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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I have interviewed many SAP customers and identified 4 maturity levels; the bad news - most customers didn't get past the first level. The good news - once you recognize this, you can do something about it. I recently wrote about SAP Operations, and how SAP is well...
Last week, Brenton O’Callaghan, Head of Customer Experience at Avantra, sat with John Appleby, Chief Revenue Officer, to discuss the future of SAP Operations. Read the highlights of Appleby’s interview for actionable insights your organization can act on immediately....
Predictive analytics is the use of data, algorithms, and techniques involving machine learning to understand the chances of a possible outcome. Why has predictive analytics become so popular now? Predictive analytics is basically the use of data, algorithms, and...
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...