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.

Agile Project Management with SAP Solution Manager and Focused Build

What is Agile? According to Google, Agile is a methodology that is an approach to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and the end user. Ultimately it advocated for adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery and continual improvement for different companies. The ultimate thing that Agile methodology encourages is rapid and flexible responses to change, which is beneficial to any company who wants to stay on top of their game.

So, why is this important? The SAP Solution Manager platform should be everyone’s first choice for agility, flexibility and DevOps within your SAP environment. Moreover, SAP Solution Manager 7.2’s Focused Build implements the Agile methodology seamlessly. SAP Focused Build is an add on top of your SAP Solution Manager. This is important to understand because it shows you how it’ll integrate between all of the capabilities within your current Solution Manager and will ease your process into your S/4 Migration.

Below is an example of the Agile methodology utilizing SAP Solution Manager as well as the functionality within SAP Focused Build.

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery for SAP projects
Source: SAP

The Agile methodology also encompasses a transparency within Focused Build that has been unseen before when using the DevOps approach. The below image shows you how this is possible.

SAP Agile Best Practices
Source: SAP

At the end of the day your SAP projects can be agile and flexible and SAP Focused Build can give you the tools and power to create such an environment in your SAP projects moving forward. Set up a meeting and ask us how we can implement this Agile Methodology within your company.