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By Robert MacDonald
The cloud is the cheapest processing you can buy... until you get the bill! Unfortunately, Cloud service costs are notoriously opaque when it comes to transactional and operations costs. The results can be unexpected bills and even damage to the ROI of cloud programs. SAP BTP is no exception, but it doesn't have to be this way. Good FinOps discipline is readily available for BTP - and beyond avoiding "bill shock" such monitoring is just good operational hygiene, preserving budget and resources for productive investment.
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By Avantra Team
Enterprises use SAP well beyond simple back-office only accounting software. Today’s SAP systems are highly integrated and used by thousands of people daily across dozens of departments, and that’s just for a single large enterprise! As a central part of business operations, getting SAP security right, and durable operations with it, have become essential responsibilities for IT teams.
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By Avantra Team
In mid-2024, SAP announced the discontinuation of SAP Landscape Management ("LaMa"). This wasn't a huge surprise, as the 2027 end-of-support date aligns neatly with Solution Manager, Focused Run and standard support for ECC. SAP also terminated work on SAP Landscape Management Cloud, discontinuing that product immediately. Responses to the post were as expected: customers asking, "What now?" and even expressing a bit of dismay. One response from SAP was especially telling: "Moving the ERP system to the cloud hands over the tasks realized with SAP Landscape Management to SAP as cloud vendor.
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By Brenton O'Callaghan
SAP operations teams are drowning. Every day is a battle against alert fatigue, complex root causes, and repetitive firefighting. And while vendor spin will tell you that moving to the cloud or adopting SAP RISE magically simplifies everything, the reality on the ground is entirely different. We call it the Hybrid Cloud Paradox: Different providers might own different parts of your critical business landscape, but you still own the business risk.
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By Avantra
Your enterprise APM tool shows SAP is using 90% CPU. The dashboard turns red. An alert fires. Now what? You open Dynatrace. You see the Java Virtual Machine metrics for your NetWeaver stack. You see HTTP response times for your Fiori apps. You see a spike in database calls. None of this tells you why VA01 takes 45 seconds to create a sales order. None of this tells you which custom ABAP report is consuming memory. None of this explains the short dump that crashed your pricing routine. This is the gap between generic APM and true SAP application performance monitoring. Your enterprise tools see the symptoms.
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By Avantra
During the summer of 2024, SAP quietly announced the end of the Landscape Manager product. You can find out more from SAP directly here, including linked SAP Notes. LaMa Discontinued Community Post Unlike the news for Solution Manager or Focused Run, where the 2027 date signals a transition to extended support options, with LaMa the product is discontinued and extended support options aren’t available. For customers using Lama, the announcement and timeline are disruptive.
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By Avantra Team
Organizations transitioning from traditional on-premises SAP systems to Cloud ERP (formerly known as "RISE" and "GROW") have a new set of monitoring challenges. Unlike the familiar on-prem landscape, where IT teams enjoyed full visibility and control, cloud environments can feel like a "black box," with limited direct access to the underlying infrastructure and reliance on service tickets to understand system status.
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By Oliver Rogers
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 deliverables and benefits for Avantra users in this release.
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By Avantra Team
2025 and 2027 are well documented dates in SAP circles. Many SAP users have viewed the transition to S/4HANA and Cloud ERP as an opportunity for transformation, eliminating technical debt and enabling innovation. Just as many have recognized the complexity and size of the project, and opted for a technical upgrade, often called brownfield migration or a lift-and-shift, as the first step of a larger Cloud ERP journey. Driving the migration project urgency, commercial incentives and transition options from SAP may ease end of support dates for existing systems.
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By Avantra Team
Enterprises trust Ansible for fast, reliable infrastructure automation, including terraform for automated cloud provisioning. Many organizations using Ansible leverage Ansible SAP playbooks for SAP infrastructure automation. Avantra extends the scope of SAP operations using Ansible, adding observability, ITSM and ALM solution integration, and orchestration across the SAP estate. Avantra and Ansible together provide a closed-loop solution where monitoring, automation and proof of outcome live in one place across on-premise, hyperscaler and private cloud ERP implementations.
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By Avantra
See why Avantra is the leading AIOps platform purpose-built for SAP. Avantra enable global enterprises and MSPs to break down silos, gain real-time visibility across hybrid SAP landscapes, and proactively orchestrate operations from a single point of control. With Avantra, SAP teams can shift from maintenance to innovation, accelerate their cloud ERP journeys, and deliver the resilience and agility their businesses demand.
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By Avantra
Nagarro has been a valued customer for over ten years. Here's their story... Nagarro started with the Avantra platform's monitoring capabilities and today, have reached full automation. An achievement which offers this large managed service provider real competitive advantage. Now, the custom checks allow Nagarro to eliminate manual work and focus their teams on delivering great customer service and strategic projects.
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By Avantra
In this video, we show you how to access and use the GraphQL API in Avantra available from Avantra 24 and above.
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By Avantra
In this video, we show you all the new features released with Avantra 24 including the add-ins library, new Automations including SAP HotNews Note implementations, GIT integration and much more.
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By Avantra
Running SAP systems in the cloud can provide a litany of benefits to users at every level of the organization. However, many hidden, unexpected and expensive challenges can quickly arise before, during and after migrating mission-critical SAP systems to the cloud. In this white paper you'll discover the three main challenges plaguing both Enterprise IT operations and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) today, and learn how to overcome them.
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By Avantra
SAP creates some of the world's most popular products for managing information, with more than 400 million users worldwide. But SAP connectivity presents one of the biggest security risks for your company. In this ebook, we will consider some of the steps you can take to secure your SAP systems: we'll explore how SAP systems can be compromised, plus we will investigate some of the ways to prevent this from happening.
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By Avantra
Are you ready to migrate to HANA? When HANA platform is implemented correctly, it has proven itself to deliver greater results in analytic intelligence, performance, data processing, and better ROI with faster time-to-value. Planning and executing a successful migration to SAP HANA depends upon a comprehensive understanding of the overall process and careful monitoring during the five main stages of a migration.
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By Avantra
SAP software runs every aspect of many enterprises, from mission-critical line-of-business systems to administrative and support services. Ensuring the availability of these systems is crucial - an IDC report estimates that system outages can cost a company between $500,000 to $1 million or more per hour.
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Avantra is the industry-leading AIOps platform for SAP Operations. It provides Enterprises and MSPs unmatched intelligence into their landscape health.
Managing your enterprise's SAP landscape is tough. That's why the Avantra platform simplifies SAP operational tasks so that you and your team can get some proper downtime - the kind that gives you the bandwidth to add real business value.
Support your SAP teams with intelligent automation:
- Observe: Know exactly what's in your SAP estate at any moment. Using ML based predictive analytics Avantra gives you a clear view of anomalous configuration and runtime issues. Everything from security hardening to predicting future system overloads.
- Engage: Avantra communicates with centralized IT workflows like ServiceNow. It routes issues to the right resource whether it's for the Enterprise Security team or a business owner of a specific system - it'll go to the next available change window.
- Act: Avantra is the leading business process management automation platform for IT operations. Fix insecure configurations, patch security vulnerabilities, update systems with the latest production data - automatically within agreed change windows.
SAP operations is complex enough. Simplify it with intelligent automation.