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The case for Cloud ERP has been settled for a while. The case for this year has not. The transformation gap in the numbers Gartner's estimate is that over 60% of SAP customers remain on ECC with no decision yet to move, and by 2030 four in ten of today's ECC customers...
The case for Cloud ERP has been settled for a while. The case for this year has not. The transformation gap in the numbers Gartner's estimate is that over 60% of SAP customers remain on ECC with no decision yet to move, and by 2030 four in ten of today's ECC customers...
SAP on Azure means running SAP software, most commonly SAP Cloud ERP Private, S/4HANA, or an existing ECC estate, on Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure using SAP-certified virtual machines, storage, and networking instead of on-premises hardware. This guide covers...
SAP Solution Manager's mainstream maintenance ends December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance available through 2030 for an additional fee, though not covering every function, per SAP Note 3255311. For Basis engineers and IT operations leaders who've run change...
SAP operations teams are drowning. Every day is a battle against alert fatigue, complex root causes, and repetitive firefighting. And while vendor spin will tell you that moving to the cloud or adopting SAP RISE magically simplifies everything, the reality on the...
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...
Key takeaways RISE with SAP Private Cloud moves the infrastructure, not the accountability. You still own the application layer, configuration, custom code, and compliance. You lose OS shell access, database console rights, and infrastructure telemetry. Root cause...
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...
AIOps for SAP applies machine learning and automation to SAP operations data so teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues without manual checks. A platform built for SAP collects metrics from ECC, S/4HANA, HANA, Java, and BTP systems, correlates alerts into single...
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...