Is the SAP Solution Manager just checklist software? ALM for SAP? Well, we have the Solution Manager!
Indeed: take any checklist for Application Lifecycle Management, and you can be sure that the SAP Solution Manager has placed its green checkmark in every area. So you can sit back and, with the implementation of the SAP Solution Manager, have the topic of Application Lifecycle Management fully covered.
You already sense that I don’t want to sit back so quickly. An ALM solution has its optimal value when all parts mesh together and can be connected into a closed process.
The SAP Solution Manager now offers good individual solutions for many areas of ALM — however, in the fully integrated ALM I have sketched, there are still some gaps to be closed, as the integration of the individual lifecycle phases has not yet progressed very far.
Conclusion: There are already successful reference projects in which, with the help of the right tools and methods, integrated ALM solutions for SAP environments have been created.
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