How an Integrated Toolchain Helps Customers RISE Even Higher

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Having gained increasing momentum throughout 2024 and early 2025, RISE with SAP has already helped many businesses drive their much-needed transformations. Thanks to its standardized framework helping customers find new ways to unlock continuous innovation, as well as expert guidance provided throughout each individual RISE with SAP journey, experts from SAP and its large network of qualified partners have been on hand every step of the way to help customers clean their core and accelerate their transformations (quick teaser: we’ll be explaining a lot more about clean cores in a future blog post).

The new kid on the block – and perhaps the most valuable part of the whole RISE with SAP initiative where ALM is concerned – is what’s being referred to as the integrated toolchain, and it’s this element that we’ll be focusing on below.

Tools to Hang On Your Toolbelt

You can draw up the most perfectly penned plan, surround yourselves with the sharpest support, and assemble the best advice team in the world, but even doing all of that will only take you so far unless you have the right toolset to get the job across the line. While by no means set in stone, SAP has a clear recommendation when it comes to which tools will harmonize best and work well for you in unison with SAP Cloud ALM.

As shown in the graphic below, we start with SAP Signavio as your main driver for Business Process optimization. Right from the get-go of the Discovery phase, SAP Signavio works in tandem with SAP LeanIX to ensure that architecture design aligns with all of your business transformation goals. Throughout the entire journey, Tricentis Test Automation for SAP makes sure everything runs smoothly, providing you with sophisticated validation and test automation capabilities directly integrated into SAP Cloud ALM.

SAP Enable Now and WalkMe are on hand to guide and navigate your users, providing training, enablement and in-context assistance exactly when and where they need it most, while SAP Build and SAP Business Technology Platform provide the perfect foundation for agile application development and seamless integration.

And as a reliable and dependable constant throughout it all, SAP Cloud ALM plays a pivotal role as the digital backbone for your project execution, task management, project reporting and clean core success plan. By supporting project management and governance, it helps you meet your transformation milestones while maintaining system integrity, ultimately driving faster, high-quality, and more sustainable business outcomes. Even after “go-live”, it enables continuous monitoring, operational efficiency, as well as helping to identify potential for further improvements and innovations. Together, they all form a fully integrated toolchain that maximizes full value and efficiency for every single customer.

The powerful toolchain helps automate, enhance and accelerate the end-to-end business transformation journey

 

SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP – Why It Makes Sense

By transforming and transitioning companies into agile, highly efficient operations – crucial for succeeding in today's and tomorrow's world – RISE with SAP brings together exactly what customers need to transform their business in the way that works best for them, helping them stay on the cutting edge of innovation and consume SAP’s latest advancements faster. It is here where SAP Cloud ALM, a key part of the integrated toolchain and a crucial cog in the RISE with SAP wheelhouse, can help customers reduce three major factors: time to value, business disruptions, and cost of ownership.

1. REDUCE TIME TO VALUE

• Immediate system availability + easy project onboarding: Speed up go-live milestones!
• Best Practices + agile project management: Break up projects to improve flexibility and efficiency.
• Built-in transparency: Improve decision-making, reach ROI earlier to gain competitive advantage.

1. REDUCE DISRUPTIONS

• Integrated test management: Safeguard business by improving solution quality.
• Continuous monitoring and alerting: Detect disruptions early and avoid problems pro-actively.
• Root cause analyses: Quickly resolve any problems should they still occur.

1. REDUCE COST OF OWNERSHIP

• No additional license, additional hardware or additional infrastructure: Increase budget savings.
• No maintenance and technical operation: All taken care of by SAP.
• No more 3rd-party licenses needed. At all.

The main benefits customers can achieve by using SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP

You can find out more about the benefits of using RISE with SAP, the integrated toolchain, and SAP Cloud ALM at the SAP ALM Summit EMEA 2025 in Darmstadt, Germany (Oct 21-23). Sign up today to join us and other top industry experts for countless inspiring sessions and networking opportunities! Feel free to share this within your community network and get involved. Thanks as always for reading!