Planning Landscape Changes (Best Practice Guide)

This best practice guide describes the steps to find new functions for SAP software and to plan their implementation in an existing IT landscape.
It gives an overview on the tools that are involved: SAP Solution Manager, innovation discovery, maintenance planner or maintenance optimizer, PAM, scope and effort analyzer, update dependency analyzer, SUM...

Select a guide version, depending on the software you use:

SAP Solution Manager 7.1

SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Planning Landscape Changes (PDF)
Process with Maintenance Planner for
SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS 5 and Higher

Note: The following guide versions are invalidated by the

Maintenance Optimizer sunset:

Planning Landscape Changes (PDF) (invalidated)
for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 and Maintenance Optimizer
Maintenance Planning Guide (PDF) (invalidated)
for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP05 and Higher
Special Cases in Installation and Update (PDF) (invalidated)

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Planning Landscape Changes (PDF)

Best Practices incl. information from the Maintenance Planning Guide
SAP Solution Manager

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