Beyond Solution Manager: Managing The Transition With Confidence

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Beyond Solution Manager: Managing The Transition With Confidence

SAP Solution Manager’s standard support timeline is prompting a major shift in planning for SAP customers worldwide. As organizations map out their path through 2027 and beyond, those running ECC, S/4HANA on-premise, or hybrid environments have an opportunity to evaluate how they’ll sustain and modernize their SAP operations approach.

In this whitepaper, “Beyond Solution Manager: Managing The Transition With Confidence,” Avantra explores the operational and strategic considerations of this shift, from maintaining strong monitoring, automation, and change management capabilities to evaluating complementary tools that support customers on their SAP journey.

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Key Learnings and Challenges Explored

The whitepaper dives deep into the planning considerations, gaps, and opportunities created by the Solution Manager transition and what this means for large enterprises:

  • Standard support timeline in 2027: Key Solution Manager capabilities, including monitoring, infrastructure management, change control, and testing, will require extended support arrangements to continue as-is.
  • Evolving functionality in SAP Cloud ALM: As the strategic path forward, Cloud ALM continues to expand its capabilities, with enterprises evaluating how it fits complex on-premise and hybrid SAP landscapes today.
  • Operational planning during transition: Enterprises benefit from proactively addressing monitoring coverage, automation continuity, and compliance requirements as they plan their tooling roadmap.
  • Complex hybrid environments: Managing ECC, S/4HANA, RISE, and hyperscaler deployments simultaneously adds complexity to that planning.
  • Need for specialized functionality:Enterprises will benefit from advanced monitoring, automation, and security tools that complement SAP’s native offerings and support their specific landscape needs.

With the transition timeline in view, organizations have an opportunity to assess the right mix of tools to maintain performance, security, and operational resilience.

Key Solutions and Strategic Recommendations

Transitioning your Solution Manager strategy doesn’t have to be disruptive. With Avantra, enterprises can not only extend and strengthen their existing capabilities but also future-proof their SAP operations with smarter automation, lower costs, and greater efficiency. Now you’re really running.