Creating an Automation Fabric with SAP BTP with Redwood’s RunMyJobs

As enterprises expand, their IT environments becomes more complex, needing advanced workload automation (WLA) to handle complex job scheduling, data management, analytics, application development, and artificial intelligence, which autonomously manage these tasks, ensuring uninterrupted performance of critical business functions.

Technology platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) play a crucial role in optimizing operations by offering technologies and microservices that integrate and enhance SAP solutions while maintaining a streamlined core system. Combining SAP BTP with robust workload automation (WLA) solutions can help companies manage unique automation challenges, optimize sequential workflows, ensure reliable data orchestration, scale processes, and maintain comprehensive visibility. This can create an integrated framework that enhances digital innovations in SAP BTP through improved integrations, customizations, and data management.

Companies transitioning to the cloud with the RISE with SAP program and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) can accelerate their time to value by opting for an automation tool that seamlessly integrates with SAP BTP, such as RunMyJobs by Redwood. RunMyJobs by Redwood provides out-of-the-box SAP BTP integration and connectors, ensuring autonomous communication across SAP and non-SAP systems, sequential task chain scheduling, secure data quality, efficient data management, continuous information flow to SAP AI models, and comprehensive orchestration and monitoring of complex processes. Like a skilled city planner foresees growth, leveraging dynamic automation can enhance your SAP BTP environment.

Case in Point: Migrating to SAP S/4HANA with 100% Continuous Operations

A leading American manufacturer wanted to move from their legacy on-premise setup, which included SAP ERP, SAP APO, and SAP BW, to a hybrid environment featuring SAP S/4HANA in a private cloud. This new setup incorporated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions like BTP Integration Suite, SAP IBP, and Synapse. However, the main challenge was to ensure a seamless transformation while maintaining uninterrupted operations for crucial processes such as plan-to-produce, order-to-cash, data management, and reporting. Additionally, transitioning their IT incident management to ServiceNow was a key component.

The manufacturing company partnered with Redwood to develop an agile migration approach divided into sprints which ensured a structured and efficient migration process, allowing the team to tackle various challenges in a phased manner. Redwood’s RunMyJobs allowed the company to connect the entire customer application landscape across on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud solutions using out-of-the-box connectors. The company also converted existing ECC processes like-for-like and re-implemented SAP S/4HANA, BTP, and IBP processes smoothly.

Migration Process and Outcomes:

1. Collaboration with Redwood: The company worked closely with Redwood to devise an agile migration approach segmented into sprints.
2. Phased Job Migration: Jobs were migrated from least complex to most complex to allow teams to gain confidence and platform proficiency before tackling the most intricate processes.
3. Continuous Operations: Ensured that all critical operations remained uninterrupted throughout the migration phases.
4. Clean Core Maintenance:
   • Integration of S/4HANA, IBP, ECC, BW, Synapse, BOBJ, and ServiceNow using out-of-the-box connectors.
   • Configuration of automated end-to-end processes like plan-to-produce without custom development.
   • Optimization of integrated incident management, removing existing workarounds.

This strategic migration not only enhanced the manufacturing company’s operational efficiency but also positioned the company to leverage modern cloud-based solutions for improved scalability and innovation. The seamless transition underscores the effectiveness of SAP’s RISE program in facilitating digital transformations for large enterprises.