General Availability of SAP Solution Manager 7.2!!!
We are happy to announce the general availability of SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
The new release of the management platform provides significant improvements throughout the entire life cycle of SAP solutions:
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 provides best-in-class support for SAP S/4HANA by leveraging SAP Best Practices
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is the delivery platform for Digital Business Services providing model companies for jump-starting implementations and tight collaboration between customer projects and experts at SAP
- User Experience has been a major investment area with clear focus on SAP Fiori-based user interfaces, the easy access via the launch pad, unification and simplification
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 has strengthened its business focus. The new Process Management provides state-of-the-art support from business processes modelling to business process operations. We also made it easier for business users to handle relevant SAP Solution Manager functions
- Customers gain best-in-class support for agile innovation projects from requirements to deploy
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 continues to provide support of the latest technologies, like hybrid and cloud-based solutions
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is the first release that leverages the SAP HANA database. SAP HANA for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 does not need to be licensed separately since it is included in the maintenance contract
More than 400 customers and partners have experienced the new release already as part of the Early Adopter Care program. We received very positive feedback.
Do you want to learn more about SAP Solution Manager 7.2?
There is a wide variety of options to do so:
Videos
Watch video playlists on YouTube to gain further details:
Media Center
The SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Media Center contains educational video units for different roles ranging from manager overviews to expert sessions.
Early Knowledge Transfer
Register for the Early Knowledge Transfer for SAP Solution Manager 7.2, SP03 to access learning maps proven in early adopter care (
Trial Environment
The SAP Cloud Appliance Library offers the option that customers can order a private demo and sandbox environment to get hands-on experience of SAP Solution Manager 7.2. You can get an image copy of an SAP Solution Manager 7.2 images as 90-day trial version (please keep in mind that an AWS account is required).
Events
If your customers want to learn more about SAP Solution Manager 7.2, you can forward them to any of the upcoming events:
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Roadshows are conducted at various locations throughout the year
- SAP TechEd 2016 will be at three locations: Las Vegas (Sept. 19-23); Bangalore (Oct. 5-7); and Barcelona (Nov. 8-10). SAP Solution Manager topics will be covered mainly in the IT & Cloud Management track.
- The annual conference of the German-speaking user group (DSAG) will happen September 20-22 in Nürnberg, Germany
SAP Solution Manager Book
We have published a new book on SAP Solution Manager 7.2
- Please refer to SAP Press for more information.
- A German version of this book is planned to be available soon.
Expert Wikis
Best practices on how to use the various SAP Solution Manager processes are shared in SAP Solution Manager Expert Wikis
- Access the Expert WIKIS via SCN
SAP Support Portal
More information is available at the SAP Solution Manager homepage http://support.sap.com/solutionmanager
Technical Information
Technical Information regarding SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is available in the Product Availability Matrix and in SAP Note 2227300
Get ready for SAP Solution Manager 7.2!
That's great news!.
Out of interest, what is the SP is SR1 release? SP3? I'm trying to convince my organisation to recommend 7.2 over a fresh install of 7.1. There's a 10 week window to install before a freeze, and "the lesser risk" is thought to go with 7.1
#suitsvgeeks
Hi Phil,
7.1 is out of mainstream support EO 2017. That should be all the convincing you need to do, surely? 😆
Other than that, 7.2 offers a multitude of features that 7.1 doesn't have.
The risk factor may be less now, but by next year they will need to plan to upgrade to 7.2, which is riskier than installing a new 7.2 system (in my opinion of course).
Hi Andrew - those are great points and I made them myself. But then it came down to quantifying risk, which is not an exact science. If it is not installed (with all monitoring set up) in the next 10 weeks, then that risk has to balance against a costed upgrade option later next year.
Before I got into the ring, I wanted all my ducks in a row (I love mixing metaphors). Another duck is: is SP3 or SP4 available now, I couldn't tell (easily)?
SP3 is available now.
(We have has SAP Notes created for SP5 mind you), so SP4 will likely be December time.
Thanks for the news Cay.
As hilip stated that's great news.
Some of our customers were waiting for this.
Regards,
Yuksel AKCINAR
We're encountering problems installing SolMan 7.2... The problem occurs with SWPM 17 SP4 and SP5, unfortunately there is no prior version available for download.
The Problems point to Oracle problems, the error message is either
oracom.isMT is not a function
or
Could not find dialog diNtDbServerCommonUserJ2
depending on SWPM version.
There are other users with these problems, see http://scn.sap.com/thread/3954064