In mid-2024, SAP announced the discontinuation of SAP Landscape Management (“LaMa”). This wasn’t a huge surprise, as the 2027 end-of-support date aligns neatly with Solution Manager, Focused Run and standard support for ECC. SAP also terminated work on SAP Landscape Management Cloud, discontinuing that product immediately.
You can read more about this, including related SAP Notes and the official "Dear John" letter from SAP here: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-landscape-management-cloud-discontinued/ba-p/13759530
Responses to the post were as expected: customers asking, “What now?” and even expressing a bit of dismay. One response from SAP was especially telling:
“Moving the ERP system to the cloud hands over the tasks realized with SAP Landscape Management to SAP as cloud vendor. Therefore, your assumption is correct that there won’t be a solution from SAP anymore to operate SAP Basis tasks.”
LaMageddon
So, is SAP out of the Basis business?
The short answer is no, but it's worth understanding why the product strategy change makes sense for SAP, even if it results in temporary pain for SAP customers.
SAP is transitioning focus to the upper-middle market, the tier of enterprises just below the biggest-of-the-biggest companies traditionally associated with SAP. This target segment is well served by SAP Cloud ERP Public, and it’s a large growth opportunity for SAP.
With Public Cloud, there’s simply less need for a solution like LaMa. Those customers aren’t provisioning project landscapes, they aren’t managing complex load-balanced application servers independently, and those environments are managed by the cloud vendor, just as the quote above describes.
There is still work to be done
Existing large enterprise customers and operators like MSPs have different stories.
Existing SAP customers and very large enterprises are much more likely to operate a mix of on premises deployments and/or Cloud ERP Private (RISE) editions versus SAP’s upper middle market targets where Cloud ERP Public (Grow) is an excellent fit.
For these customers, SAP largely runs today as it did yesterday. So, if upgrade trends from R3 and ECC are indicators of future outcomes, these firms will run SAP on premise for many decades to come, too.
These environments benefit from LaMa: they are provisioning systems; they are orchestrating backups; they are performing regular system refresh. These tasks are at least partially addressed by the discontinued SAP Landscape Management solution.
Basis begins to RISE
Cloud ERP Private customers are in a similar situation. As we’ve documented in our analysis of SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE) and optional Cloud Application Services, customers of SAP Cloud ERP Private retain considerable control over their deployment, and with it the responsibility for many (or most) basis operations tasks above the infrastructure layer.
In fact, our experience suggests Private Cloud often increases Basis workloads because teams are stuck managing both legacy systems and new cloud environments simultaneously, especially during the years required for a full migration to Cloud ERP.
Once live in Cloud ERP Private, what would have been called “basis” with on-premises is commonly called Cloud Application Services – extras you can elect to pay for – or Excluded Services – tasks you must take responsibility for yourself (or hire a firm to manage). Many of these tasks are the types of tasks LaMa provided some level of automation or management to assist.
Life after LaMa: Enter Avantra
As of 2026, the combined footprint of Private Cloud and on-premises landscapes accounts for about 75% of SAP production landscapes worldwide. If you fall into that majority, you still need automation.
Avantra provides the comprehensive coverage LaMa left behind – and then some. And unlike generic cloud tooling, Avantra is purpose-built for SAP. Imagine fully automating system refreshes and backups, kernel patching and certificate management and configuration drift detection and HotNews analysis just for starters.
Whether you are on-premises or navigating a Private Cloud transition, your operations shouldn't suffer because a tool went end-of-life. Avantra automation works anywhere SAP runs, even in Private Cloud ERP.
Sound good?
Reach out to an Avantra expert reach out to our team and let’s chat about future-proofing your SAP operations in a post-LaMa world.