Release Navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform by SAP Enterprise Support

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Find Release Content Quickly and Easily

With more than 90 services and products in the SAP Discovery Center as of today, SAP Business Technology Platform offers innovative solutions for every scenario imaginable. Staying up to date on all the ones you are using, and their upcoming new features can be a time-consuming challenge. The more services you use, the more content you need to keep track of: Blog posts, newsletters, videos, podcasts, webcasts, social media channels, webpages… there’s a long list of excellent and helpful content out there to inform you about recently added features but gathering them for each release can take some time.

To make finding these resources more efficient and convenient, the Readiness@Scale team has launched the Release Navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform.

Check it out now.

 

Your SAP BTP Release One-Stop-Shop

The release navigator consolidates essential release content from SAP Product Management, SAP User Assistance, SAP Learning, SAP Enterprise Support, and other areas of the SAP ecosystem – accessing release content has never been easier!

On the Home Page you can find curated essential Release Resources across all of SAP BTP, important Release Dates as well as General Resources that can help you stay up-to-date and get the most out of your SAP BTP products and services.

At the top of the Home Page you can also find resources to help you get the most of the release navigator:

1. A Guided Tour, created with native SAP Enable Now, which will instruct you how to use the release navigator. - Coming with the next update in Q4 2023


2. This SAP Community Blog Post for reference.


3. A Feedback Survey where you can request new topics to be added or provide feedback regarding the usability of the release navigator. This survey is an excellent opportunity for you to tell us how the navigator has worked for you and how we can make your release experience better.

Home Page: General Release Resources for SAP BTP

Curated Product Resources

Besides these high-level resources, we have gathered Product Resources that help you stay on top of new feature releases organized by SAP BTP Product Pillars.

Home Page: Navigating to Product Resources

At launch, these products and services will be covered in detail*:

Application Development & Automation

• SAP BTP, ABAP Environment


• SAP Business Application Studio


• SAP Build
  
  
  
  • SAP Build Apps
  
  
  • SAP Build Process Automation
  
  
  • SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition
  
  
  • SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition
  
  
  
  

Data and Analytics

• SAP Analytics Cloud


• SAP Datasphere


• SAP HANA Cloud


• SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition

Integration

• SAP Integration Suite


• SAP Data Intelligence Cloud

Artificial Intelligence

• SAP AI Business Services


• SAP AI Core


• SAP AI Launchpad

*More products and services will be added in upcoming quarters. If you are missing information on a specific product, please refer to the high-level SAP BTP resources, you will most likely find information in the SAP Roadmap Explorer and SAP BTP What’s New Viewer. Please also make use of our Feedback Survey to let us know what information you are missing! You can find the Feedback Survey at the top of the Home Page.

Release Guidance and Regular Updates

Each Product Page includes curated and selected resources that help you navigate feature releases.

The Release Guidance box provides additional context so you can decide which resource is the right one for your specific situation.

Exemplary Product Page for SAP Datasphere

 

The release navigator will be updated quarterly in alignment with the Harmonized Release Calendar for SAP Cloud Products.

Simple Design and Navigation

Staying true to our innovative user experience, we have designed the release navigator with the familiar SAP Fiori Morning Horizon theme for ease of use.

Product Pages each come with release guidance information and the tiles in the navigator have helpful tooltips and in some cases info-buttons to provide additional helpful information.

Info-Buttons for more information

Access the Release Navigator

The release navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform is accessible through the Release Ready page in the SAP Support Portal.

Click here or on the image below to access the Release Navigator via the SAP Support Portal.

Accessing the Release Navigator for SAP BTP via the SAP Support Portal

 

Besides this page, the release navigator for SAP BTP can also be accessed via the SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps, the SAP BTP Onboarding Resource Center and SAP Activate Roadmaps. More additional access options will follow in the future.

 

Stay Connected

Follow the SAP Business Technology Platform tag in SAP Community and subscribe to the SAP BTP Newsletter for all SAP BTP news.

Find all our teams blogs with the tag Readiness@Scale and feel free to connect on LinkedIn.

[Wallace]

Hello,

I read this: The release navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform will be accessible through the SAP Enterprise Support value map for SAP Business Technology Platform.

With this being SEN driven, perhaps SAP Companion, will it also be accessible from a ? or something on Discovery Center?

Thanks in advance, and thanks for this blog.  Am following, will watch, try it once released...

Best Regards, Wallace

[chriskollhed]

Hi Wallace,

thanks for your question and interest in the release navigator! At launch, the main access point will be the SAP Enterprise Support value map for SAP BTP. We are exploring additional access points in the future. Stay tuned!

Best regards,

Chris

[Cocquerel]

Is it normal that I get "Access denied" when trying to access "SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps"?

[bvb1909]

Hello Michael,

it is accessible starting September, 19th.

best regards
Frank

[chriskollhed]

Hi Michael, thanks for your question.

Have you already tried to follow the steps on this page https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/enterprise-support/enterprise-support-academy/learn.ht... in order to sign-up for the SAP Learning Hub, edition for SAP Enterprise Support?

If so, where in the process of registration did you receive an error?

Best regards!

[chriskollhed]

Hi Frank,

thanks for your comment. Correct, the Release Navigator will be available starting Sep 19. However, the SAP Enterprise Support Value Map for BTP is already available to all customers.

Best regards!

[Cocquerel]

Hello, Christopher, I have no issue to sign-up and connect to SAP Learning Hub but I'm getting "Access denied" error when trying to access SAP Enterprise Support Value Map.
I'm facing the issue with the direct link you provided but it is also the same issue if I search for SAP Enterprise Support Value Map in the Learning Hub and then click on the first result like shown in screenshot.

[fplanckart]

Hi Michael,

Could you please click on "Access Value Maps" button from this page https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/enterprise-support/enterprise-support-academy/value-ma... ? Please, you need first to log in to SAP Learning Hub before accessing SAP Enterprise Support Value Map.

Best regards,

François

[Cocquerel]

Thanks François, your link is working fine

[chriskollhed]

Hi Francois,

thanks for your support, I replaced the link in the blog post as well to avoid this issue in the future.

Best regards!

[Cocquerel]

Note that now that I have joined the group SAP Enterprise Support Value Map via the link provided by François, the direct link initialy provided by Christofer is also working fine.

[chriskollhed]

Hi Michael,

glad to hear you can now access the SAP Enterprise Support Value Map! Thanks for your patience and for keeping us updated on your progress so others can benefit from your experience.

Best regards

[chriskollhed]

Hello everyone,

we are happy to announce that we have launched the release navigator today!

The access instructions in this blog post have been updated and now include a screenshot of where in the SAP Enterprise Support Value Map for SAP BTP you can find the release navigator.

Happy navigating!

[marc-oliver_kuhse2]

Hi Christopher,

i have no access with my S-User. Is it not open to every customer?

Regards

Marc

[chriskollhed]

Hi Marc,

it is open to all customers and with an S-user, you should be able to access it.

Have you checked the instructions on this page?

If the instructions there do not help, please reach out to sapesvaluemaps@sap.com.

Hope it works out soon!

Best regards

[marc-oliver_kuhse2]

Thank you, it works now. Hard to get there, but it works 🙂

[chriskollhed]

Glad to hear that, thanks for your feedback!

[chriskollhed]

Hello everyone,

The release navigator is more easily accessible now via a dedicated page in the SAP Support Portal. Check it out.

Instructions on how to access the release navigator have been updated in this blog post.

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Happy navigating!

[anypre]

I tried to access Release Navigator for SAP BTP | Home Page (cloud.sap).. I don't know if it is my computer, network or the page itself, but it takes more than 10 seconds to load?  Is it normal?

[chriskollhed]

Hi Sindy,

thanks for your message. Loading the page can take a few seconds, but it should not take more than 10 seconds. It might be due to your network or computer. What browser are you using?

Best, Chris

[anypre]

Chrome is our default browser.

[chriskollhed]

Thank you for your feedback, we will look into it. Please also check if you may have any connection issues.

[chriskollhed]

The Q1 2024 Update is now completed and live. Check out the updated resources, consolidated release schedules and new design. Please note that screenshots and some information in this blog post might be outdated.

Check it out now.