What is the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool
Release Assessment and Scope Dependency for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: What is new in 2024
What does Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool do?
How to access the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool?
How to effectively use the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool??
Other features
What is the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition?
The release assessment and scope dependency is a simple, self-learning tool for the customers of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This tool enables the ease of consumption and adoption of impacts, improvements, and innovations which are rolled out with each release and upgrade.
It presents to the customers, a tailor-made list of deleted, deprecated, new and changed objects like apps, APIs CDS views, Scope Items etc. for each SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition release and continuous delivery. This list is filtered based on the customer’ s used and activated scope which means that the customers only see the changes relevant to them and not the entire list.
Customers get a time window of approximately three weeks between Release to Customer(RTC) and release. Release assessment and scope dependency helps the customers to narrow down to the changes which need immediate attention and perform regression tests which are crucial during the short window of upgrades.
In addition to the impacts, release assessment and scope dependency also shows the customers all the new and improved features (based on their scope) which will add value for their business.
The tool is available in English, German, Chinese, Japanese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. The language displayed depends on your browser language.
What does Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool do?
It is an add-on tool for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Customers, which provides a personalized view of SAP's What's New Viewer
Every half-yearly release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public edition, brings in many improvements and innovations. Since the number of features is often large, it might be challenging for the customers to consume them. Release assessment and scope dependency serves as a ready reckoner for customer’s release preparation by providing a personalized list of features. Hence, it aims to make a customer’s upgrade experience smooth and seamless.
You can use this tool to
- Know the deletions and deprecations (for an upcoming release or upgrade) impacting the Apps, Extensibility Objects(APIs and CDS views are included here), Business Catalogs and other objects that you have been using (for the upcoming release and upgrades)
- Know about the modification aimed to improve the Apps, Extensibility Objects etc. that you have been using.
- The custom CDS views and Apps which have been impacted due and release or upgrade (Where-used List)
and much more.
How to access the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool?
There are three ways to access this tool.
- Access the URL www.sap.com/rasd and login with a customer linked S-user ID
- Release assessment and scope dependency is also available on SAP for Me (Portfolio & Products-> SAP S/4HANA Cloud -> Additional Information -> Selected Content)
- The URL is also available on the help portal of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Scroll down to the section “What’s New” to see the details.
How to effectively use the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency?
We recommend that you analyze every tab in the tool so that you do not miss out on important updates.
The landing page has four filters. Set the relevant filters to see the desired release data. The home page is divided into four tabs. Here are the details of each tab.
- Used Objects : This page shows the data about the used Apps, Extensibility Objects and Business Catalogs. If the logged-in customer has accessed any of these objects in last few months, it is counted as usage . The release assessment and scope dependency tool shows only those entries from the What's New Viewer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition which are related to this usage. This page contains the following cards.
- Extensibility Objects: With the release of 2402.1 version of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, all changes related to extensibility objects have been moved to the page Overview of Extensibility Objects. This now includes objects covering both Key User Extensibility and Developer Extensibility. The list of all extensibility objects covered are available here
- Apps
- Where used list for Deletion and Deprecation: Shows custom CDS views and apps impacted by deleted business catalogs and CDS views.
- Deleted/Deprecated Business Catalogs and Renamed App Tiles
- Used Scope items: This page shows data filtered by the scope usage of the logged in customer. Scope usage refers to the solution processes used by the customers (example: BD9, J60 etc.). This page contains the following cards.
- Scope item Impact: Shows scope items in descending order of impact (i.e. the scope items which the greatest number of modifications will be on top)
- Personalized What's New Viewer: You'll find the SAP S/4HANA Cloud What's New Viewer filtered by the usage of solution processes by the logged-in customer.
- New Features
- Line of Business
- Activated Scope items: This page shows data filtered by the scope which has been activated by the logged-in customer. In other words, the solution processes which have been activated by the customer but not used in last few months. The cards on this page are same as the "Used Scope items" and the following additional card
- Localization Updates: This card list out all the entries from the What's New Viewer(for the selected release) which is linked to the localization/region of the logged-in customer
- Complete What's New Information: This page shows the various views derived from the What's New Viewer . This page is not filtered by usage and presents the entire What's New Viewer information for the selected release. The page has similar cards as the "Used Scope items" and "Activated Scope items" and the following additional card
- Extensibility Objects: All changes related to extensibility objects in a specific release are available under the tab ‘Complete What’s New Information’. This is not filtered based on a customer’s usage, but rather, it provides an overall view on all changes based on a specific release. Usage of extensibility objects such as Business Events cannot be measured. The release information regarding these objects will also be covered here.
- UI/UX Updates: This card shows those entries from the What's New Viewer for the selected release which are related to the Solution Capability "Fiori UX Technology"
- Successor Companion: As of initial release, this will be available only for the major releases, but we will be extending this for continuous deliveries as well, in the upcoming versions of the tool.
Successor companion consists of two tiles.
- Scope Item Impact: Scope item impact provides you with a bird’s eye view on a customer’s scope item implementation statistics on their SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition landscape across all tenants based on their usage.
- Deprecation Coverage: With ‘Deprecation Coverage’, we want to give you a proactive view on what are the deprecated (API Deprecation Policy, CDS view Deprecation policy) objects and attributes that are currently being used by a customer and we also provide the name of the successors which are released for these deprecated objects/attributes, so that the customer can move to these successors by the time these deprecated objects/attributes are deleted.
Other features
- Release: Shows important release and upgrade related dates.
- Filter for Content Version (Relevant for 3SL customers): A filter labelled "Content Upgrade Relevant" is provided on the detailed section of each card. This filter can be used to drill-down to the features which are dependent on the latest content version. this is not available by default.
- To use this filter, click on any of the cards, once you are on the next page, click on "Filters."
- In the window that pops up, select the option "Content Upgrade Relevant."
- You can now see an additional column for "Content Upgrade Relevant".
- The “Download” feature: Some of the cards on the homepage has a “Download” button. Using this feature, you can download a comprehensive list of deletions, deprecations, changes (depending on the button that you choose) into a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet can be uploaded to your SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public edition system if you wish to see the list in your home page. Read the blog for the step-by-step process.
- SAP Cloud ALM compatible spreadsheet: You can now download a spreadsheet from the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool, which can be uploaded to the “Tasks” app in your SAP Cloud ALM tenant. For details, please refer to the blog
***Clicking on “Download List” under the tile “Deleted/Deprecated Business Catalogs & Renamed App Titles” results in two spreadsheets, one for deleted/deprecated business catalogs and one for the renamed applications.
If you have any questions about the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool, please write to support_rasd@sap.com
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