Import of Partner Test content
Tricentis Test Automation for SAP

Core Capabilities
Test Test • Defect Management and Analytics
Preparation Execution

Phase
Test • APIs for Test Automation
Technology SAP Business Technology
Platform
• Tricentis Test Automation for SAP
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Tricentis Test Automation for SAP integrated with SAP Cloud ALM
What’s in it for you

Plan, prepare and

• Out of the box Automated Testing for
execute automated
all
• Easy to use test cases
• Browser based UIs
• Native integration Full traceability by • APIs & Integrations
• Managed by SAP integration in all • SAP GUIs* S/4HANA
Cloud ALM entities Test Automation Tool

Usage rights
Tricentis Test
Automation for SAP Cloud Execution
Agents**
• 5 named Users
Included in
SAP Automated testing • 2.5 GB Storage
Enterprise Support of SAP solutions
• 500 Tests /
and subscription
month

Provisioning
Customer Execution
Agents

Rapid Automatically
Request directly in
automated connected with
SAP Cloud ALM More SAP solutions
provisioning SAP Cloud ALM
OnPrem Landscape Cloud Landscape

* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
** Either Customer managed Agents or Cloud Agents from reseller product
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Change and Deployment Management

SAP Cloud ALM Deploy capability offers

• Features & Fixes

Change Manager
Functionalities
Release Manager
• Integration of Transport Management Systems
Integrations to ATO, CTS, CTMS
o Adaptation Transport Organizer (ATO)
Change Deploymemt
Documentation
Tracebility
Planning
Deplayment o Change and Transport System (CTS)
Automation
Change Feature
Reporting Delivery o Cloud Transport Management (CTMS)
Audit Trails OpenAPIs*

• Deployment Orchestration
Core Capabilities
Change Deployment
Management Orchestration

Phase • API for Features (planned for Q4 2024)

Deploy
Technology SAP Business Technology
Platform
• Audit Trails & Traceability

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Integrations and
Extensions
Public APIs for Implementation

Projects Tasks Analytics Test Automation

Rest API Rest API Rest API Rest API

Active Active Active Active

Planned APIs
• Features (Q4/2024)
Process Scope Custom Process Documents • Process Hierarchy (Q1/2025)
• Manual Tests (Q1/2025)
Rest API Rest API Rest API
All information on:
Active Active Active Business Accelerator Hub

Business Accelerator Hub

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SAP Cloud ALM on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Go to https://api.sap.com/ and
search for SAP Cloud ALM to
get all available APIs for
SAP Cloud ALM with links to
more information

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 Ready to use integration in SAP tools, services & external API’s

APIs exposed via Business API Hub

Onboard Design Build Test Deploy Innovate

SAP for Me

Project Initiation Scoping Configuration, Test Automation Deployment

Integration & Extension Orchestration
• SAP for me • Digital Discovery
Assessment (DDA) • Central Business • Local Test Automation • Local Deployment Tools:
Configuration Tools • On-Premise Transport
• Central Business
• Cloud Integration • S/4HANA Test Management
Configuration
Automation Services Automation • CTS
• Business API Hub • Tricentis Test • Cloud TMS
Automation • ATO
• …

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SAP Cloud ALM and SAP for Me

Implementation and Operations Transparency about customer’s

of the Intelligent Enterprise SAP product portfolio

SAP for Me

Customer Solution SAP’s internal

Business Systems
Organized by customer business Organized by SAP products
process and landscape

Customer owned SAP owned

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SAP Cloud ALM and Central Business Configuration

Configuration of the Implementation and Operations of

Intelligent Enterprise the Intelligent Enterprise
• Central business • Processes & Requirements
driven scoping Central Business Business Scope • Implementation Tasks
• Fine tuning & Configuration and Tasks
• Manual & Automated Tests
Configuration
• Deployment orchestration
• Configuration
deployment
Based on

Based on • Intelligent Enterprise

Scenarios
• Business Adaptation
Catalog • Best Practice Process
Content
• SAP Activate Methodology

Customer Solution

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SAP Cloud ALM and Cloud Integration Automation

Review & Scope Business • Trigger Cloud Integration Automation Services (CIAS) scenarios
Processes : contained CIAS are linked to tasks in SAP Cloud ALM
flagged

• Review CIAS scenarios in business processes and scope them

Get link to CIAS scenarios in a task • Get deep links to maintenance planner for execution of CIAS
triggered by scope
scenarios

• Get automated, standardized and role based guided integration

Execute CIAS scenarios through workflow
Maintenance Planner

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Partner Strategy
Bring your own content in SAP Cloud ALM

Requirements,
Methodology Processes Test cases User Stories,
Defects, …

Mass Upload and Mass In Process Authoring Create own manual test Create Templates for
Update in Task create own Solution cases in Test Preparation. Requirements, User Stories
Management supports Processes. Model Solution With Mass Upload and and Defects directly in SAP
customers and partners to Value Flows, Solution Mass Update customers Cloud ALM.
import their own Process Flows and and partners can import
With Mass Upload and
Methodology content into diagrams. own Test content into SAP
Mass Update customers
SAP Cloud ALM. Cloud ALM.
Upload own content with and partners can import
Upload own methodology open APIs for Upload test content with their own content into SAP
content with open APIs for Process Scope and open APIs for Test Cloud ALM.
Project and Tasks. Custom Process. Automation and Test
cases*.

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 ALM Consulting and Extension Partner

Consulting and Integrate Capability

Integration Services Third Party Tools Extensions

• Provide Training and Consulting Services for • Integrate SAP Cloud ALM in existing • Extend SAP Cloud ALM capabilities for
SAP Cloud ALM for the customer base customer and partner tools Implementation and Operations and innovate
on top of SAP ALM core capabilities
• Support customers with basic setup, • Leverage Open APIs in SAP API Business
connectivity and use case implementation Hub • Offer your own extensions of SAP Cloud ALM
in SAP store and make it available for all SAP
• Be an agile methodology and tool coach for • Available APIs, January 2024
Cloud ALM Customer and Partner
implementation projects Projects, Tasks, Process Scope, Custom Process,
• Support the move from SAP Solution
Analytics, Projects, Test Automation, Documents • Discus with us your opportunities with
Resource Changes, Event Situations, SAP Cloud ALM Partner Whitespaces
Manager or 3rd party solutions over to SAP Business Service Management and many more…
Cloud ALM

Join us on ALMathon 2024 and present your partner innovations on top of SAP Cloud ALM !

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Extending SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

Implementation Content Third Party Integration Capability Extension

Project
Methodology
API CIAS

Test Automation SAP Activate Native

CTMS

BTC

API Methodology Integrations

Tricentis
Test
Analytics Preparation Signavio

Solution
Documentatio Tasks
n

Process
Test Execution Task Management

Process Task Management

Process Scoping
Analytics

Scope API API Project Defects API

Integrations Features*
Deployment Tools
SAP Standard Custom Process
Process
Process
Authoring Test Automation
Content

Tags

Custom Analytics
Process API API
Processes Test cases

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More ALM Partner Programs

ALM Partner Hub References

• Find SAP Cloud ALM Partner

• Partner References • Customer Stories on
Support Portal
• Membership Information
• Partner References on
Link to ALM Partner Hub ALM Partner Hub

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Summary and
Outlook
 SAP Cloud ALM for implementation

SAP Cloud ALM for implementation provides

the harmonized implementation for the
intelligent enterprise, covering all relevant SAP
solutions for cloud centric customers

• 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
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SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation - Roadmap

Go to https://roadmaps.sap.com/
and search for SAP Cloud ALM to
get the always up-to-date
roadmap with links to more
information and demos

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 SAP Continuous Influence for SAP Cloud ALM

Customers/partners Community SAP

submit requests ranks via voting reviews and develops

Available today!

Implementation Operations Service

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SAP Cloud ALM Resources

Getting started Learning and Services

• SAP Cloud ALM Usage Rights • SAP Cloud ALM Learning Portal
• Which applications are supported? • SAP Services for SAP Cloud ALM
• What are the typical entry points? • SAP Cloud ALM demo tenant
• How to get started?

In-depth Exploration Staying connected and Influencing

• SAP Cloud ALM Homepage • Product Roadmap
• Help Portal for SAP Cloud ALM • Events and Newsletter
• Expert Portals for Implementation, Operations, • Community
and Service
• SAP Continuous Influence Program for Implementation,
• Transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM Operations and Service

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Thank you.
Contact information:

cloudalm@sap.com

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