SAP Solution Manager ends in 2027. 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.
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.
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.
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
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.