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The Elements of a Good SLA Agreement

The Elements of a Good SLA Agreement

 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...

Linux Eases the Migration Path to SAP S/4HANA

Linux Eases the Migration Path to SAP S/4HANA

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...

Unlock 5 SAP batch jobs monitors that will reduce your headaches

Unlock 5 SAP batch jobs monitors that will reduce your headaches

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...

Syslink Xandria’s blog has been selected to the top 60 SAP blogs

Syslink Xandria’s blog has been selected to the top 60 SAP blogs

Syslink Xandria blog is now among the World's TOP 60 SAP blogs - according to Feedspot. The Best SAP blogs were chosen from thousands of top SAP blogs in FeedSpot's index using search and social metrics. Data is refreshed once a week. These blogs are ranked based on...

Is your SAP Landscape in Sync?

“We just deployed enhancement packs and kernel updates 6 months ago, I know all systems are in sync”. We’ve all heard this before. It’s the typical statement given when everyone is pointing fingers at each other after a change that tested successfully in the quality...

SAP cloud automation – behind the scenes

SAP cloud automation – behind the scenes

Running SAP in the cloud is no longer the scary concept it once was and is actually pretty common practice now. Whether it’s one of the large public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or one of the private cloud based companies that excel in SAP...

Ensure HANA migration success: What to do before, during and after

Ensure HANA migration success: What to do before, during and after

HANA migrations are not simple. Whether you’re excited about it or not, migrating your SAP environment is probably somewhere on your roadmap over the next few years. As you’ve probably heard, it is not a straightforward process and could take a lot of time, effort and...

SAP Business services management – focus on the right issues

SAP Business services management – focus on the right issues

 In a 1954 speech to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was quoting Dr. J. Roscoe Miller, president of Northwestern University, said: "I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The...

Unlock SAP Predictive Analytics to Prevent System Failures

Unlock SAP Predictive Analytics to Prevent System Failures

 We are all familiar with predictive models for weather forecasting. So why can’t we do the same for SAP systems? Forecast your needs. Plan for changes. Prevent failures. Database and resource utilization are different in every application and are affected by the...