Optimized SAP Workflows and Infrastructure: Modernizing IT for Resilience, Compliance, and Efficiency

Modernizing IT strategy is crucial for organizations to ensure resilience, scalability, and efficiency in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. High availability minimizes downtime, while flexible infrastructures enable agility and seamless scalability. Advanced technology platforms enhance data traceability, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, while automation streamlines operations, reducing errors and costs. Strengthened cybersecurity frameworks mitigate risks, protecting sensitive data and business functions. Additionally, modern IT systems facilitate seamless integration with ecosystem partners, fostering collaboration and innovation. By adopting cutting-edge infrastructures, organizations can drive operational excellence, maintain competitiveness, and future-proof their business.

Case in Point

Snam, a leading energy infrastructure operator, needed to support its expansion into new energy sectors like hydrogen and biomethane while maintaining operational excellence, which required a robust IT strategy to manage its complex business network. With mission-critical operations dependent on seamless data movement and workflow efficiency, the company sought a modernized, flexible infrastructure that could enhance high availability, agility, traceability, and auditability.

To achieve this transformation, Snam consolidated all its workload automation tools into BMC Software’s Control-M, supported by BMC partner Beta 80 Group. This migration streamlined the orchestration of application and data workflows, ensuring 24×7 business service availability while meeting strict regulatory requirements. The phased transition from Redwood workflows, including SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, allowed for detailed analysis and optimization, leading to a 25% reduction in unnecessary jobs before migration, improving efficiency and reliability.

By integrating Control-M with its IT service management (ITSM) platform, Snam automated workflow tracking, significantly accelerating internal audits and compliance checks. Control-M now provides a centralized orchestration platform spanning on-premises and cloud environmZents, covering databases, file transfers, SAP solutions, OpenShift, Azure services, and container models. Additionally, Control-M’s managed file transfer capabilities enhanced security and encryption while replacing a custom-built solution for better efficiency.

The migration to Control-M has delivered substantial business results, including a 20% faster time-to-market, a 40% reduction in workflow errors, improved workflow management, and enhanced auditability and compliance. Looking ahead, as Snam expands through mergers and acquisitions, it aims to further refine workflow performance by reengineering and relocating existing jobs, ensuring continued operational efficiency and scalability.

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What this means for SAPinsiders

Achieve End-to-End SAP Workflow Automation: Managing SAP ECC and S/4HANA workloads can be challenging, often involving manual processes that slow operations and increase the risk of errors. BMC’s Control-M simplifies this complexity by automating and orchestrating SAP workflows, ensuring smooth, error-free execution of business-critical processes. By reducing manual interventions, it minimizes errors, boosts operational efficiency, and enhances system reliability. For SAP customers, Control-M is essential to streamline workload automation, improve performance, and eliminate inefficiencies in SAP-driven operations.

Ensure Compliance and Governance with ITSM-Integrated Workflow Management: Regulatory compliance and auditability are key challenges for SAP customers, particularly in industries with strict governance requirements. BMC’s Control-M integrates with IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms, enabling automated tracking, real-time reporting, and streamlined audit and compliance checks. Organizations using BMC solutions gain greater visibility and control over their SAP job workflows, reducing risks and meeting compliance requirements with ease.

Enable Scalable, Secure, and Hybrid SAP Environments: As SAP customers transition to hybrid and cloud environments, they need a centralized orchestration platform that ensures secure, scalable, and efficient data movement. BMC’s Control-M supports both on-premises and cloud-based SAP workloads, integrating databases, file transfers, SAP applications, OpenShift, Azure services, and more. By adopting BMC’s solution, businesses can future-proof their SAP infrastructure, improve agility, and accelerate time-to-market while maintaining high availability and security.