Trusted observability and hybrid automation for SAP OPS
Missing your LaMa?
As SAP’s roadmap evolves toward Cloud ALM and Cloud Application Services, the SAP Landscape Management solution’s support window closes at the end of 2027, affecting these capabilities:
- System Provisioning & Cloning
- System Refresh Automation, Post-Copy Automation (PCA)
- Managed System Operations & Orchestration (Start/Stop/Check)
- Landscape Visualization & Inventory
- Custom Automation / Process Management
- Infrastructure Integration (Cloud & Virtualization)
Extending Coverage as SAP's Landscape Tools Evolve
LaMa has been a staple of SAP operations and deployments for a generation. Looking to the future, Cloud ALM and Cloud Application Services (CAS) options directly address the needs of SAP customers moving to Cloud ERP.
As SAP’s roadmap moves toward Cloud ALM and Cloud Application Services (CAS), support for the Landscape Management solution ends in 2027. Customers planning their transition timeline can start scoping their path forward now.
For SAP customers with existing on-premises systems, plans for extended hybrid operations or complex transition and transformation projects, an automation layer that spans the full landscape makes these operations dramatically easier to manage.
Extending Cloud ALM
For SAP customers planning a Cloud ERP centric future, Cloud ALM is often the first and best choice.
More complex deployments may require extensions and integration with Cloud ALM:
- Managing legacy on-premises systems until decommissioning
- Long-term plans for hybrid operations
- Customers adopting Cloud ERP Private without Cloud Application Services (CAS) options
- Heavily regulated industries such as GxP and Defense
- Multi-tenant management
System Refresh Automation
One-click, fully automated system refresh.
Avantra customers easily support Project and QA teams with fresh test data and ready to use non-production systems.
Automate support across migration, upgrade, HA/DR, testing and training systems. Support on-demand system refresh: no matter how complex, Avantra automates the job.
Massively reduce the time and Basis team commitment for this common activity.
Systems Orchestration
Backups, provisioning, start and stop – SAP landscapes require systems orchestration to make sure it’s done right.
Let Avantra automation turn this repetitive task into an automated, consistent runbook execution, eliminating manual effort each time it’s run.
ITSM Integration
Orchestrate everything across the enterprise from ServiceNow including SAP.
Trigger Landscape Management automation from ServiceNow and keep tickets up to date automatically for system actions, upgrades, patches and service requests.
Learn more about ServiceNow Integration with Avantra
SAP Landscape Management and Automation for Security
Avantra automates many regular security and compliance activities, managing SAP landscapes with less Basis team effort across on-premises, hyperscaler and Cloud ERP deployments
| Certificate Management | Prevent unexpected downtime from expired security certificates. Automatically monitor certificates in SAP systems for expiration and required updates across ECC, S/4HANA, Cloud ERP, BTP, CPI, Cloud Connector and most web endpoints. No manual effort, and no expired certificate surprises. |
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| HotNews and SAP Notes |
Never miss a security patch or critical update. Automatically monitor SAP notifications and determine applicability for managed systems. Eliminate manual triage, automate downloads, team notifications and reduce the time-to-patch for vulnerabilities.
Many HotNews notifications are fully automated, eliminating the need for manual Basis team involvement and automatically remediating impacted systems with full change control audit trail. |
| Kernel Upgrades | Automated kernel upgrades keep systems patched and secure with the most up-to-date code. Automatically identify target systems and fully automate kernel patching, reducing manual Basis team activities and accelerating update delivery. Full rollback capabilities built in. Audit and compliance reporting included. |
| OS & Infrastructure | Keep Linux systems up to date and secure with automatic Operating System level patching – no additional tooling required. Automatically orchestrates updates in production systems including landscape stop/start orchestration, fully aware of SAP workloads and landscape dependencies. Full audit trail for compliance reporting. |
| Logs and Systems Events | Detect security events with proactive log monitoring. Monitor SAP system logs, specific SAP Jobs, and specific SAP transactions. CCMS integration provides correlation with external credential monitoring sources. |
| Configuration Drift | Detect changes in system configuration automatically. Automate the monitoring and detection of configuration changes or across thousands of systems and SAP parameters easily, each with proactive alerting. Early identification of configuration changes prevents security issues and non-compliant audit findings. |
| Profile Parameter Monitoring | Prevent profile drift and detect changes before adverse audit findings or security events happen. Automate the detection of policy change for logging, passwords, login rules and more. Policy checks run continuously, identifying unexpected changes with full reporting. |
| Authorization / User Lifecycle |
Automate authorization checking and policy compliance for users. Eliminate accidental and unchecked access outside of standard policy by automatically detecting policy violations. Continuous monitoring and reporting identifies issues quickly, without tedious manual analysis. Track all users against business policy and automate reporting on users with elevated authority and critical authorizations.
Identify orphaned accounts, automate provisioning and de-provisioning, and manage exceptions with centralized ITSM solutions including ServiceNow. Automation eliminates the daily tedious tasks of ordinary user management. |
| BTP and Cloud ERP Specific | Monitor for configuration changes and activity across security groups, certificates, critical authorizations and account connections. Maintain visibility and reporting on consumption of cloud resources and cloud spend targets. |
Multi-Tenant Coverage
For the most complex large enterprise customers and SAP Managed Services Providers, managing multiple customer tenants and landscapes is a must.
Provide end users with tenant-specific views and centralize control across multiple Cloud ALM tenants from a single point of control.
Avantra tightly integrates with Cloud ALM, leveraging the existing Cloud ALM configuration as discovery, and automatically configuring Avantra to provide a single point-of-observability, control and policy across any combination of Cloud ALM instances. Built-in multi-tenant concepts correctly separate resource access and reporting by tenant.
Learn more about Avantra for Managed Services Providers
Scotts Miracle-Gro’s Achieves a 95% Faster System Refresh
Managing massive SAP workloads on AWS, ScottsMiracle-Gro’s lean IT team struggled with manual, resource-heavy system refreshes that took 4 days and required 5 staff members. By implementing Avantra’s intelligent automation, they slashed refresh times down to just 4 hours.
From 4 Days to 4 Hours
Industry-Leading Uptime: Nagarro’s SAP Operational Breakthrough
“Our success factors are a very high level of expertise and passionate customer responsibility. Our customers experience system availability of 99.995% thanks to Avantra.”
99.995% Uptime for Customers
x1F Achieves True SAP Automation with Avantra
“What sealed the deal was that Avantra not only solved our biggest pain point in monitoring but also opened the door to automation, which was critical for our future.”
60–80% Reduction in Manual Time for System Refreshes
Frequently asked questions
Where does Avantra fit in with the standard SAP landscape management tools?
When should SAP customers consider Avantra?
How does Avantra compare to LaMa for our existing on-premises deployments?
Functionally Avantra covers the same core landscape management functions as LaMa – plus additional automation depth. Avantra is designed to provide common landscape management functions including backup orchestration, start-and-stop, patches and upgrades orchestration and more, just like LaMa. Avantra extends this basic functionality to full System Copy/Refresh automation, sophisticated provisioning capabilities, certificate maintenance automation and more.
Avantra provides continuity for on-premises and hybrid landscape automation as SAP’s landscape management roadmap advances toward Cloud ALM and Cloud Application Services (CAS) — including through LaMa’s 2027 support timeline.