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What skydiving taught me about automation

Back in the day, before I was a father, before I was a husband, back when I was more of an adrenaline ‘junkie’, one of my ongoing adventures was skydiving. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a hobby as I never followed through with a certification, but I took my fair share of jumps. When I first started I would go with either a ‘static line’, where a cord hanging from the plane would pull my chute, or go on what is called ‘tandem’.

What a near motorcycle accident taught me about ServiceNow's CMDB

Back in my mid to late 20s, my most prized possession was my Yamaha R1 motorcycle. Living and working in the city of Milwaukee meant I didn’t need to worry about finding parking, gas was cheap, and it was fast, one of the fastest sport bikes on the market at the time. But with that speed and power comes great responsibility, and I took that responsibility seriously. If I was going to go out and meet friends, I promised myself, not one sip of alcohol.

3M achieves growth, performance and reliability with AppDynamics

As one of the biggest SAP shops in the world, identifying the root cause of system performance issues impacting business operations is critical to 3M. The conglomerate needed a monitoring system that could pinpoint the problems to allow for faster resolution. By deploying AppDynamics, 3M discovered they could address risk areas in their SAP production environments and adopt it as a daily monitoring tool across non-SAP applications.

SAP system refresh automation

SAP system refresh automation is extremely powerful when leveraged with care; system refreshes are complex and challenging processes to manage. System refreshes can be fraught with risk for organizations with critical data due to their level of complexity. Mitigating this risk comes down to knowing the benefits of automation and how the processes work. This article will help you: To try out Avantra's SAP automation features, sign up for a free trial.

Using hyperautomation to help SAP customers grow their business - Avantra and Managecore

Hyperautomation is the business philosophy that the modern enterprise is using to rapidly automate SAP tasks and provide value back to the customer. A term coined by Gartner in 2019, hyperautomation and its rise are said to be indicative of how much RPA benefits businesses. In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris welcomes John Appleby, CEO at Avantra, and Nick Miletich, CTO at ManageCore, to discuss.

It's all about the preparation - Automated preparation!

Recently I joined a team to run a ‘Ragnar’. A ‘Ragnar’ is a running race where you and an additional seven teammates run a course that typically lasts around 24 hours non stop. Our team joined over 300 other teams running this Ragnar trail course in the middle of the woods in northern Wisconsin. This course consisted of three loops, a 3 mile loop, a six mile loop and a seven mile loop.