Can CoreALM replace SAP ChaRM for change management?

Yes. CoreALM enables you to manage SAP transport management directly from your enterprise platform without any dependency on SAP Solution Manager ChaRM. By embedding transport controls natively into ServiceNow, Jira, or Azure DevOps, you eliminate the need for fragmented, legacy change processes.

How can I manage SAP transports directly in ServiceNow with CoreALM?

Our solution embeds custom action buttons (for example, Create TR and Import TR) directly into your ServiceNow change workflow states. This allows authorized users to trigger SAP transport actions without ever leaving the ServiceNow interface.

Does the CoreALM Azure DevOps Integration support SAP transport management?

Yes. It enables SAP developers to create transport requests and attach them directly to Azure DevOps work items. This brings SAP development into the same agile flow as the rest of your enterprise.

Can I link Jira user stories to SAP transports using CoreALM?

Yes. The Jira Integration for SAP Transport Management allows developers to trigger transport creation and status updates directly from within a Jira issue, ensuring full traceability.

Does SAP Cloud ALM replace the need for CoreALM Transport Management?

Not entirely. While SAP Cloud ALM handles requirements and basic deployment orchestration, its current API set has limitations regarding deep transport management integration. It lacks advanced governance functions like sequencing, critical object checks, and automated retrofit. CoreALM covers those gaps with deeper integrations into Jira, Azure DevOps, and SAP transport layers.

How does CoreALM help enforce SAP Clean Core governance?

CoreALM enforces clean core principles by unifying the delivery of S/4HANA and SAP BTP extensions into a single governed process. By linking process design from SAP Signavio to delivery in Jira or Azure DevOps, teams ensure every customization is traceable, compliant, and aligned with business value.

Architecture Overview of SAP Solution Manager Focused Build

Simplifying SAP Focused Build

SAP Focused Build is a delivery platform built on top of SAP Solution Manager that offers an integrated SAP Application Lifecycle Management solution to build and manage SAP projects.

SAP Focused Build provides a single source of truth and is the hub for all management activities and all aspects of the SAP solution lifecycle and agile processes like Project Management, Process Management, Change/Sprint/Release Management and Test Management.

SAP Solution Manager fully supports SAP Activate and Agile methodologies. Several disciplines from SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and SAP Focused Build work together to support an agile planning and build.

Below you will find the SAP Focused Build Architecture Overview and Integration Model:

The Big Picture

The overview may look complicated but here’s the major parts of what makes up SAP Focused Build:

Release Management: To support deployments (sap transports), releases and cycles.
Process Management: The single source of truth for the documentation of the entire application lifecycle.
Requirements Management: To handle the requirements in the backlog.
Test-Suite: To use the test management functionalities for testing work packages, work items.
Project Management: To plan waves, sprints, milestones, and q-gates.
Dashboards: For tracking and reporting of the progress over the whole project.

Are you looking for how SAP Focused Build can help you? We understand the benefits of SAP Focused Build and as a Focused Solutions Circle Coach, we can help implement Agile best practices to help you create strategic solutions for managing your information, change and documentation throughout the complete end to end implementation of SAP S/4HANA. Reach out to us to learn how!