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Anyone working in the SAP market in 2025 is aware of two big topics: migration to cloud-based ERP and the end of many long-used tools for managing SAP operations including Focused Run, Landscape Manager and Solution Manager. Both are impossible to ignore. Cloud-based...
Anyone working in the SAP market in 2025 is aware of two big topics: migration to cloud-based ERP and the end of many long-used tools for managing SAP operations including Focused Run, Landscape Manager and Solution Manager. Both are impossible to ignore. Cloud-based...
In the last 20 years, the software ecosystem has invested billions of dollars increasing software security using automate updates. Is your SAP systems protected? A guest post by John Appleby You may have opened your laptop in the last month only to be notified that...
From a niche retail distributor to an oil and gas giant, the efficiency and overall success of organizations can be readily determined by the rigor of their SAP monitoring process. To ensure the operational management of your mission-critical SAP systems is both sound...
By effectively and consistently managing SAP and the cloud CIOs can actively improve business process monitoring, predict resource consumption, improve SAP system security, and enable cloud scalability. It’s no secret that organizations perform best when their CIO...
Industry 4.0 places heightened demands on IT operations SEW-EURODRIVE is a world-leading producer of drive and automation technology. With its more than 17,000 employees worldwide, the owner-managed family business based in Bruchsal, Germany offers a complete...
Cloud computing has exploded, taking over virtually every industry. Read on to explore its fascinating history, as well as future trends in cloud computing. Before we jump into 2019 cloud computing trends and why they matter, let's take a brief look at where cloud...
Application performance management tools, end-user experience tools, learn how all of these tools can help you ensure SAP systems’ performance and health. Application Performance Management describes the monitoring and management of performance and availability of...
For an enterprise to be successful within any industry, it’s no secret that their SAP systems must be secure, efficient, and agile. From car manufacturers to pharmaceutical companies to retail businesses, and more, when SAP systems run smoothly, crucial daily...
Agentless SAP monitoring systems seem like the easy way to go, no installation and no deployment. However, a deeper dive between agent vs agentless SAP monitoring systems will reveal some very interesting facts that need to be considered before making a decision. A...
SAP HANA is one of the most notable technology innovations in many years, and nearly all SAP products introduced subsequent to SAP HANA have the capabilities to integrate with the platform. Rather than being a conventional database, SAP HANA is an in-memory data...
The SLA is the contract that defines the relationship and how it will work going forward. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the specific metrics by which the performance is gauged against the agreed upon standards. In the previous post we discussed the value of...
Guest blog by Naji Almahmoud, Vice President Global Alliances, Solutions and Business Development at SUSE Capture the Benefits Before the 2025 Deadline SAP managers can’t afford to ignore SAP S/4HANA projects for two key reasons. First, the maintenance window for SAP...
Batch jobs are critical to the organization. While most enterprises monitor their critical batch jobs, there are five failure types that could go unnoticed and cause a lot of damage. Batch jobs are background tasks that are provided with more allocated memory than the...