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Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn't say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct what's true right now. You did exactly that for the audit, after all....
Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn't say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct what's true right now. You did exactly that for the audit, after all....
During the summer of 2024, SAP quietly announced the end of the Landscape Manager product. You can find out more from SAP directly here, including linked SAP Notes. Unlike the news for Solution Manager or Focused Run, where the 2027 date signals a transition to...
Your enterprise APM tool shows SAP is using 90% CPU. The dashboard turns red. An alert fires. Now what? You open Dynatrace. You see the Java Virtual Machine metrics for your NetWeaver stack. You see HTTP response times for your Fiori apps. You see a spike in database...
Organizations transitioning from traditional on-premises SAP systems to Cloud ERP (formerly known as “RISE” and “GROW”) have a new set of monitoring challenges. Unlike the familiar on-prem landscape, where IT teams enjoyed full visibility and control, cloud...
I am pleased to announce the release of Avantra 25.2! While 25.2 is a service release focused on software stability, it introduces several powerful new features designed to streamline SAP automation and improve operational resilience. Let’s break down the key...
2025 and 2027 are well documented dates in SAP circles. Many SAP users have viewed the transition to S/4HANA and Cloud ERP as an opportunity for transformation, eliminating technical debt and enabling innovation. Just as many have recognized the complexity and size of...
Enterprises trust Ansible for fast, reliable infrastructure automation, including terraform for automated cloud provisioning. Many organizations using Ansible leverage Ansible SAP playbooks for SAP infrastructure automation. Avantra extends the scope of SAP operations...
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...
Cloud ERP arrives as the new holy grail of ERP architecture: a composable, flexible and scalable collection of core business services working together to meet enterprise ERP needs. Of course, getting there for a large enterprise with significant existing complexity...
Cloud Foundry is possibly the most popular environment on SAP Business Technology Platform. When customers build applications with the SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) framework to extend SAP S/4HANA solutions and achieve a clean core, they typically deploy...
“Do I need to monitor SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?” is the question many SAP customers are asking right now as projects are going live. As an SaaS product run by SAP, customers get access only through a public website, and SAP are responsible for the...
During customer implementations, we are often asked about the need for Avantra SAP transports. This post addresses many of the common questions we receive and explains the rationale behind our platform design decisions. Our choices are guided by security-first...
I am pleased to announce that we have released Avantra 25, the next evolution of the Avantra platform. This year we have focused on all things cloud, from native support of SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition to SAP RISE capable automation templates in our...