Do you regularly work with several systems and cloud services? Are you looking for a central application to monitor the successful execution of business processes in those systems and services?  SAP Marketing Cloud can be monitored with SAP Cloud ALM, a cloud-based tool for application lifecycle management. You can monitor, for example, the successful execution of application jobs.    The monitoring offers....

In this series of blog post, we cover different use-cases of integration between SAP Cloud ALM and external ALM services. All Integration scenario of SAP Cloud ALM are based on the public APIs listed in the SAP Business Accelerator Hub.   Objectives Status events are managed by the business service management applications. Check the SAP support portal for more information. When status events are created in....

Since the ABAP environment in SAP BTP typically interacts with other BTP services, you may be interested in a performance monitoring of such outbound communication. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can use the System Outbound Communication app in the ABAP environment. You can even get alerted by mail if the performance of a specific outbound....

In this series of blog post, we cover different use-cases of integration between SAP Cloud ALM and external ALM services. All Integration scenario of SAP Cloud ALM are based on the public APIs listed in the SAP API Business Hub.   Objectives You want to forward SAP Cloud ALM monitoring events to external chat tools to create messages in chat channels.  ....

SAP Cloud Transport Management service lets you manage software deliverables between accounts of different environments (such as Neo and Cloud Foundry), by transporting them across various runtimes. This includes application artifacts as well as their respective application-specific content. SAP Cloud Transport Management service adds transparency to the audit trail of changes so that you get information....

SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP provides a self-service tool to analyze an existing SAP Solution Manager system in preparation for a transition to SAP Cloud ALM. SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM provides visibility to the application lifecycle management capabilities used in an SAP Solution Manager system. This new SAP Readiness....

With this series of blogs, we want to keep you informed on the latest news and what is important in the area of SAP ALM APIs and integration for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Run and SAP Solution Manager. Previous Blogs: Q3 updates Q4 updates   Q1 Updates External API Management – Github SAP SAMPLES....

API testing plays a crucial role in software development, and with Tricentis Test Automation for SAP (TTA) & SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis (ECT), developers can ensure that their APIs are reliable, scalable, and meet industry standards. This article will focus exclusively on the topic of API Testing. Furthermore, a forthcoming blog post will cover the topic of Orchestrated Service....

In SAP Cloud ALM, we’ve been incrementally adding features to our APIs. We’ve reached a critical mass, allowing you to powerfully automate implementation projects and create new added value. To help you get started, we recently published a Jupyter notebook containing example API calls for a scenario of interest to many SAP partners: taking a....

As customer or partner, you might want to know more about the health of your ABAP system in a cloud-centric system landscape. Now, you might already be aware that you can use SAP Cloud ALM as the central entry point to monitor your solution landscape. What’s probably less well known is that SAP Cloud ALM....

When you read this, the Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM is general available. SAP made it available earlier today! The Readiness Check gives you clear insights in your SAP Solution Manager capabilities, reflected to SAP Cloud ALM. In my other blog, recapping the ALM Partner Conference EMEA 2023, I already stated that a lot is going....

In this blog, we will explore how to combine interface and jobs monitoring in a single report with the SAP Cloud ALM analytics API. Introduction Key users from business departments and/or functional consultants need to answer to the following questions: Are the interfaces to external systems working, Are there any errors in sending/receiving messages, Did the partner receive the message,....

Integration Monitoring for the SAP Integration Suite with Cloud ALM is a feature that allows users to monitor the performance and health of their integration flows in real-time. The SAP Integration Suite is a cloud-based integration platform that helps organizations connect their business processes, data, and systems across different applications and technologies. It provides users....

This blog goes over the required steps necessary to enable SAP Cloud ALM Health Monitoring for SAP Cloud Connector Introduction Nowadays the migration from on-prems apps to cloud I/P/SaaS is buzzing and of course SAP couldn’t leave monitoring market behind… I decide to write my first blog (so be patient with me!) about CALM Health Monitoring....

“How to create custom workstreams and deliverables in SAP Cloud ALM?”, that was what I had in my mind recently. I really like Cloud ALM for its in-built Activate Framework, Agile and Scrum etc. and associated workstreams, deliverables, tasks and accelerators thereunder. So, I have searched in Google for how to create custom workstreams and....

When events are created in SAP Cloud ALM, you would like to forward those events to an external ticketing system to create an incident or a case.   Introduction In the previous blog, you can learn how to setup and configure automatic tickets creation from events managed by SAP Cloud ALM. Check also the following link to get more information on how....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Status Events entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin.   Pre-requisites You have created a service key to your SAP Cloud ALM tenants (check this blog). You should configure a Grafana data source connected to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant.....

In this blog, we will explore how to monitor and report Fiori Application performance with SAP Cloud ALM Real User Monitoring.   SAP Fiori Application monitoring is about getting insights in how your Fiori Launchpad is used. What Fiori Applications are used ? What is the usage of the Fiori applications in terms of the number....

SAP Cloud ALM, the SAP Application Lifecycle Management platform in the cloud, comes with several services, especially in the Run area, that can trigger events. These events are usually configurable either from the service’s configuration page or from Intelligent Event Processing service. In some cases, we need to forward important events or alerts to an external application. A typical....

When implementing S/4HANA Cloud (public edition) projects, SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) is the recommended tool to manage projects. In terms of managing project scope, there is a scoping exercise where you have to select the relevant business processes. While it is flexible to define scopes (e.g. based on country, functionalities, sites with own tenants, etc.),....

When configuring a Synthetic User Monitoring (SUM) Selenium Runner, two types of configurations are possible: Internet and On-Premise. With the On-Premise option, a dedicated, local web driver infrastructure must be setup to host the different Selenium components. Once the on-premise Selenium infrastructure is in place, the related endpoints must be exposed to the SUM Runner configuration. The goal of....

In this series of blog we will focus on integrating the SAP Cloud ALM API with a SAP Build application to demonstrate how to extend SAP Cloud ALM with custom functionality.   In this blog, we will be developing a simple Build Apps app where we can interact with our projects and tasks inside a given destination linking to our SAP Cloud ALM....

SAP Activate provides methodology and end-to-end guidance for implementing SAP solutions. SAP Cloud ALM provides functionality to extend the same great Activate methodology through project management and execution support. In this blog, I will point out how several SAP Cloud ALM features are used to facilitate SAP Activate tasks and procedures. For a video on....

This blog is part of a blog series, so you can find the first page here (https://blogs.sap.com/2023/02/02/sap-cpi-ci-cd-from-from-zero-to-hero/). This is the agenda we’re following: Backup Binaries and Source Code Code inspection and quality control Release management Certificates expiration (explained in this page) Automated Testing Documentation Code Review Certificates expiration Certificates are one of the most powerful....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create 2 panels displaying analytics for Real User Monitoring data managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin.   Pre-requisites You have created a service key to your SAP Cloud ALM tenants (check this blog). You should configure a Grafana data source connected to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant.....

To learn about and experiment with the SAP Cloud ALM Analytics API , you can check out this Postman Collection. You just need to retrieve your apiKey from SAP API Business Hub to try the OData and REST interfaces with the Postman client. Another way to discover the interface with the mouse is to use the SAP ALM Plug-in for Grafana with....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Requirements entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin.   Pre-requisites You have created a service key to your SAP Cloud ALM tenants (check this blog). You should configure a Grafana data source connected to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant. You....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Test Executions entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the SAP ALM Grafana plugin. This plug-in lets you extend your analytics solutions for application life-cycle management. This plugin is based on the SAP ALM analytics API. The main concepts of the SAP ALM Analytics....

With this series of blogs, we want to keep you informed on the latest news and what is important in the area of SAP ALM APIs and integration for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Run and SAP Solution Manager.   Motivation Today, ALM practice must connect different teams from different locations, platforms, solutions and tools....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Health Monitoring data managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin. This plug-in lets you extend your analytics solutions for application life-cycle management. This plugin is based on the SAP ALM analytics API. The main concepts of the SAP ALM Analytics API....

In this series of blog we will focus on integrating the SAP Cloud ALM API with a SAP Build application to demonstrate how to extend SAP Cloud ALM with custom functionality. This blog describes how to setup your SAP Build environment and the connectivity to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant: SAP Build Apps environment setup Connect your SAP Build....

In my previous blog Use SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) System to Monitor Your SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-System Landscape Systems – Part 1: Setup, I detailed the steps to set up CALM for a 3-system landscape systems.  It discussed the special handling of different errors which are usually not documented in SAP Help Portal documentations.....

SAP released a new SAP Cloud ALM scenario in 2022 that is pretty similar to what you would find in SAP Solution Manager (User Experience Monitoring) and Focused Run (Advanced User Monitoring). This new “Synthetic User Monitoring” (SUM) is essentially a lightweight alternative to bulkier but much more powerful solutions for continuous performance monitoring, such....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will link 2 dashboards (overview and details) with a contextual navigation between Projects and Tasks entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the SAP ALM Grafana plugin. The details dashboard is parametrised with two variables for project and scope. The overview dashboard uses a url link to navigate to the target dashboard passing....

In this blog, I would like to show how you can copy and adjust BPMN flows that come with SAP Best Practice and Reference processes using SAP Cloud ALM. Customize SAP practices Let’s start SAP Cloud ALM and, click the “Process” tile to navigate to the Process app. In the Process app you find all processes....

First of all, I would like to thank SAP Labs India, for organizing this amazing event – SAP ALM Partner Conference APJ 2022 which happened on November 17,2022 Special thanks to Marc Thier, Michael Kloeffer, Janko Budzisch for providing us so many insights about SAP Cloud ALM and its capabilities. So, based on my understanding from attending this....

In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Defects entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin.   Pre-requisites You have created a service key to your SAP Cloud ALM tenants (check this blog). You should configure a Grafana data source connected to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant. You have configured at least one....

The SAP ALM Analytics API lets you create dashboards and reports that aggregate data managed by SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Focused Run. It comes with OData and REST endpoints exposing ALM analytics data. The SAP ALM analytics API is documented in the SAP API Business Hub. With the ALM plug-in for REST interface you can connect your SAP Cloud ALM tenants or....

In this blog, we will create a panel displaying the status of selected projects managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin. This plug-in lets you extend your analytics solutions for application life-cycle management. This plugin is based on the SAP ALM analytics API. The main concepts of the SAP ALM Analytics API can be found in....

The world is changing, software evolves and the era of ordinary alert emails is also coming to an end. Welcome to Alerting 2.0! Starring SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation and Microsoft Teams. This blog will not explain how to connect SAP iRPA with SAP Cloud ALM. Check out the excellent expert portal for that....

Goal of this blog post In this blog, we will create panels displaying analytics for Tasks entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin. This plug-in lets you extend your analytics solutions for application life-cycle management. This plugin is based on the SAP ALM analytics API. The main concepts of the SAP ALM Analytics API can be found....

Goal of this blog post This blog explains how to enable and use the “Screenshots” features of SAP Cloud ALM Synthetic User Monitoring.     Introduction Synthetic User Monitoring (SUM) is a monitoring application/technology of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations that allows you to monitor the performance and availability of a production web application from a client-side perspective. SUM....

Goal of this blog series With this series of blogs, we want to keep you informed on the latest news and what is important in the area of SAP ALM APIs and integration for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Run and SAP Solution Manager.   Motivation Today, ALM tool chain must connect different teams from different locations, platforms, solutions and tools relying on....

Similar as the SAP Solution Manager for the on-premises-centric solutions, SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) system is designed to monitor your cloud-centric landscapes, including both cloud solutions as well as on-premises solutions.  Its functions are divided into four categories: CALM for Implementation – includes project management, integration with Central Business Configuration (CBC), test preparation....

Overview All your Robotic process automation jobs, their environment backlogs and status can now be monitored via SAP Cloud ALM Platform. By integrating SAP Intelligent RPA with SAP Cloud ALM, an administrator can monitor unattended jobs, API triggered jobs, and the environment backlog in the Cloud Factory. SAP Cloud ALM receives information from SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation by....

SAP Cloud ALM is an application lifetime management system designed by SAP to help project managers and the program office deal with software releases and updates. Built to help businesses with implementation challenges, SAP Cloud ALM gives enterprises a suite of tools that they can use to onboard multiple different departments and keep everyone “in....

Real User Monitoring is one application out of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations. Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a monitoring application/technology that analyses end-user’s experience for on-premise or cloud-based application. It provides permanent measurement of all real user requests in a system landscape covering performance as well as utilisation aspects. RUM differs from Synthetic User Monitoring (SUM) in that it....

Synthetic User Monitoring is one application out of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations. Synthetic user monitoring (SUM) is a monitoring application/technology that allows you to monitor the performance and availability of a production web application from a client-side perspective. Real user monitoring (RUM) and SUM are the perfect combination to understand users behaviour and monitor proactively on-premise or cloud-based....

Run Operations for SAP software systems and services are typically embedded in the organizational and procedural models and practices of Customer Center of Expertise (CCOE) and therein the Operations Control Center (OCC). The latter is responsible for the two main processes of Run Operations scenario Detect-to-Correct:  Event Management and Continuous Improvement. Customer Center of Expertise with Operations Control Center....

SAP Cloud ALMは2020年5月に公開されたALM（アプリケーションライフサイクル管理）ソリューションで、導入から運用までのシステムライフサイクルに合わせて各機能を提供しています。昨今はクラウド化の影響もあり、ハイブリッド環境を運用されるお客様が増えてきているかと思います。こちらのブログではハイブリッド環境のエンドツーエンドの監視を実現するIntegration & Exception Monitoring (統合＆例外監視) の機能概要、エラー分析方法についてご紹介します。   Integration & Exception Monitoring – 機能概要 先にも述べさせていただきましたが、昨今では、上の図に示したようなオンプレミス・クラウド環境にてシステムを運用するハイブリッド環境を持つお客様が増えてきていると思います。このような環境では、各システムが安定して稼働していることはもちろん、システム間のデータ連携が正確かつ期待通りに処理されていることも重要になってきます。そこでIntegration & Exception Monitoringでは、以下の機能を提供しています。   監視機能 さまざまなインタフェース間の受信/送信メッセージを監視し、例外・エラーを取得することが可能です。また、ハイブリッド環境は複雑なアーキテクチャで構成されるため、どこで問題が発生しているのか、原因を見つけることの難度が上がってしまうことが課題点として挙げられますが、Integration & Exception Monitoringでは、監視対象サービス/システムでの処理フローをシナリオとして定義することで、オンプレミス・クラウド環境を横断するような処理に対してもエンドツーエンドの監視を実現し、問題の特定・深堀を行うことができます。シナリオで発生したエラーのドリルダウンの方法は後ほどご紹介させていただきます。   図1.例外セクションの画面     検索・トラッキング 受注番号や従業員IDなど、一部の特定の(ビジネス)コンテキスト属性や、メッセージIDのようなテクニカルコンテキスト属性にてメッセージの検索・トラッキングを行うことができます。ビジネス面で懸念点があった場合など、この機能を用いてメッセージのトラッキングを行い、問題の特定に役立てることができます。   図2.トラッキングセクションの画面   アラート Integration & Exception Monitoringではアラートを追加することで、通知を受け取ることが可能になります。アラートはアラート受信ボックスに格納され、分析のためにドリルダウンすることや、アラート担当者の割り当てなどアラートに対するアクションを設定することができます。また、アラートに対してお客様要件に応じたしきい値を設定することも可能です。   図3.アラート受信ボックスの画面   なお、サポート対象とするSAP製品の拡充を現在も図ってはおりますが、最新のサポート対象の製品情報はこちらからご確認ください。   定義したシナリオで発生したエラー分析方法のご紹介 Integration & Exception Monitoringの機能についてご紹介させていただきましたが、本ブログでは機能を利用する際の一例として、シナリオ内で発生したエラー内容のドリルダウンを行っていきます。今回は、SAP S/4HANA Cloud、SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG)、SAP Ariba....

Synthetic User Monitoring is a newest app in SAP Cloud ALM. In this app you are informed about availability and performance issues of your web applications before end users are getting affected by it. It does so, by executing on a regular schedule custom Selenium IDE scripts. By the way: SUM is not meant for application....

In this series of blog post, we cover different use-cases of integration between SAP Cloud ALM and external ALM services. All Integration scenario of SAP Cloud ALM are based on the public APIs listed in the SAP API Business Hub. Objectives When events are created in SAP Cloud ALM, you would like to forward those events to an external ticketing system to create an....

SAP Business Technology Platform Concepts (Source: Basic Platform Concepts – SAP Help Portal) In this blog, you can find a short overview of the SAP Business Technology Platforms concepts.   SAP BTP offers users the ability to build and extend SAP applications quickly. SAP BTP comprises solutions spanning data and analytics, application development and automation, integration, enterprise planning and artificial intelligence technologies. Check-out this page to get more information to discover how SAP Business Technology....

Let us discuss about Cloud ALM product offering from SAP. SAP Cloud ALM is a cloud-based tool for application lifecycle management, delivers a seamless and harmonized implementation SAP Cloud ALM is included in cloud subscription with SAP Enterprise support and cloud editions. Currently all SAP Cloud offerings, BTP products, S4HANA cloud, S4HANA on premise and....

Since beginning of May, 2022 the integration between SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Cloud Transport Management is generally available (see the announcement here and here). My colleague Moritz Gysler has already described in this blog post ‘Enabling Change & Deployment Management in SAP Cloud ALM for SAP Integration Suite – Cloud Integration‘ how to set up this integration for the....

In this blog post I will explain the end-to-end process to setup exception monitoring for Extensibility Transport Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems including the creation of Alerts via Notification Management. SAP Cloud ALM is a cloud-based innovation platform for cloud centric customers as well as for small and medium hybrid customers. From a problem management....

Introduction Testing is crucial for SAP S/4HANA Cloud projects. You want to ensure that your business processes run as designed after go-live. In this blog post, I will explain how the SAP Cloud ALM can be integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud system to run the Automated test scripts directly from SAP Cloud ALM. This blog....

In this series of blog post, we will cover different use-cases of integration between SAP Cloud ALM and external ALM services. All Integration scenario of SAP Cloud ALM are based on the public APIs listed of the SAP API Business Hub. Objectives When events are created in SAP Cloud ALM, you would like to forward those events to an external ticketing system by applying....

This blog post describes the way to work with processes in SAP Clod ALM. The blog post implies following pre-requisites: SAP Cloud ALM project is created Initial scope of the project as solution scenario “SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud” is defined:   Start of work Once the initial set-up of Project in SAP Cloud ALM is done and solution scenario(s) is defined,....

The goal of this blog is to share some practices and experiences for creating Continuous Deployment Dashboards with SAP Focused RUN.   Context This content is based on the tools and the concepts operated for the deployment of SAP Cloud ALM.  SAP Cloud ALM is the platform for the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for the Intelligent Enterprise. The scope and the type of the....

Einführung In diesem Blogpost möchte ich auf die Fragestellung “Wie man Qualität in SAP S/4HANA Projekten messbar macht” eingehen. Für die Dimension Qualität existiert keine Einheit wie Beispielsweise für  Zeit (Jahre, Monate, Tage, Stunden, Minuten, Sekunden), Kosten ($, €, £, etc.) oder den Leistungsumfang (definierte Lieferobjekte, Funktionen, Prozesse). Es ist daher umso schwieriger, die Dimension Qualität messbar....

Intro Change enablement and deployment orchestration is still a key to keep the production environment stable and reliable. In SAP Cloud ALM software changes can be managed via features. The business transaction feature holds the change documentation together with the change containers – mainly transport requests. In this blog post you will learn more about....

We’re rolling out a number of new features to SAP Cloud ALM Tasks and Requirements. One important feature you should know about is that we have made deleting items (Tasks, Sub-Tasks, User Stories, Requirements) into a two step approach. You must first set a Task/Requirement/User Story to obsolete before you may delete it. You’ll see....

As we do every  second week, the SAP Cloud ALM team has released a number of new features today (Wednesday, January 26 2022). I’ll give a brief outline of the new features for the Projects, Tasks, and Requirements apps here. Important! You May Now only Delete Tasks, User Stories, and Requirements if You First Set....

Today, January 26, 2022, is SAP Cloud ALM feature delivery day. I posted previously summarizing these new features. Here, I want to post in some detail about a nice new personalization feature: marking items in the Tasks and Requirements lists as favorites. Mark Items As Favorites: They’re Yours, and Yours Alone You may have already noticed....

Welcome to another edition of the release highlights blog for the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool. As SAP S/4HANA Cloud moves towards delivering frequent innovations via the continuous delivery for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, test automation and its corresponding processes also need to evolve. With the 2202 release customers have greater flexibility in Post Upgrade Tests(PUT) to create their....

Realizing the full value of your SAP SuccessFactors investment requires a focus on application lifecycle management (ALM). SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. SAP Cloud ALM for SAP SuccessFactors: Delivers a self-guided and content-driven implementation workspace based on SAP Activate Supplies operational monitoring for business processes and integrations to minimize disruptions Is included with....

Find here an overview of the SAP Enterprise Support Academy monthly newsletter on latest news, achievements, and educational offerings. The SAP Enterprise Support Academy provides expert guidance and high impact knowledge transfer services that enable you to innovate and be successful with SAP solutions, no matter your choice of deployment. Subscribe to regularly receive latest news and stay....

    Thank you to all who tuned in to my keynote at the ASUG Next-Generation SAP Center of Excellence virtual conference on May 4, 2021, and for your interest in learning more about the topics that are relevant to your Customer Center of Excellence (Customer COE) and that make it the foundation to your....

This blog outlines the new personalization features that are offered in Overview Page of SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation. With the set of new features introduced in Overview Page, it is now possible to personalize overview page to best fit your role-based requirements. Roles such as Project Leads, Business experts, Change managers, Test Managers and other....

Transitioning to the cloud is now more efficient, user friendly and quicker than ever before thanks to SAPs new cloud-based Application Lifecycle Management offering, SAP Cloud ALM. Targeted at cloud-centric customers, it provides simplified implementation of cloud-based solutions and our new openSAP Course “Accelerate Cloud Implementations with SAP Cloud ALM” will provide you with the knowledge required....

Previous articles describe the Operations Control Center (OCC) as an integral part of SAP’s best practice operational model for IT organizations. Examples of advanced topics and applications relevant in and for the Operations Control Center can e.g. be found in part 1 (Robotic Process Automation), part 2 (Conversational Artificial Intelligence), part 3 (Intelligent Operations Analytics), and part 4 (Simplified Process Monitoring) of this article series. Intelligent....

Introduction SAP recently announced the launch of SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (for better readability I will use the term SAP Cloud ALM ) , a brand new cloud-based solution built on SAP cloud platform for managing all lifecycle aspects of cloud and hybrid solutions. This blog post gives an overview of what SAP Cloud....