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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...
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...
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...
New ICMAD bugs require immediate attention and patching for SAP systems. The dust has not yet settled on the CVSSv3 10.0 score Log4j security vulnerability, which has been keeping IT employees across all businesses very busy since December 2021. Read this article to...
As IT operations leaders, it’s intuitive and natural to desire fewer software products to manage an IT estate. That extends to standardizing all the operational processes to deliver significant benefits for the business. The case for fewer domain specific solutions...
Gartner reported that unplanned IT system downtime cost: $5,600 per minute. $300,000 per hour. IDC, on the other hand, estimates that system outages can cost a company between $500,000 to $1 million or more per hour. (“DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000...
Included with Avantra Enterprise edition, Avantra Add ins are pre-packaged best practice scenarios that accelerate your business time to value using our expertise. One such Add in is SUSE hardening and is based on the hardening guide from the makers of SUSE Enterprise...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...