--- title: "The Solution Manager Cliff: What SAP Teams Lose in 2027" description: SAP Solution Manager ends in 2027. Most SAP teams know the date. 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Most SAP teams know the date. Many may not understand the impact. On **31 December 2027**, mainstream maintenance for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 ends. For nearly two decades, SolMan has been the operational backbone of SAP landscapes — monitoring, governing, managing, tracking, and serving as an important toolkit for Basis and operations teams. When it goes, it’s not just “a tool” that disappears. It’s **dozens of daily operational capabilities** that many teams don’t realise they depend on. # What SolMan has been doing for you  Across most ECC and S/4 environments, Solution Manager typically covers: - - - Technical monitoring of ABAP, HANA, PI/PO, BW, Gateway, jobs, interfaces and performance - User experience monitoring via synthetic transactions - Business Process Monitoring (O2C, P2P, MRP, billing, manufacturing) - Root Cause Analysis across app, DB, OS and network layers - Change Request Management (ChaRM) for SAP transports and audit control - IT Service Management workflows for incidents, problems and changes - Test management and regression automation (CBTA, BPCA, TBOMs) - Job Scheduling Management for chains and dependencies - Custom code analysis for S/4 readiness and dead code detection - Landscape discovery via LMDB and SLD synchronisation - Maintenance planning for stack calculations and patch dependencies - Operational dashboards via Focused Insights Very few customers use *all* of this. Almost every customer relies heavily on *some* of it. And that’s where the risk lies. # A misconception: “Cloud ALM will replace SolMan” Cloud ALM is excellent for implementation governance and light operational visibility. It is **not** a replacement for: - - - ChaRM depth and transport governance - Advanced monitoring and alerting - Business process monitoring - Test automation - Job scheduling - Landscape intelligence - ITSM There is no single successor to Solution Manager. Cloud ALM has a way to go yet before its functionality can be used in the same way. There are options, though. # A modern tool stack to cover the gaps Unfortunately, there isn’t a single product that replaces SAP Solution Manager. Customers are moving to third-party solutions to build a modern tool stack, replacing each SolMan capability with a purpose-built tool for that role. - - - System Monitoring: Avantra, Approyo, Dynatrace, IT-Conductor - Business Process Management/Monitoring: UI-Path, AppDynamics, Stonebranch - ChaRM: Rev-Trac, ActiveControl, Transport Manager - ITSM: ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, BMC Remedy, Freshservice, Ivanti The same pattern continues across the rest of SolMan, with specialist tools replacing each functional area rather than a like-for-like swap. - - - Test management: Tricentis, Worksoft, MicroFocus UFT, Leapwork - Job Scheduling Management: Redwood, Control-M, Stonebranch, UI-Path - Custom code & S/4 readiness: Panaya, SmartShift, Onapsis - LMDB & landscape visibility : Avantra, ServiceNow CMDB, Device42, Xandria - Dashboards & KPIs: Power BI, Grafana, Splunk, Tableau # Final thought The question isn’t what replaces SolMan. The question is: which parts of SolMan your team relies on today, and how soon do you plan to replace them? The end of Solution Manager in 2027 isn’t just an SAP deadline. It’s an operational decision point for every SAP Basis and operations team. Those who wait until 2027 will be scrambling to replace critical capabilities under pressure. Those who plan now have a rare opportunity to modernise monitoring, change control, testing, and visibility with tools that are far more capable than SolMan ever was. [![Rick Porter](https://www.legupsoftware.com/hubfs/Rick_ANZSAP.jpg)](https://www.legupsoftware.com/expert_insights/author/rick-porter) #### Rick Porter With over two decades of working within the SAP ecosystem, Rick has met and worked with SAP IT professionals from broad backgrounds and experiences. Rick knows the stresses and strains experienced by those managing SAP systems and enjoys bringing these insights and reflections into conversations. 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