SAP Solution Manager 7.2 & Focused Solutions Demo System with SAP S/4HANA on CAL

SAP Solution Manager Product Management is pleased to announce that SAP Solution Manager 7.2 & Focused Solutions Demo System is available to SAP customers and partners via the Cloud Appliance Library (CAL).

This free-trial appliance runs on Linux/SAP ASE, and it includes the following components:

• SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP3 (Dual Stack ABAP and JAVA) on SAP HANA 1.0.
• ST-OST 7.2 SP0 Focused Solutions add-on.
• Managed system on SAP S/4 HANA 1511 FP01.

This appliance is a fully pre-configured system that can be immediately used to test-drive SAP Solution Manager 7.2 & Focused Solutions in the cloud.

The purpose of this system is to allow SAP customers and SAP partners to evaluate and start SAP Solution Manager 7.2 projects in the following areas:

• Portfolio to Project (P2P) to drive the portfolio of projects and balance business initiatives and their business value against IT capacity, skills and timelines.
• Requirement to Deploy (R2D) to build what the business needs
• Request to Fulfill (R2F) to catalog, request and fulfill services.
• Detect to Correct (D2C) to anticipate and resolve production problems.

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is the most complete life-cycle management solution for SAP and non-SAP software.

It allows you to continuously protect your investments, leverage innovation, and achieve value from your SAP solutions.

Some of the new key capabilities of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 include:

• Improved user experience
• Powerful implementation capabilities
• Agile implementation
• Hybrid support
• Support for SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA.
• Web based solution documentation
• Solution Manager Launchpad, based on SAP Fiori
• Ready-made deployment best practices
• Integrated Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) graphical modeling
• New project and release management capabilities

Focused Solutions are turnkey solutions based on SAP Solution Manager – made for immediate consumption.  They are ready-to-run, highly integrated, pre-configured, and automated. Focused Solutions deliver all you need and include additional features and dashboards, and all related training.

Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager is an integrated, tool-supported methodology to manage requirements and software development in large, agile innovation projects such as SAP S/4HANA implementations.

With Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager you can build and distribute powerful customer-specific dashboards in minutes using state-of-the-art user experience.

The system is a fully pre-configured system that can be immediately used as no more configuration required.

For more information on SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and Focused Solutions, see the material located on the SAP Support Portal

• SAP Solution Manager Homepage
• SAP Solution Manager Wiki
• SAP Solution Manager Support Portal
• Focused Solutions
• https://support.sap.com/ekt-solutionmanager

Support for this free trial system will take place via the SAP CAL SCN community in the same manner as other free trials: http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud-appliance-library

Thank you!

Xavier Dupeyrat
Product owner / Development manager for SAP Solution Manager