ALM Advent Calendar 2020

The 2020 ALM Advent calendar, inspired by the centuries-old German holiday tradition (see background below), is a collection of application lifecycle management goodies in the form of new videos, interactive Web sessions, and tailored informational material concerning your ALM solution. We invite you to count down the weekdays of December with us. Explore our range of ALM topics covered: SAP Solution Manager, SAP Focused Run, and SAP Cloud ALM. Opening a little door to the right ALM resource can help you deliver your business a gift-wrapped competitive edge for 2021 and beyond. Thanks for sharing the 2020 holiday season with us!

Your Weekday-Only ALM Advent Calendar

Happy holidays and happy new year!

Are Focused Build upgrades on your wish list?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 23rd door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 23 topic: Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager

It’s not magic. It’s not a Christmas miracle. See for yourself how we engineer this ALM solution.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 22nd door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 22 topic: SAP Cloud ALM

Even the Grinch of COVID-19 couldn’t stop this event from coming.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 21st door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 21 topic: SAP ALM Summit EMEA 2020

Ring the bells! SAP Focused Run 3.0 has been released!

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 18th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 18 topic: SAP Focused Run

[sing along] Maybe it’s true the launch party was in May / But, why not ask about cloud and hybrid anyway? / What’s new with the SAP cloud solution? SAP Cloud ALM?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 17th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 17 topic: SAP Cloud ALM

Consider it like a digital present under the ALM license tree.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 16th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 16 topic: Tricentis Test Automation

Christmas is better when shared with family and friends, even virtually! Don’t miss this holiday special session happening tomorrow, December 16th!

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 15th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 15 topic: ALM Community Call

Anyone well familiar with the tradition of the decorated Christmas tree will see how the topic of this video is similarly a fundamental part of ALM.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 14th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 14 topic: SAP Cloud ALM

Have you completed your holiday to-do list already?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 11th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 11 topic: To-Do list for ALM

Don’t you just love holiday movies?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 10th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 10 topic: SAP Focused Run

December invites us to reflect on all that was new in 2020.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 9th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 9 topic: Focused Insights

You don’t have to wait until Christmas to start playing with this free offering!

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 8th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 8 topic: SAP Cloud ALM

Even a workshop as remote as the north pole can connect with ALM subject matter experts online.

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 7th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 7 topic: ALM for SaaS

What’s better than shaking a wrapped present to guess what’s inside?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 4th door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 4 topic: SAP Solution Manager

’Tis the season for SAP TechEd!

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 3rd door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 3 topic: SAP TechEd

Give your business the gift of hybrid solutions!

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 2nd door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 2 topic: Hybrid solutions

[sing along] Said the cloud solution to the customer / Do you see what I see?

Watch the video teaser to peek behind the December 1st door. Jump to the topic via the link below the video.

Link to Dec 1 topic: SAP Cloud ALM

Background: The German Advent Calendar

Germany’s Advent calendar continues to grow in popularity wherever in the world you might find children counting down the days to Christmas. Indeed, Christmas is not only a national holiday in Germany, but also a season. Christmas time begins slowly, creeping in from mid-autumn, with the occasional spotting of decorative stars and snowflakes hanging in retail store windows. By December, shopping districts of cities and towns are fully-decorated with shiny ornamented Christmas trees, colorful presents, Santa Claus images, and fully-glowing from LED light strings wrapping around the storefronts and lampposts.

It can positively infect one with a lingering case of the Christmas spirit that keeps a smile on your face. (Apparently even when paying bills with your phone.) Who can blame children at home for frequently singing classic Christmas songs, or frequently discussing and revising their gift wish lists? Today, as had been the case for over 100 years ago, children enthusiastically count the days in December until Christmas Day on the 25th.

The Advent calendar has a design to cheer on the countdown. The first Advent calendar is attributed to German protestants in the 19th century, as a way for religious families to mark this period of Advent. The calendar grew in sophistication and design over the decades. Currently, a common form looks something like a box of mixed chocolates. The calendar package typically has one side showing several tiny doors or windows that are numbered to represent the first 24 days of December. One opens one compartment per day and receives the candy, small toy, or other surprise packed inside the space.

The ALM Advent calendar (especially via this blog) can’t quite provide something like holiday chocolates, but rather small nuggets of ALM future-planning information, with which we wish you and your business happy holidays and a successful new year!