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Introduction

SAP Focused Run is the ultimate solution for high volume monitoring, alerting, diagnostics, and analytics. It is a powerful tool for Operations of hybrid SAP solution landscapes (see blog post SAP Focused Run – Introduction for a complete overview). This blog post explains the release strategy of SAP Focused Run and provides an update of the new functionalities with Release 3.0 FP02.

Check out the recorded session SAP Focused Run - News with Release 3.0 FP02

Release Strategy

To begin with General Release Strategy information, SAP designs its release and maintenance strategy to (see https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance.html😞

  • Support the planning of SAP® software implementations and upgrades

  • Provide insight into strategy for software products and cloud offerings

  • Describe how we make our standard software and cloud services available

  • Show which maintenance strategy rules apply to which software products

  • Describe the length and conditions of maintenance for SAP software releases

  • Explain how various software product versions integrate with each other


SAP Focused Run has a three-year release cycle and delivers two Feature Packs per year (2021 FP01 released Q2 2021 and FP02 right on schedule in December Q4 2021).


SAP Focused Run - Release Strategy


 

FRUN 3.0 FP02

SAP Focused Run 3.0 FP02 has been released on December 13th 2021 and provides many new features in different use cases such as:

  • Advanced Integration Monitoring

  • Advanced User Monitoring

  • Advanced Application Management

  • Advanced System Management

  • Advanced Event and Alert Management

  • Advanced Root Cause Analysis

  • Operation Automation

  • Advanced Analytics & Intelligence

  • Advanced Analytics

  • Infrastructure Administration



SAP Focused Run - Roadmap


 

Detailed descriptions for each new functionality is documented in the delta presentation ‘Delta 3.0 FP01 – 3.0 FP02’ on the SAP Focused Run product webpage. There is also a link on the landing page to the recording from the product team demoing the newest innovation. For those who want to try it on their own, there is an internet demo system available for demo purposes.

The SAP Focused Run Roadmap provides detailed information of the previous, current, and upcoming releases.

 

Available Content 

The newly updated SAP Focused Run Overview Presentation includes a Content Roadmap slide that shows all the current available content with FP02. This can always be looked up in detail on the SAP Focused Run Expert Portal which provides information around content, setup, supported products, release notes, etc. for each use case of SAP Focused Run.


SAP Focused Run - Content Roadmap


 

Conclusion

SAP Focused Run is a powerful and innovative operations solutions for hybrid landscapes. Continuous delivery of new innovation based on customer feedback with a three-year release cycle with a delivery of two units per year.

What are YOUR operations/monitoring challenges? Share your comments or leave feedback in the comment section. If you have any questions, post them in the Q&A: https://answers.sap.com/tags/73555000100800000451

Interested to read more about this topic and learn about the use cases in SAP Focused Run? Follow #SAP Focused Run - there will be more article soon.

Stay up to date with all ALM Products, like SAP Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Solutions at: https://community.sap.com/topics/application-lifecycle-management
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