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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 26 Overview: AI-powered SAP operations across your entire hybrid estate.

Avantra 26 brings AI root cause analysis, SAP Cloud ALM integration, expanded BTP visibility, and next gen automation together in one platform. Avantra AIR investigates incidents the moment they're detected and surfaces a structured diagnosis with next steps, cutting resolution times by 60% and turning hours of expert triage into seconds. As an SAP Cloud ALM Silver Partner, Avantra delivers production-ready, two-way synchronisation of systems and alerts across multiple Cloud ALM tenants.

AI Found 18 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities. Now Your Team Has to Patch Them.

On June 9, 2026, the OpenSSL project released patches covering 18 vulnerabilities across its supported releases. The headline flaw, CVE-2026-45447, is rated high severity and has the potential for remote code execution. Not too long ago, a security advisory with 18 vulnerabilities would have been routine. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday provided a predictable cycle, and organizations operated with the expectation of a meaningful remediation window. That model is under pressure.

Context is King #5 - Building Safe AI Agents

As AI agents gain more autonomy, safety can't be an afterthought. In this talk from Context is King in London, Jonatan von Martens (AI Safety Engineer at ElevenLabs) shares what it actually takes to build agents that behave reliably in production. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Context is King #5 - A Semantic Layer for the Agentic Era

Agents are only as good as the queries they can run. In this talk from Context is King in London, Egor Kraev (Co-Founder & CTO of Motley) breaks down how a well-designed semantic layer becomes the connective tissue between natural language intent and reliable data retrieval. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Context is King #5 - Ontologies as Executable Context for AI Agents

Can a knowledge graph do more than store facts — can it actually run your agent? In this talk from Context is King in London, Teodoro Baldazzi (Principal AI Engineer at Prometheux) makes the case for ontologies as executable context: structured knowledge that doesn't just inform AI agents, but actively shapes how they reason and act. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Why Your Agentic Workflow Succeeds and Still Gets It Wrong

Agentic workflows are reshaping how engineering teams operate, fetching context, synthesizing decisions, and shipping results across systems without human intervention. But the same design that makes them powerful adds risk in production. Agents do not crash when they hit bad data; they synthesize around it, substituting a stale value, an empty page, or a missing field for the result they were supposed to capture.

Shipped: You're emitting AI telemetry. Point it at an engine that turns it into allocated spend.

Your AI calls already emit OpenTelemetry: your LLM gateway exports it, and it’s the open standard your own services can speak. But you don’t have anywhere to turn those spans into spend you can allocate to an outcome. Now you can. CloudZero exposes an OpenTelemetry endpoint that doesn’t care what’s on the other end.