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Avantra 26 next-gen automation: self-service SAP workflows with full guardrails

Avantra 26's next-gen automation experience puts SAP automations in the hands of your users — through guided wizards with scoped permissions, lifecycle notifications, and a full audit trail. Watch this demo of SAP client settings (SCC4) change on a RISE with SAP S/4HANA system: configured in five steps, executed automatically, documented end to end. Avantra customers reduce manual operational effort by up to 70%. Now you're really running.

Avantra + SAP Cloud ALM Demo: Two-way Cloud ALM sync in action across your entire hybrid estate.

An SAP Cloud ALM Silver Partner, Avantra 26 delivers a production-ready SAP Cloud ALM integration — two-way sync of system data and alerts, multi-tenant Cloud ALM visibility, and the ability to act on Cloud ALM systems directly within Avantra. One platform for RISE, hybrid, and everything beyond.

Home Sweet Hybrid - There's more to your transition than core ERP

Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and approach, even though it’s often the most sensible and pragmatic. Years ago, everything ran on-premises.
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Clouds Without the Fog: Unified Control for Hybrid SAP

SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were built for a static, on-premises world. Now, with the 2027 end-of-support deadline for legacy solutions looming, the "fog" of hybrid management is getting thicker.

Avantra Platform Overview

Introducing Avantra: Purpose-built for SAP, Avantra's AIOps platform empowers the world’s top global enterprises and MSPs to run at their best — preventing costly unplanned downtime by automating the detection and resolution of operational issues before they impact the business. An SAP Partner Edge Build and Cloud ALM Silver Partner, Avantra partners with SAP to enable teams to observe everything, automate what matters, govern continuously, and navigate SAP transformation with clarity and confidence... anywhere SAP runs.

7 Proven Steps to Maintain Operational Continuity During S/4HANA Migration

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is one of the most consequential system changes your organization will undertake. The technical complexity alone is significant. But the real risk is operational: maintaining uninterrupted service delivery while transforming the core systems your business depends on. Failure to manage this well causes outages, data inconsistencies, user disruption, and cost overruns. None of those are acceptable outcomes. The good news is these risks are manageable.

Stop Guessing, Start Fixing: AI Root Cause Analysis

Automating root cause analysis is often regarded as the holy grail of IT operations. A solution capable of automatically identifying issues, resolutions and even prevention. Performed correctly, automated root cause analysis accelerates MTTI (Mean Time to Identify) and MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution). But for many platforms, this goal remains elusive: complexity, differences between deployments and different architectures make automating root cause challenging.
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Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation

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.

Five Ways Avantra Makes SAP More Secure

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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Did we miss the end of LaMa?

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.