It was Avantra’s predecessor Syslink Xandria 7.2, released back in November 2018, which provided native cloud integration for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Right after this release providing our first step in automation for IaaS, specifically around start-/stop, we heard customers say: “But we have a huge VMware on-premise landscape, don’t forget us.” Needless to say that we certainly know that VMware products have made their way to the cloud since quite some time.

We’ve just released Avantra 21.11.6 and as Product Manager for Avantra, I get the opportunity to showcase some of the awesome new features we’ve managed to fit in this release. For Avantra 21.11.6, we’re continuing to focus on our Automation engine as well as squashing a few bugs and a couple of non-automation related features too.

Integrations to third party ITOM/ITSM solutions have been used by all Avantra customers since the beginning back in 2003. Often this is due to corporate support processes and the customer’s wish that all solutions used to manage the entire IT landscape shall report to one single ITOM/ITSM solution. This is where activities of different departments are coordinated.

Have you ever wondered what all the fuss is about SAP and its audit process? We'll take a look at the SAP audit process and explain what happens when auditors check your SAP system.

As a revolutionary column-based in-memory database, SAP HANA has been praised as one of the most notable technology innovations in many years. Organizations entirely new to SAP can implement and benefit from using its comprehensive ERP solution SAP S/4 HANA almost right away – immediately gaining a boost thanks to rapid scalability, consistent efficiency and airtight security.

SAP maintenance planning is a helpful way to keep track of scheduled maintenance activities in your SAP environment. If you’re in the process of updating or planning for the upcoming year, it can be helpful to determine when your SAP systems will be down for maintenance. In this post, we’ll explore how you can use your maintenance planners to stay on top of your SAP maintenance requirements.

SAP on premise to AWS cloud migration is a key focus area for many businesses. This is no surprise given that SAP is without a doubt among the leading ERPs. SAP HANA, available both on premise and in the cloud, offers a powerful relational database ideal for data storage, retrieval and analytics in real time. The on premise iteration of SAP HANA features an SAP environment hosted on your servers.

In this article, we look at the core concepts of SAP digital transformation, its role in enhanced decision making, and how hyperautomation could be the secret to creating a competitive advantage for your organization. Once seen as a costly legacy system for many organizations, SAP is no longer the ‘unwieldly’ application it once was.

With the release of Avantra 21.11.4, we’ve introduced a new step library feature to allow our Avantra Professional Edition customers to build complex and reusable automations faster. I think the best way to describe the benefits of a step is to create a simple implementation to guide you through the process. The step library allows users to create individual steps outside of a workflow that behave just as the standard, pre delivered steps do when creating a workflow.

As Product Manager for Avantra it gives me great pleasure to announce that we’ve just released our newest version of Avantra, 21.11.5, packed full of features, fixes and security updates. For Avantra 21.11.5, we’ve especially been focusing on our automation engine and working with a number of our customers to incorporate their feedback and requirements into how Avantra works. Let’s dive into a few of the newest features that are the most exciting.