Solutions for the end of Solution Manager

Many SAP customers are already familiar with the scheduled end of support for ECC and the same is also true for SAP Solution Manager. This means many SAP customers have no option but to modernize and transform their SAP operations systems before 2027. 

For customers without an extended on premise support contract, access to common features will end across Solution Manager including monitoring, infrastructure management, change management, testing and test data and many other core IT operations. The recommended replacement for Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, is years away from complete feature parity and will never have parity in some areas. 

This paper explores the operational exposures for SAP customers with the end of Solution Manager and the functional loss in many IT Operations categories. The exploration extends to the gap for large enterprise customers with any mix of ECC on prem, S/4HANA on prem, hyperscaler environments and RISE without Solution Manager. 

A specific focus is placed on the functionality of SAP Solution Manager for monitoring and automation, Focused Run and SAP LaMa products, and suitable 3rd party solutions to replace and improve the end of support situation for customers presently using these technologies.