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  |  By Brenton O'Callaghan
RISE is one of the hottest topics around SAP. It's almost difficult to read or discuss SAP without the topic present. But with any topic as complex as SAP, the question of where to run SAP and ultimately RISE as an option isn't without opportunity for questions. This blog tries to clear up some of the most common questions, especially for companies considering RISE coming from an existing expertise of either operating SAP themselves or having experience with SaaS solutions and cloud services.
  |  By Avantra Team
SAP S/4HANA is one of the most innovative ERP solutions in the software industry due to its real time insight delivery and high efficiency. As an in memory data platform, SAP S/4HANA simplifies administration and management in the IT space. It allows users to centralize the network resources and hardware to have easier accessibility. SAP S/4HANA facilitates bringing multiple systems' transactional and analytical abilities into one place, leading to better decision making, which can be cost effective in the long run. Users can also generate reports and execute decisions based on real time data.
  |  By Brenton O'Callaghan
Today, I am thrilled and privileged to announce a remarkable achievement at Avantra - a landmark feat in customer satisfaction and loyalty! For the third consecutive year, our relentless commitment to excellence has culminated in setting the industry benchmark with an exceptional Net Promoter Score (NPS) of +63 and a Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) score of 91%. These numbers aren't just figures; they are a testament to the trust and loyalty our customers have in us.
  |  By Oliver Rogers
I can't believe it's already been a year since the release of Avantra 23 in 2022. Over the past year, we've released three minor releases, 23.1, 23.2 & 23.3 that brought meaningful quality of life improvements across the entire product. We are bringing new checks, new performance optimizations, and highly requested features from our ideas portal (login needed). Additionally, there will be two new editions (Automation & Observability) so that customers can make better use of the features we have, and we have squashed 100s of bugs in different scenarios that our customers encounter in their day to day.
  |  By Tyler Constable
RISE with SAP bundles transformation services, ERP software, partner expertise guides, and business analytics to facilitate cloud migration for ERP processes and data. It lets users follow a clean core strategy for ERP optimization and innovate their business processes on a larger scale. Businesses can also enjoy real time data viewing and AI backed user interactions. The no and low code development tools further reduce operational and maintenance costs, allowing swift business process customization.
  |  By Brenton O'Callaghan
At Avantra, we believe in empowering our customers to make the most of their digital transformation journey. In line with our commitment to provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to succeed, we are excited to announce not one, but two exclusive 4 day automation training sessions in 2024! Frankfurt, Germany - January 15th to 18th, 2024 USA - middle of the year (Specific dates to be announced)
  |  By John Appleby
My last thoughts on this blog were published some two and a half years ago, and the topic of RISE with SAP and where it best fits has evolved over time. By now, SAP RISE is familiar to the SAP marketplace and has become more understood and recognized – though how SAP markets the solution leaves some subtle and important details unclear.
  |  By Avantra Team
Picture the SAP Kernel as the heartbeat of the system, vitalizing the core programs upon which the fundamental functionality of SAP applications rely on. It's the life force pulsing through the application server, executable programs, database, and operating system, rather than merely encompassing them within itself. SAP Kernel upgrades refer to updating the system's current executables with upgraded versions. These upgrades are essential to patch security vulnerabilities and fix bugs. Besides bug fixing, SAP Kernel upgrades improve hardware compatibility, boost speed, and enhance stability.
  |  By Avantra Team
Managecore is a managed service provider (MSP) offering solutions ranging from data center transformation and public cloud services to virtualization and IT managed services. The company wanted to ensure operational transparency for its clients. In doing so, Managecore planned to improve customer service by making it easier for clients to monitor their SAP environments and get real time alerts. Avantra, an automation platform for SAP and non SAP environments, stepped in with its AIOps platform to offer a multitenancy solution to Managecore. Besides automation, Avantra provided a real time SAP monitoring solution.
  |  By Bernd Engist
E-3 Magazine, in the June 2023 issue, featured a cover story about Avantra and the collaboration with our customer Nagarro. Reason enough to let the mind wander a bit and write a little more about this exceptionally good collaboration. It all started in 2013, back when CIBER Managed Services GmbH and our solution was not yet called Avantra, but Xandria. From the initial product presentation in Freiburg im Breisgau, my hometown, it was easy to see how well the attendees understood the solution, and from the questions and answers, it became clear how well we, at Avantra, knew the problems of a fast growing managed services business.
  |  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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Panel discussion from the Global Avantra Summit 2023.
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Avantra and Scotts Miracle-Gro success story from the Global Avantra Summit 2023.
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Avantra and UMB success story from the Global Avantra Summit 2023.
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Keynote from the Global Avantra Summit 2023 Find out more at avantra.com.
  |  By Avantra
Discover what's new in Avantra 24.
  |  By Avantra
Brenton O'Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra and Tyler Constable, Global Head of Engineering at Avantra, walk us through the new Avantra Cloud Edition for RISE with SAP.
  |  By Avantra
Learn more about RISE with SAP for Managed Service Providers with Tyler Constable, Global Head of Solution Engineering, Avantra.
  |  By Avantra
In May, 2023, we launched four new editions of our product. They replace the previous Standard, Pro and Enterprise editions of Avantra. In this on demand video we present the new editions and explain how each edition can help you achieve your business goals.
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  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.

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.