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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....
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....
If you’re looking to automate your SAP implementation, you’re not alone. Many organizations have no idea how to incorporate SAP into their existing processes. And as a result, they end up with a system that doesn’t fit their needs. What is SAP Automation? What is...
Typically, companies choose to partner with a Systems Integrator (SI) to help them with their transformation programme. And rightly so. The SI will have experience in running this type of transformation, the technology (regardless of what it is) and its subsequent...
In this blog post, we are pleased to announce our brand new Automated Kernel Upgrade solution, which is already available upon request through your CSM or Sales Representative. What Is The SAP Kernel? The SAP Kernel is a set of core programs that provides the basic...
What is SAP landscape management? It is the control and automation of complex SAP landscapes, including aspects such as landscape virtualization management, which focuses on optimizing the deployment and management of virtualized SAP environments. It is also the name...
In this article, Pierre Vonesch, Head of SAP Engineering at Avantra, will clarify the technical concepts behind SAP and briefly explain what SAP Basis is. What is SAP Basis? SAP Basis is the administration and operations layer of the SAP system that manages...
On February 24th, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order for a sweeping review of critical US supply chains. Shortages of protective gear for American healthcare workers seen in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic “should never have happened,” said...
One of the most common questions asked during an Avantra evaluation is 'how long does it take to implement Avantra?'. It’s a fair question and can have the typical 'it depends' answer... after all, it's like asking 'how long is a piece of string?'... but in this...
For an SAP expert like you, the prospect of a modernized and SAP-focused operations platform is something that will bring obvious benefit to the life of you and your team. Whether it be reducing the daily-check workload or getting proactive alerts before something...
For better or worse, application performance is one of those things that when managed correctly is a thankless job. However, when issues arise, it’s a nagging pain point for the business, employees, customers, vendors, and many other stakeholders. For many...
SAP MII SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) is a component of the SAP Manufacturing Suite that provides a manufacturing execution system (MES) and connects manufacturing processes with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This is the key...
On Monday (22nd of March 2021), the OpenSSL Software Foundation pre-announced their next release for this Thursday (25th of March 2021) which stated that “The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH”. For OpenSSL, HIGH, the second-highest of their...
This month, SAP has released note 3022622, ‘Code Injection Vulnerability in SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII)'. In summary this is an issue where an attacker can inject malicious code to the server. Surprisingly this is done through the creation...