The ABAP Platform Strategy

[CarineTchoutouo]

ℹ This blog is updated regularly. [Last edit: 2023-12]

The ABAP Platform strategy highlights innovations that may help you plan and implement your digital journey and explains how these innovations may add value to your business.

ABAP Platform Roadmap Information

The ABAP Platform delivers its features as part of several SAP products. This document gives you an overview of important planned or upcoming feature milestones for the next releases for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) ABAP Environment, and SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. ABAP Cloud is delivered as part of these SAP solutions. The available ABAP Cloud scope depends on the respective SAP solution.

The feature set of the ABAP Cloud development model is enhanced quarterly for SAP BTP, ABAP environment, half-yearly for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and every two years for SAP S/4HANA starting with release 2023.

• 🔗 Access the ABAP Platform Roadmap Information 🔥


• 🔗 Access the ABAP Cloud Roadmap Information 🔥

SAP Road Map Explorer

SAP Road Maps support the journey to SAP's future product portfolio and the Intelligent Enterprise. Visit the SAP Road Map Explorer and explore the various interactive road maps, webinars, and transformation guides to learn more.

• 🔗Explore the interactive SAP BTP ABAP Environment road map

Release and Maintenance Strategy, and more... 

• ABAP Platform Releases and Consumers (blog post)


• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Maintenance Windows and Major Upgrade Windows in 2023 (blog post)


• SAP NetWeaver 7.5 Maintenance Strategy


• New SAP S/4HANA Release and Maintenance Strategy (📅 2022-09) | Presentation


• Neue Release- und Wartungsstrategie für SAP S/4HANA (📅 2022-09, DE)

SAP Help Portal – Release Notes

Find out the latest released innovations and features that you can turn into tangible value for your business.

• SAP BTP ABAP Environment Release Notes


• ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA Release Notes

Blog Posts

• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Release 2311 🔥


• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Release 2308


• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Release 2305


• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Release 2302

Replays

• Overview of ABAP Cloud sessions at SAP TechEd in 2023


• Replays of ABAP Cloud sessions at SAP's Devtoberfest 2023 - e.g.,
  
  
  
  • Overview of ABAP Cloud
  
  
  • ABAP Cloud for Classic ABAP Developers
  
  
  • Introduction to Embedded Analytics with ABAP Cloud
  
  
  • Business Events with ABAP Cloud-based Applications
  
  
  • Custom Code Adaptation for ABAP Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
  
  
  
  


• Replays of ABAP Platform sessions at SAP TechEd in 2022


• Replays of ABAP Platform sessions at SAP's Devtoberfest 2022


• Replays of ABAP Platform sessions at SAP TechEd in 2021


• Developer Discussions on ABAP in 2021 (playlist)

Further related links

• SAP Community (Sub-)Topic Pages
  
  
  
  • ABAP Development Community
  
  
  • SAP BTP ABAP Environment Community (aka Steampunk)
  
  
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment Community
  
  
  • State-of-the-Art ABAP Development with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
  
  
  
  


• Getting Started
  
  
  
  • Get Started with RAP
  
  
  • Get Started with ABAP for SAP HANA
  
  
  
  


• ABAP Platform Releases and Consumers


• ABAP Platform Landing Pages
  
  
  
  • 1809 | 1909 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 🔥
  
  
  
  


• ABAP sessions at SAP TechEd in...
  
  
  
  • 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
  
  
  
  


• Steampunk is going all-in!


• New SAP S/4HANA Release and Maintenance Strategy (📅 2022-09)


• Neue Release- und Wartungsstrategie für SAP S/4HANA (📅 2022-09, DE)


• ABAP Cloud (blog post)


• ABAP Cloud - SAP S/4HANA extensibility - May 2023 update (blog post)


• Check out the SAP BTP Developer’s Guide! 🔥

 

[joe_valliparampil2]

Hello Carine,

Thank You for the blog post. Is there a trial version of the ABAP Cloud Platform in the SCP?

 

_Joe.

[former_member185171]

Carine

we are developing several centrally used applications using FPM/FBI. We hardly find any information on these tools in the roadmaps of SAP.

Can you tell us what the furure of FPM and FPMFBI is, or has time come to leave these behind?

Thanks a lot.

Kris

[former_member613184]

Thank You for the blog post.

[CarineTchoutouo]

Hello Joe,

You’re welcome!

We’re currently working on providing the developer community a trial experience of the SAP CP ABAP Environment.

It will be announced in the SAP Community as soon as available.
https://www.sap.com/community/topics/cloud-platform-abap-environment.html

Kind regards,
Carine

[CarineTchoutouo]

Hello Kris,

The SAP UI technologies (incl. WDA and FPM) have dedicated rollout channels for quite some time now.

Please have a look at the SAP User Interface Technologies road map to find out information about the Floorplan Manager for WDA (FPM) and other UI technologies.

For that, go to https://www.sap.com/products/roadmaps/finder-all.html and search for SAP User Interface Technologies.

Kind regards,

Carine

[CarineTchoutouo]

Hello Rufina,

You're welcome!

Kind regards,
Carine

[matt]

Hi Carine

I have a question about slide 15.

Among the four columns, we have listed as recent innovations, or innovations to come, amongst others:

• Dynamic Programming: CREATE DATA, CREATE OBJECT, CALL METHOD, ASSIGN
• Conversion exit ALPHA for customer-defined domains
• Dynamic ABAP SQL
• Support for custom-developed ATC checks.

I’m wondering if I’m misunderstanding as these have been available for quite a few years, I think.

matt

[CarineTchoutouo]

Hi Matthew,

Yes, you’re right that these features are already available in the ABAP Platform - but only in on-premise releases, not on SAP Cloud Platform.

Slide 15 is about recent and planned ABAP Platform capabilities for the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment. This is the reason why they are mentioned there. And it's also important to mention that these features are provided in a cloud-enabled version.

I hope this answers your question.

Kind regards,
Carine

[matt]

OK, that makes more sense. Thanks.

[joe_valliparampil2]

Thanks.

[former_member182877]

Thank you for putting everything together for easy book-marking and reference.

 

Regards,

Kripa Rangachari

[StephanHeinberg]

Is there a new blog planned for ABAP Platform 2023?
Thanks, Stephan

[CarineTchoutouo]

Hi Stephan,

here we go 😊: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/27/abap-platform-for-sap-s-4hana-2023/

Kind regards,
Carine