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...
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RISE with SAP: Successfully Managing SAP Operations During the Transition
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...
SAP security audit: How to ensure your SAP system is secure
With huge variations of customized applications and modules depending on the individual organization though, highly sensitive data - if not secured properly - can be extremely vulnerable. In this article, we’ll discuss SAP security, the process of conducting an SAP...
Meet the team: Bernd Engist
Next up in our Meet the team blog series, we feature our Chief Customer Officer, Bernd Engist. Bernd is based in Switzerland, the home of Avantra. He has been a key part of Avantra for over 21 years. Read on to know more about Bernd. Apart from being a seasoned...
Using SAP in manufacturing for increased productivity
As the landscape continues to become more challenging, it's safe to say automation is the future of manufacturing. Changing customer demands, supply chain constraints and pressure for faster turnaround are some of the realities that companies face. This has predicated...
SAP cloud integration – A definitive guide
Deciding between SAP cloud integration methods can be confusing. There are so many options out there, with each one offering different benefits. In this article, we’ll discuss the benefits and drawbacks to a SAP cloud on Rise integration methods. We’ll also cover the...
Go further, faster: Answer extreme demand for intelligent automation
I have been attending DSAG Technology Days for over a decade. Every year the challenges fellow SAP operations professionals face grows like wildfire. Now, in 2022, IT functions work with distributed, containerized, hybrid, immutable and microservice landscapes - to...
What is SAP Cyber Security? It’s Not Just Roles & Authorizations
Your GRC dashboard shows green. Segregation of duties violations are at zero. Role assignments follow least-privilege principles. Your auditors signed off last quarter. Then ransomware encrypts your HANA database. The attackers never touched your authorization layer....
Meet the team: Peter Asigbetse
Next up in our Meet the team blog series, we feature one of our Principal Consultants for SAP, Peter Asigbetse. Located in the United Kingdom, Peter recently joined the Avantra team full time after starting as part time a few years back. Get to know Peter Asigbetse...
Avantra 21.11.4: Monitor Java instances without an SAPControl user
Each Avantra version packs powerful features and enhancements that make it even simpler to work with and integrate - leading to better system quality, resilience and compliance. Avantra 21.11.4 lives up to this expectation by offering the new remote Java monitoring...
Stay secure: Enhanced SAP HotNews integration in Avantra 21.11.4
Securing your SAP environments is critical to the operational success of your business. And SAP does a great job of trying to stay ahead of any vulnerabilities in their solutions by offering HotNews. As critical vulnerabilities are discovered, SAP weights their...
Meet the team: John Appleby
Kicking off our Meet the team blog series, we are featuring our Chief Executive Officer, John Appleby. Prior to Avantra, John served as the Global Head of DDM/HANA Center of Excellence at SAP and as the Global Head of SAP HANA solutions at Bluefin Solutions,...
Don’t pay the price for not automating SAP operations
At Avantra, we always comment that the customers who need us most are too busy to meet with us. It is so common that SAP operations professionals turn up to meetings late, reschedule at short notice, or are not really present - instead, working on their laptop to...
SAP Cloud Security: A strong defense is the first step
Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP cloud security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are...