Securing your SAP environments is critical to the operational success of your business. And SAP does a great job of trying to stay ahead of any vulnerabilities in their solutions by offering HotNews. As critical vulnerabilities are discovered, SAP weights their critical quality, declaring a level of severity and attributing a score - 10 being the most critical - along with a description and resolution of the patch.
As Product Manager for Avantra it gives me great pleasure to announce that our newest version, Avantra 21.11.4 is now available, packed full of new features and a few enhancements our customers have been asking for. Let’s dive into a few of the newest features that are the most exciting. As always, our release notes are publicly available here.
At Avantra, we always comment that the customers who need us most are too busy to meet with us. It is so common that SAP operations professionals turn up to meetings late, reschedule at short notice, or are not really present - instead, working on their laptop to solve problems. What is curious is that this is normalized, and has been going on for decades without change. How can this be? Let’s dive into this.
Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are impenetrable. Third party cybersecurity solutions are often used as well to make sure these environments are safe and secure.
New ICMAD bugs require immediate attention and patching for SAP systems. The dust has not yet settled on the CVSSv3 10.0 score Log4j security vulnerability, which has been keeping IT employees across all businesses very busy since December 2021. Read this article to learn more about the CVSSv3 10.0 score Log4j security vulnerability.
As IT operations leaders, it’s intuitive and natural to desire fewer software products to manage an IT estate. That extends to standardizing all the operational processes to deliver significant benefits for the business.
SAP delivers a suite of solutions for managing business operations, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management. Many of these solutions, including SAP S/4HANA, run on top of the SAP NetWeaver application development and integration platform. Enterprises and SAP managed providers often operate hundreds or even thousands of SAP NetWeaver systems, and Agentil provides a centralized, low-overhead way to monitor their entire fleet.
Gartner reported that unplanned IT system downtime cost: $5,600 per minute. $300,000 per hour. IDC, on the other hand, estimates that system outages can cost a company between $500,000 to $1 million or more per hour. (“DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified”) With more than 345,000 customers in more than 180 countries and 15,000 partnering companies globally, SAP is the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer.
