SAP Cloud ALM

Optimize your ALM practices with SAP Cloud ALM! Get started by deploying SAP Cloud ALM, defining your project scope, and exploring the tools you’ll use. Walk through process management, requirements management, and fit-to-standard workshops. Create and execute tests and then deploy your project, focusing on release and change management features. Follow a continuous example throughout this guide to ensure your SAP Cloud ALM projects run smoothly!

• Manage on-premise and cloud application lifecycles with SAP Cloud ALM
• Walk through an SAP Cloud ALM project, from planning and preparation to deployment and operations
• See how SAP Cloud ALM supports extensions and integration

In this book, you'll:

1.Prepare and Explore

Get to know the SAP Activate methodology for application lifecycle management; then define the tasks, phases, teams, and overall scope of your project. Create a solution process flow, specify your requirements, and prepare for testing.

2.Realize and Deploy

Walk through sprints and user stories and then create tests for manual and automated execution. Bring it all together and finally deploy SAP Cloud ALM in your cloud or hybrid landscape!

3.Run

Operate, extend, and integrate SAP Cloud ALM! With information on business service management, user monitoring, email notifications, inbound/outbound interfaces, APIs, and so much more, this guide gives you everything you need!

Highlights include:

• Deployment
• SAP Activate
• Agile methodology
• Project scope
• Process management
• Requirements management
• Test management
• Change enablement
• Operations
• Extensions
• Integration

About the Author

Matthias Friedrich has worked at NTT DATA Business Solution GBMS GmbH since 2008, where he is responsible for the global innovation and optimization service area. With a global team, he supports customers in the expansion, optimization, and development of existing and new applications and their integration into business processes. He is a business IT specialist and began his career in 1998 at SAP Systems Integration AG in Dresden. The focus of his work was on the analysis and development of IT service and change management concepts, the coordination of resulting national and international projects, and the implementation of exciting product ideas.

Fred Kindler has a degree in business informatics and began his career at NTT DATA Business Solution GBMS GmbH in Dresden in 2011. In addition to consulting in the field of ALM, he is currently responsible for managing an ALM team and for the global topic of application transition in the application solution advisory division. His focus is on advising on ALM processes required to implement hybrid landscapes in the cloud.

Marcel Kirsten has worked at NTT DATA Business Solutions GBMS GmbH in Dresden since 2016. Since completing his master's degree at Chemnitz University of Technology, he has been working as a consultant in the field of application lifecycle management with a focus on application operations. In addition to supporting implementation projects in the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 environment, he is also responsible for the development and implementation of monitoring services in the context of SAP Focused Run. Since 2020, his areas of expertise have also included SAP Cloud ALM. He advises and supports customers on the introduction and implementation of SAP Cloud ALM in their landscapes.

Daniel Kloppich is an expert in application lifecycle management at NTT DATA Business Solutions GBMS GmbH in Dresden. He is responsible for IT service management in hybrid landscapes with a focus on process consulting for transition and operations on a global level. He began his career in 2009 as a consultant at Comarch AG in the telecommunications division. Prior to this, he studied media informatics at the Technical University of Dresden.

Mathias List is an ALM expert with many years of experience and has been working for NTT DATA Business Solutions GBMS GmbH since 2022. He began his career in 2008 as an SAP consultant for SAP Solution Manager at BIT Group GmbH. There he developed his expertise in the field of IT service management and change and release management. In his national and international consulting and implementation projects, he uses methodological approaches such as ITIL and Scrum. He is the author of two SAP PRESS books about IT service management with SAP Solution Manager. He uses his knowledge and experience in projects relating to ALM solutions such as SAP Cloud ALM. Mathias studied business informatics at BA Bautzen.

Bert Lorenz is a development consultant at NTT DATA Business Solutions GBMS GmbH and has already supported more than 100 customers in the areas of SAP Business Technology Platform, automation, low code, integration, and application lifecycle management. At NTT DATA Business Solutions, he is responsible for global development operations within the SAP and application services division and is committed to the continuous integration of the methodology into the business area.