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I spend a lot of my time with customers, enterprise and service providers alike, and over the last two years the same sentence has come up in almost every one of those conversations: "We don't run the infrastructure any more. We still own the service level." That...
I spend a lot of my time with customers, enterprise and service providers alike, and over the last two years the same sentence has come up in almost every one of those conversations: "We don't run the infrastructure any more. We still own the service level." That...
This summer, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise SAP right now — the move from reactive operations to a fully autonomous foundation. It's a journey we know well, and over the next several weeks, we're going to...
Comparisons of SAP observability tools often evaluate which platforms can see inside SAP. Today, that’s nearly all of them. Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk can all get SAP telemetry. None of them are likely the best choice for an SAP-centric application, and...
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...
Validating SAP patches means answering three questions before anything reaches production: does this apply to my systems, what does it depend on, and what breaks if it goes wrong? For most SAP teams, the answer still comes from manual work. Someone reads the note,...
An Avantra SAP security dashboard gives SAP operations teams one view of SAP security KPIs, covering SAP Notes and HotNews status, system hardening, user access risk, and audit compliance across on-premises, hyperscaler, and RISE with SAP systems. Security teams have...
SAP customers are navigating a period of significant change. Of course, there’s the transition to Cloud ERP and the scheduled end of standard support options for ECC in 2027 - these are well known. Basis professionals will be familiar with changes in support for...
Effective S/4HANA migration monitoring closes the operational gaps that quietly undo complex SAP transitions. Avantra eliminates the seams between phases where visibility typically disappears exactly when it matters most: the shift from baseline to cutover, the blind...
For large enterprises, hybrid SAP landscapes are a long-term operating reality, not a transitional exception. It reflects a considered, risk-managed approach to transformation, and for most organizations the only realistic way forward. Existing ECC and S/4HANA...
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,...