Foreword
by John Appleby, CEO Avantra
I thank the industry leaders featured in this report for their candid insights that reveal key challenges and opportunities around SAP operations modernization. As the interviews make clear, automation and AI driven technologies like AIOps remain largely untapped by organizations running SAP landscapes. This presents substantial potential for enterprises to manage complexity, mitigate risk, and maximize performance.
The need could not be more pressing. With systems transitioning to intricate hybrid cloud architectures, their level of interconnectivity escalates. Digital transformation initiatives are contributing to this by further integrating a multitude of applications and data streams across diverse environments. In these entangled IT ecosystems, the risks climb exponentially for failed changes and inadequately tested migrations. Without automated safeguards and oversight capabilities in place, small configuration errors can cascade into business crippling outages.
By contrast, the Avantra AIOps platform offers the essential resilience needed to balance innovation with pragmatic mitigation of risk. Our automation and observability capabilities optimize legacy SAP environments before undergoing modernization, while also strengthening the health of new hybrid ecosystems post transition. The Avantra platform prevents crises proactively rather than just reactively solving problems after they disrupt operations – a well known German automotive manufacturer saves a minimum of €30k per minute for every production delay which occurred prior to Avantra. This cost saving is combined with hours saved on root cause analysis.
Avantra integrates into the RISE with SAP environment to provide businesses with observability and automation capabilities they wouldn't have with RISE and SAP alone. We noticed a barrier in business transformation where there is limited ability to optimize hybrid operations. And the Avantra platform is a solution to this problem.
Avantra gives businesses with hybrid or full RISE with SAP setups better visibility into both environments. Our customers can monitor and automate operations across on premise and IaaS deployed system landscapes, SaaS products, API endpoints and cloud services. Avantra supports multiple aspects of application monitoring, from performance to security. What’s more, Avantra is officially certified as “Works with RISE with SAP”.
I hope these insights will resonate with those managing SAP environments, highlighting the shared challenges faced by numerous large enterprises. This recognition may ignite meaningful conversations within your organization about addressing these prevalent issues through the strategic implementation of automation solutions.