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This summer, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise SAP right now — the move from reactive operations to a fully autonomous foundation. It's a journey we know well, and over the next several weeks, we're going to...
This summer, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise SAP right now — the move from reactive operations to a fully autonomous foundation. It's a journey we know well, and over the next several weeks, we're going to...
For large enterprises, hybrid SAP landscapes are a long-term operating reality, not a transitional exception. It reflects a considered, risk-managed approach to transformation, and for most organizations the only realistic way forward. Existing ECC and S/4HANA...
When SAP unveiled the Business AI Platform at Sapphire 2026, it folded BTP, Business Data Cloud, and Business AI into a single governed environment. BTP didn’t disappear but became essential architecture underneath SAP’s agentic AI direction. A big part of the...
Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn't say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct what's true right now. You did exactly that for the audit, after all....
Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP has changed significantly, as has our guidance for customers adopting...
If you’ve spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the "Configuration Tax." It’s that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new systems or integrations are brought under observability and management....
Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and approach, even though it’s often the most sensible and pragmatic. Years...
Avantra 21 introduced the concept of Automation workflows. By Avantra 23, compatibility with Ansible was added. Along the way, Avantra became the tool SAP teams reached for when they wanted system copies, refreshes, and backup orchestration to just run — predictably,...
SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were built for a static, on-premises world. Now, with the 2027...
There’s a crackle and spark in the air at Avantra lately, and I’m so pleased to be writing this bit on what we’ve accomplished with the Avantra 26 release. Automated root cause analysis, multi-tenant management support for Cloud ALM, enhanced security operations and...
An SAP system is an installed instance of SAP's business software that runs an organization's core processes, like finance, supply chain, and HR, on a single, shared database. If you're new to a company that runs on SAP, this guide explains what that actually means:...
A system refresh in SAP is the process of copying data, most often from Production, into a QA or test system so that testing happens against realistic, current data. Manually, it's one of the most time-consuming recurring tasks a Basis team owns. Before automating the...
Automating root cause analysis is often regarded as the holy grail of IT operations. A solution capable of automatically identifying issues, resolutions and even prevention. Performed correctly, automated root cause analysis accelerates MTTI (Mean Time to Identify)...