Is your SAP world ready for the cloud?
Running SAP systems in the cloud promises agility, scalability, and cost savings. But many organizations discover that migrating SAP to the cloud introduces unexpected complexity – often before, during, and after go-live.
In the Whitepaper, “3 Unexpected SAP Cloud Challenges and How to Conquer Them,” we examine the hidden operational risks of SAP cloud adoption and explain how enterprises and Managed Service Providers can overcome them with the right visibility, automation, and control.
Key Learnings and Challenges Explored
The Whitepaper reveals three critical challenges that consistently undermine SAP cloud initiatives – turning what should be a strategic advantage into a costly operational burden:
- Inconsistent standards: Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP each introduce different tools, processes, and capabilities. Managing SAP across hybrid or multi-cloud landscapes quickly leads to fragmented operations, inefficiencies, and higher overhead.
- Lack of visibility: Native cloud monitoring tools focus on infrastructure components – virtual machines, operating systems, and databases – while offering little to no insight into SAP-specific performance metrics like work processes, batch jobs, or business processes.
- Higher-than-expected costs: Inefficient scaling prevents SAP systems from dynamically adjusting to actual business demand. As a result, resources remain over-provisioned during low-usage periods, rapidly eroding projected cloud cost savings.
These challenges are amplified in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, where fragmented tools and limited insight make proactive planning, budgeting, and performance management nearly impossible.
Key Solutions and Strategic Insights
Avantra’s Whitepaper explains how organizations can conquer these SAP cloud challenges by adopting unified visibility and intelligent automation across their entire landscape. With Avantra, organizations gain:
- Single-pane-of-glass visibility across SAP and non-SAP systems – on-premises, in the cloud, and across multiple IaaS providers.
- Performance-driven auto-scaling, enabling SAP systems to scale vertically and horizontally based on SAP performance metrics and business KPIs – not just infrastructure signals.
- Automated cost optimization, increasing resources during peak demand and scaling down during nights, weekends, or low-usage periods to control operating expenses.
- Continuous monitoring during cloud and SAP HANA migrations, even when systems are offline—eliminating visibility gaps and reducing security and compliance risks.
- Pre- and post-migration benchmarking, allowing teams to validate performance improvements and quantify the true value of cloud migration.
- Fast, low-friction deployment, with installation completed in minutes – without long, consultant-heavy implementation projects.
By replacing fragmented tools with intelligent automation, Avantra enables SAP teams to turn cloud complexity into a scalable, predictable, and cost-efficient operating model.
