RISE with SAP and Avantra
From the outside, RISE with SAP looks like a promising solution. It has the luster of a SaaS solution – no on premise hardware, no ‘on hands’ maintenance, just a single contract with everything covered underneath it.
This whitepaper, written by Avantra’s Global Head of Solution Engineering, Tyler Constable, takes a look at how RISE with SAP contracts are written and how the automation and observability that comes with the Avantra platform frees up time for basis engineers to focus on greater value projects.
Key Learnings and Challenges Explored
The Whitepaper highlights the realities of RISE with SAP – revealing contractual, architectural, and operational challenges that leaders must understand before and after adopting RISE:
- RISE shifts infrastructure responsibility to hyperscalers and service integrators, meaning SAP holds the contract while third parties run large parts of the stack.
- Large enterprises face significant hybrid complexity, with hundreds of systems spanning on-premise, multiple clouds, and legacy applications.
- Hybrid becomes unavoidable: Even fully migrated environments still rely on interfaces to banks, vendors, SaaS apps, tax systems, and legacy ERPs.
- RISE’s built-in monitoring covers only OS, DB, and parts of the SAP layer – not the deeper business health indicators Basis teams rely on.
- Critical business checks remain the customer’s responsibility, including batch jobs, cross-system communication, iDocs, upload times, and short dumps.
- Audit-related controls still require continuous oversight, such as client settings, component levels, segregation of duties, and profile parameters.
- Fragmented visibility across hybrid environments makes proactive operations difficult, especially when monitoring is split across providers, integrators, and internal teams.
These challenges make hybrid AIOps essential – not optional – for organizations embracing RISE with SAP.
Key Solutions and Strategic Insights
Avantra’s Whitepaper explains how enterprises can leverage smart automation and observability to simplify operations and unlock the full potential of RISE with SAP. With Avantra, organizations gain:
- Hybrid AIOps visibility across all SAP and non-SAP systems, including interfaces, SaaS services, hyperscalers, and on-premise dependencies.
- Automated business health checks for batch jobs, iDocs, upload times, short dumps, and cross-system communications – areas RISE does not cover.
- Continuous audit and compliance monitoring, including client settings, ABAP component levels, SoD checks, and profile parameters.
- Deep workflow automation powered by BAPIs, enabling organizations to automate business-level SAP tasks – not just technical ones.
- Native integrations with ServiceNow, VMware, and hyperscalers, supporting event management, CMDB enrichment, incident creation, and full-stack automation.
- Enhanced automation engine in Avantra 25, enabling workflows like automated system refreshes for non-RISE environments – saving teams days of manual effort.
- Freedom to innovate across both RISE and non-RISE systems, ensuring organizations maintain operational excellence no matter their architecture.
Whether you choose to adopt RISE with SAP or maintain a hybrid landscape, Avantra gives SAP operations teams the automation, intelligence, and visibility they need to deliver consistent, reliable results – at scale.
