Unified SAP Operations Across Solution Manager, Cloud ALM and Beyond
Avantra gives Basis teams a single operational platform across on-premises, hybrid, and Cloud ERP — working alongside Solution Manager today and Cloud ALM tomorrow.
Zuverlässige, hybride Observability und Automatisierung für den SAP-Betrieb – vom lokalen System bis zur Cloud.
Planning the Transition from Solution Manager
SAP Basis Teams have trusted Solution Manager with operations for years. As SAP’s roadmap for Solution Manager evolves toward Cloud ALM, large enterprises running ECC or S/4HANA on-premises need a solution capable that extends Cloud ALM, supports hybrid operations and simplifies the transition between platforms.
Compare Solution Manager, Cloud ALM and Avantra for SAP AIOps
| Category | Solution Manager | Cloud ALM | Avantra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operational Focus | Designed for on-premises deployments, especially ECC and S/4HANA. | Designed for Cloud ERP with a cloud-first approach, primarily Cloud ERP Private and Public deployments. Ideal for customers with modest landscapes and a cloud-first focus. | Designed for SAP, anywhere it runs, and any size estate. |
| Systems Ops | Monitoring designed for managing on-premises systems. Requires significant manual configuration and ongoing maintenance. Complex landscapes and multi-tenant management often required Focused Run as a separate add-on. | Solid monitoring capabilities with some manual configuration required for definitions and upkeep. Best for moderately sized landscapes already running on Cloud ERP. | AI-driven Root Cause Analysis automatically detects outlier behaviors without manual configuration, prevents many outages and automatically diagnoses root cause and next best action when one occurs. Policy based configuration scales to hundreds of landscapes and thousands of hostnames easily across on-premises, hyperscaler and Cloud ERP deployments. |
| Security Ops | Limited Automation – not specifically designed for security management. | Most security automation for Cloud ERP Private is delivered via optional Cloud Application Services (CAS), separate from the base Cloud ALM offering. | Extensive automation across certificate management, HotNews and Security notes, configuration drift detection, Profile monitoring, BTP and Cloud Connector, Kernel Upgrades and logfile based monitoring. |
| Financial Ops | Keine. | FinOps is intentionally outside Cloud ALM’s scope — BTP spend management is handled via the BTP Cockpit. | Robust consumption and idle system monitoring identifies under-and-over utilization and cost optimization opportunities. |
| Automatisierung | Limited automation. Landscape Management (LaMa) functions require a separate product. | Designed to work in conjunction with optional Cloud ERP Cloud Applications Services for operations automation tasks and infrastructure management. | Hundreds of built in checks and compatibility with Ansible. Robust support for complex run book activities including fully automated system refresh. |
| Multi-Tenant Support | Keine. | Designed for managing a single tenant. Customers with multiple tenants manage each independently. | Extends Cloud ALM with enterprise-grade multi-tenant management — providing a single operational hub across multiple Cloud ALM instances, BTP tenants, and on-premises landscapes. Supports tenant-specific backup of Avantra configuration. |
| Migration Projects & Hybrid Support | Not designed for Cloud ERP. | Limited. Cloud ALM is cloud-first by design. Integration with Focused Run is available but requires customers to manage both solutions separately. | Designed to aid customers in the transition from on-premises to hyperscaler and Cloud ERP deployments. Ease of migration and consistent functionality and support as landscapes move between underlying infrastructure platforms and transform over time. |
Avantra is the ideal partner for migration and hybrid SAP operations
Run and Maintain
- Automated operations your team owns. Avantra’s automation framework lets Basis teams encode institutional knowledge — health checks, routine jobs, threshold-based responses — so operational continuity doesn’t depend on tribal knowledge or manual intervention.
Migrate and Transform
Avantra maintains full operational continuity across every phase of a migration project, from legacy on-premises systems through hyperscaler deployment to Cloud ERP, with no visibility gaps between cutover milestones.
- De-risk legacy systems operation during migration and transition projects, supporting ECC and S/4HANA on-premises effectively until decommissioning is supported by business case.
Optimize Cloud ERP
Avantra delivers the monitoring, automation, security, and FinOps coverage that Private Cloud ERP customers require — filling the operational gaps that remain as infrastructure responsibility shifts to SAP’s cloud delivery model.
- Complementary to Cloud ALM. Avantra is purpose-built to sit alongside SAP Cloud ALM, extending operational depth for monitoring, automation and security for the most complex SAP operations and estates.
Observability at Scale…Simplified
Avantra’s policy-based concepts scale monitoring and observability to the most complex SAP estates with ease. Manage thousands of hostnames across on-premises, hyperscaler and Cloud ERP easily. Many best practices and monitoring standards are configured automatically, using AI to learn the operations environment and configure Avantra accordingly.
Easier Automation
Avantra’s depth in SAP is unmatched, providing automation for regular configuration checks, system health and even complex run-book automation including fully automated system refresh and backup orchestration.
Root Cause Analysis
Unique to Avantra, AI-driven root cause analysis automatically identifies potential outages before they occur, and the next best action of response including diagnoses when they do.
Reduce Mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) and drive SAP uptime and availability with AI-driven root-cause analysis purpose built for SAP operations, reducing time to respond and improving uptime across complex estates.
Enable any IT professional key SAP Ops expertise, providing the information necessary to accurately further diagnose unfamiliar technology in the landscape.
Master Multi-Tenant Operations in SAP
Avantra extends Cloud ALM with enterprise-grade multi-tenant management, giving MSPs and complex organizations a single operational hub across multiple Cloud ALM instances, BTP tenants, and on-premises landscapes.
With deep integration into Cloud ALM and SAP for Me — including leveraging existing Cloud ALM configuration as discovery — Avantra delivers centralized observability, control, and policy at scale
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Häufig gestellte Fragen
What is SAP's roadmap for Solution Manager?
What does Avantra add to SAP Solution Manager environments?
How does Avantra work with SAP Cloud ALM?
Avantra integrates directly with SAP Cloud ALM, extending its operational depth for organizations managing hybrid landscapes across on-premises, hyperscaler, RISE, and BTP deployments. As teams adopt Cloud ALM for cloud-first workloads, Avantra adds operational depth alongside Cloud ALM — covering basis automation, job management, security operations, and multi-tenant management across the full breadth of the SAP estate.
Does Avantra support migration from on-premises SAP to Cloud ERP?
Yes. Avantra is designed specifically to support the operational continuity required during migration projects. It runs in parallel with existing on-premises landscapes throughout the transition, ensuring Basis teams have full visibility across every phase, from legacy ECC through hyperscaler deployment to Cloud ERP, without managing multiple separate monitoring tools.