Managing the Modern SAP Estate: Overcoming the 8 Critical Challenges of Hybrid SAP Operations
As SAP landscapes become more complex - spanning on-premises systems, cloud platforms, and hybrid environments - SAP operations teams face mounting pressure to maintain stability, security, and performance while enabling innovation. Traditional tools and manual processes struggle to keep pace with today’s scale and speed.
This eBook explores the eight most critical challenges facing modern SAP estates and provides a practical foundation for building intelligent, automated, and resilient SAP operations - today and into the cloud-first future.

Why This eBook Exists
Managing SAP operations is no longer just about keeping systems online - it’s about navigating constant change, growing complexity, and rising expectations.
As organizations modernize their SAP environments, operations teams must contend with:
- Hybrid and multi-cloud SAP landscapes
- Increasing alert noise and operational data overload
- Manual processes that don’t scale
- Compliance, security, and cost pressures
- Limited visibility across systems and teams
This eBook exists to help SAP leaders rethink operations for the modern era - moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, intelligent management that supports business growth and transformation.
Our SAP Landscape is very complex; we can’t even imagine managing or monitoring it without Avantra. No other tool on the market can give us the same results.
Richard Tresch
Head of SAP development - Coop
What You’ll Learn
A Practical View of Modern SAP Operations
This eBook breaks down the eight critical challenges shaping today’s SAP estates and explains how leading organizations are addressing them through automation, observability, and unified operations:
- AI-driven observability and proactive monitoring
- Automated compliance and system continuity
- Unified visibility across on-premises and cloud environments
- Scalable SAP landscape automation
- Cross-team alignment for security, performance, and cost control
Together, these areas represent the biggest risks - and the greatest opportunities - for SAP teams modernizing their operations in parallel with cloud adoption.

Automate repetitive SAP operations tasks
Optimize quality and control of SAP operations
Identify problems and anomalies and resolve them quickly
Simplify the creation and maintenance of automation workflows
Enforce consistency in operations
Improve quality and reducing human error
Enable self service for business owners, shortening time to value
Provide a single point of truth, streamlining operations considerably
Enhance security practices within your SAP IT operations
Provide full transparency across your SAP ecosystem
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"We needed better access to data about critical operations… our engineers were so busy reacting to day-to-day urgency, we had to outsource more strategic activities..."
"By using Avantra, we have been able to prevent serious failures in our SAP production systems. Today, we only need 1 to 2 hours to install server updates, we have been..."
Optimize quality and control of SAP operations
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