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Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation

Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation

The cloud is the cheapest processing you can buy… until you get the bill! Unfortunately, Cloud service costs are notoriously opaque when it comes to transactional and operations costs. The results can be unexpected bills and even damage to the ROI of cloud programs....

Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation

The cloud is the cheapest processing you can buy… until you get the bill! Unfortunately, Cloud service costs are notoriously opaque when it comes to transactional and operations costs. The results can be unexpected bills and even damage to the ROI of cloud programs....

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Why is SAP security monitoring important?

Why is SAP security monitoring important?

SAP applications drive the most business critical processes in companies around the globe. It will not surprise anyone that cybersecurity is of utmost importance to prevent SAP customers from vulnerabilities. A joint threat intelligence report from SAP and Onapsis,...

Automatic creation of monitored objects in Avantra

Automatic creation of monitored objects in Avantra

One of the main development themes for the Avantra 21.11 release was making life easier. This includes using and rolling out Avantra. Our goal is to reduce the effort required on your part and let you focus on the things that are important to you and your business. As...

Log4j critical vulnerability advice for customers

Log4j critical vulnerability advice for customers

At Avantra, our customers trust us to keep their business operations based on SAP running smoothly. I have written in the past about the importance of SAP security, and how I believe that in the next few years, SAP risks becoming an attack vector for hackers. It...

Increase resilience: Respond to change with Avantra custom checks

Increase resilience: Respond to change with Avantra custom checks

SAP’s products, technology and development are rapidly changing. Once focused on on premise applications, SAP’s focus on rapid innovation in cloud technologies brings exciting, transformative change to your business. But it has also upended the way these new business...

SAP HotNews analysis: What MSPs need to know

SAP HotNews analysis: What MSPs need to know

SAP is one of the most business critical enterprise applications. As a result, keeping it secure is a top priority for managed service providers. In the last year SAP has notified its customers of multiple high risk vulnerabilities, through its SAP HotNews email...

SAP automation, the global economy and the future of work

SAP automation, the global economy and the future of work

I was talking to a customer starting to onboard with Avantra a few weeks ago, and they had just gone through a product launch. I asked whether they had noticed that their website had gone down during the product launch and they had not. It turns out that the inventory...

Best practice for managed service providers

Best practice for managed service providers

In the role as Chief Customer Officer, Brenton O'Callaghan regularly hears firsthand from our customers and partners about how they are evolving their sap operations workflows to embrace automation, intelligence and more. Three core themes for MSPs Most of the topics...

The hidden costs of downtime

The hidden costs of downtime

We’ve all been there: the dreadful unplanned and unexpected SAP downtime. Unplanned downtime comes with stress, pain, and usually a hefty cost; ranging from thousands of dollars to over a million per hour (a true case study from an Avantra customer). These costs...

AIOps: Why HR leaders should care

AIOps: Why HR leaders should care

Against a backdrop of budget cuts, HR leaders still hanker after a better experience from the technology they and their teams use to get their day-to-day work done - and in 2021, they are prepared to invest to make that happen.  That’s the message from Gartner’s 2021...

AIOPs: Why supply chain leaders should care

AIOPs: Why supply chain leaders should care

Resilience and agility: that’s what supply chain professionals are hoping to achieve from their technology investments in 2021 and beyond. A recent Gartner survey polled 1,300 respondents worldwide, and found that 87% plan investments in supply chain resiliency within...

AIOPs: why sales leaders should care

AIOPs: why sales leaders should care

At a time when consumer confidence is volatile, and easily dented by health or employment concerns, sales leaders know that it’s never been more important for companies to offer an excellent customer experience (CX).  But a 2021 study by global strategy firm McKinsey...

Advantages of going to the cloud with Avantra

Advantages of going to the cloud with Avantra

The cloud is changing the way businesses operate. We at Avantra thought now is the time to explore the great benefits of going to the cloud and why now is the time to consider doing so. To learn more about cloud integration options, see our official documentation....