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Every Basis team has a list. The tasks nobody schedules because they get done by hand, by a Basis miracle worker who knows the sequence. System refresh. Parameter settings across multiple production systems. The cloud invoice with a number nobody can explain. The...
Every Basis team has a list. The tasks nobody schedules because they get done by hand, by a Basis miracle worker who knows the sequence. System refresh. Parameter settings across multiple production systems. The cloud invoice with a number nobody can explain. The...
For most SAP customers, Solution Manager has been the system of record for how change happens. It has run ChaRM to control transports, hosted the IT service management queue for incidents and requests, driven test management and process documentation, and provided the...
RISE with SAP is SAP's methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also transitioned from product to program, and the product parallel is SAP...
When SAP unveiled the Business AI Platform at Sapphire 2026, it folded BTP, Business Data Cloud, and Business AI into a single governed environment. BTP didn’t disappear but became essential architecture underneath SAP’s agentic AI direction. A big part of the...
Avantra secures SAP operations across five practitioner-level control areas: patch and HotNews monitoring, configuration drift detection, backup and restore, segregation of duties, and user deprovisioning. Each maps directly to a SOX IT general control objective,...
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....
Automating SAP Basis tasks means trading manual, repetitive administration work for scheduled or event-driven workflows. These workflows typically include automated health checks, job monitoring and recovery, system refresh post-processing, and patch validation. This...
Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP has changed significantly, as has our guidance for customers adopting...
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....
Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and approach, even though it’s often the most sensible and pragmatic. Years...
Avantra 21 introduced the concept of Automation workflows. By Avantra 23, compatibility with Ansible was added. Along the way, Avantra became the tool SAP teams reached for when they wanted system copies, refreshes, and backup orchestration to just run — predictably,...
SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were built for a static, on-premises world. Now, with the 2027...
There’s a crackle and spark in the air at Avantra lately, and I’m so pleased to be writing this bit on what we’ve accomplished with the Avantra 26 release. Automated root cause analysis, multi-tenant management support for Cloud ALM, enhanced security operations and...