It is licensed separately
In SAP’s own words, Focused Run “needs to be licensed separately,” while Solution Manager and Cloud ALM are covered by maintenance. The thing that was bundled becomes a line item.
Solution Manager EOL
Solution Manager is retiring. SAP wants you in the cloud. What if you can’t go?
Mainstream maintenance for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 ends 31 December 2027. SAP’s recommended successor, Cloud ALM, is SaaS-only — there is no on-premise version. For teams whose SAP data can’t leave the network, that’s not an upgrade. It’s a gap. LynxOps fills it, on your servers.
What moves, what breaks
Where each option leaves you
| SolMan 7.2 | Cloud ALM | LynxOps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | On-prem | SaaS only | On-prem / air-gap |
| Technical monitoring | Yes | Cloud-centric | 12 SAP tx over RFC |
| Maintained past 2027 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Data stays on-network | Yes | No | Yes |
Sources: SAP — Solution Manager 7.2 maintenance · SAP — ALM FAQ
“We have until 2030”
Read the fine print
Business Suite 7 extended maintenance runs to 2030 and does include Solution Manager 7.2. But SAP’s own scope is explicit — it covers requirements management, project management, process management, test suite, change control management, IT service management and landscape management.
Application Operations — technical monitoring — is not on that list.
So even with extended maintenance, everything outside that scope drops to customer-specific maintenance in 2028: no new corrections, no support packages, no legal changes, no new platform support. Your monitoring doesn’t stop working. It freezes.
And SAP does have an answer
SAP Focused Run — the option nobody mentions first
Focused Run is on-premise, monitoring-specific, and stays in mainstream maintenance past 2027. If your only requirement were “keep monitoring on-prem,” it would be a real answer — and you should weigh it honestly.
It is a heavy install
A dedicated system with its own HANA and SAP_BASIS stack — a project, not a switch you flip.
It is still SAP-only
It monitors your SAP estate. LynxOps correlates SAP with the databases and OS underneath, and adds optional, redacted AI root-cause on top.
So the real question in 2028 isn’t whether your monitoring survives. It’s whether it freezes, or whether it starts sending you an invoice for something that used to be free.
Your 90-day path off SolMan monitoring
Cut over on your schedule, not SAP’s
Week 1–2
Deploy
LynxOps agents run next to your systems. No SAP GUI, no core modifications.
Week 3–6
Mirror
Reproduce your SolMan monitors and validate them side by side, in your own landscape.
Week 7–12
Cut over
Move alerting and reporting across. Decommission SolMan monitoring when you’re ready — not when a deadline forces it.