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What is AIOps for SAP? And What Can it Do for You?

What is AIOps for SAP? And What Can it Do for You?

John Appleby, Chief Executive Officer, and Brenton O’Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer, at Avantra recently came together during SAPInsider’s 2020 Virtual Conference to talk about AIOps and how it can help businesses automate their processes. Read more >...

Adapting to change: The future of SAP operations

Adapting to change: The future of SAP operations

SAPInsider recently hosted a webinar where John Appleby, CEO of Avantra, joined Matthew Lobaugh from AWS, Chance Veasey from Navisite, and Marcello Donato from Kayser-Roth Corporation.Matthew is part of the SAP Beyond Infrastructure Team at AWS, Chance is a Senior VP...

How Zappos’ SAP basis team live and deliver WOW

How Zappos’ SAP basis team live and deliver WOW

Get insight into how Avantra helped increase the efficiency of Zappos’ IT operations team and improved their work-life balance. John Appleby, CEO of Avantra, connected with Sandeep Cumbamanagalam, Business Applications Principal Software Engineer at Zappos, at...

SAP System Vulnerability: Attackers Can Perform Critical Actions

SAP System Vulnerability: Attackers Can Perform Critical Actions

SAP has just announced a security vulnerability that gives an attacker a way to potentially compromise SAP Java systems, affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system SAP recently pushed out the July patch day, with one patch ranking a CVSS...

5 Ways to Manage a Complex SAP Environment

5 Ways to Manage a Complex SAP Environment

Effectively running your SAP environment should be easier. Root-cause, automation, operational visibility are few of the things to allow for better management of your SAP landscape SAP is one of the largest business software companies in the world, with an estimated...

Planning for a Modernized AIOps Platform for SAP

Planning for a Modernized AIOps Platform for SAP

Keep up with an ever-changing business world by planning for change, and take steps to properly implement and continually improve SAP environments. Avantra team Brenton O'Callaghan, Head of Customer Success, Simon Wilson, COO, Tom Kelly, Director of sales for UKI,...

New Avantra 20.5 is here, what’s new?

New Avantra 20.5 is here, what’s new?

We are thrilled to announce the release of version 20.5 of Avantra providing the next step on the journey to a data-driven fully automated AIOps solution. The move toward a post-COVID world brings with it a lot of challenges and changes, which inevitably affect IT...

What is AIOps for SAP?

What is AIOps for SAP?

What is AIOps for SAP? John Appleby dives into AIOps, how issues are resolved and avoided with an intelligent operations platform, and the benefits AIOps provide for overall business operations. Last week I had a staycation in an RV. It was beautiful to see 10 of the...

The Bounce, the Trigger and Everything In-between – SAP Automation

The Bounce, the Trigger and Everything In-between – SAP Automation

In the past 18 months, the need for SAP operations automation grew. These 5 requirements are the ones we hear from most companies. Over the last 18 months or so I’ve had the privilege of speaking with many different SAP technical people in all different verticals and...

SAP Basis: The Challenges of the New Normal

SAP Basis: The Challenges of the New Normal

The world, as we once knew it, is changing, and for many technical SAP engineers that means working from home.  There are two types of people when it comes to working from home - those who are happy with it and those who are not.  For some, working from home means no...

5 Ways to Reduce Risk of Key Personnel Dependency When Managing SAP

5 Ways to Reduce Risk of Key Personnel Dependency When Managing SAP

The longer an employee stays with your team, the more knowledge they’ll acquire. But what happens when a valuable employee becomes sick or just leave your company? Unfortunately, if their insight isn't well documented, your company will loose valuable knowledge. When...

The Future of SAP Operations: Audience Q&A

The Future of SAP Operations: Audience Q&A

Brenton O’Callaghan, Head of Customer Experience at Syslink Xandria, asks John Appleby, Chief Revenue Officer, follow-up questions, provided by the audience, after November's Future of SAP Operations webinar. Read the highlights of the conversation below.  Prefer to...