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SAP Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Beyond Generic Metrics

SAP Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Beyond Generic Metrics

Your enterprise APM tool shows SAP is using 90% CPU. The dashboard turns red. An alert fires. Now what? You open Dynatrace. You see the Java Virtual Machine metrics for your NetWeaver stack. You see HTTP response times for your Fiori apps. You see a spike in database...

Integrating SAP into the modern world

Integrating SAP into the modern world

Within the last 8 years, there has been an acceleration into a new IT strategy of managing technical workloads in the cloud, along with utilizing ITSM solutions, such as ServiceNow, beyond just ticket management. Historically, for a multitude of reasons, SAP has been...

SAP Operations Teams Analysis: Here’s What We Learned

SAP Operations Teams Analysis: Here’s What We Learned

Last year, Avantra approached ASUG with an idea. What if we could expose the places where innovation was happening within SAP Operations teams? ASUG (Americas' SAP Users' Group) had insight into SAP customers and innovation from previous studies. So, it was a natural...

How We Safeguard Development and Delivery of Avantra

How We Safeguard Development and Delivery of Avantra

With the number of supply chain attacks across the software industry increasing and gaining extensive coverage in the media, it reminded us to asked ourselves if this is something that could happen to us as well. When security issues with unprecedented impact surface,...

Differentiation in the Market: SAP Managed Service Provider

Differentiation in the Market: SAP Managed Service Provider

Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to speak with SAP Managed Service Providers (MSPs) all over the world. From small niche MSPs, to large, Big Four consulting firms… and what I’ve always found so interesting is that once the practice directors and sales...

Hunting for the Humanity and Cognitive Power within our Tech Futures

Hunting for the Humanity and Cognitive Power within our Tech Futures

Augmented futures feel post-apocalyptic, unrealistic and built around the notion of a super-human-race. Until today, I’d never heard of Augmented Commerce, for example, but it made me think of robotic, emotionless shopping malls somewhere between The Jetsons and Red...

What is Operational Transparency?

What is Operational Transparency?

What does operational transparency mean? Why is it important to have transparency for your company’s operations and performance? Today, operational transparency is integral to your organization’s health and overall company well-being.  What is Operational...

What is Full Stack Automation?

What is Full Stack Automation?

What does full stack mean? What is full stack automation? Can you automate an SAP full stack? Why is SAP Full Stack Automation important? Today, automation is necessary when it comes to achieving optimization, best practice and efficiency in business processes.   What...

How SAP Automation is Saving Companies Money

How SAP Automation is Saving Companies Money

As more organizations turn to automation and AIOps, Avantra's very own Tyler Constable breaks down a few technical examples that will help keep the business and finance offices happy, as well. Automation has come a long way in the past year and half in the SAP world....

The Market Speaks: 3 Mega Trends in SAP Operations Automation

The Market Speaks: 3 Mega Trends in SAP Operations Automation

It's probably not a huge surprise to hear that the more complex an SAP landscape is, there's a 33% chance of higher costs, shortage of resources, and lack of consistency in management. We've always been aware how complex SAP technologies are and how critical they are...

3 Ways to Modernize Your Business Operations

3 Ways to Modernize Your Business Operations

Emily Tippins, Chief Marketing Officer and Brenton O'Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra had an interesting conversation on the topic of modernization of operations within IT. During the virtual meeting, they discussed giving granular-role based access to...

Smart Cloud Automation: Are you Scaling In and Saving Costs?

Smart Cloud Automation: Are you Scaling In and Saving Costs?

At a session for SAPInsider Events, Brenton O’Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer, and Tyler Constable, Director of Sales Engineering at Avantra discussed the future of Smart Cloud Automation and how businesses can save costs by scaling in. From using Smart Cloud...