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What Is IT Automation?
IT automation is the use of software to create repeatable instructions and processes to replace or reduce human interaction with IT systems. Modern IT environments need to be able to scale faster than ever, and IT automation is vital to making that happen.
IT automation is a powerful tool that can provide significant cost savings and allow IT staff to focus on strategic rather than administrative work. A range of data center and cloud operations can be automated, resulting in faster operations. A fully automated environment can reduce the time-to-delivery for production-ready resources from weeks to less than a day.
What Is IT Automation?
IT automation is the use of software to create repeatable instructions and processes to replace or reduce human interaction with IT systems. Modern IT environments need to be able to scale faster than ever, and IT automation is vital to making that happen.
IT automation is a powerful tool that can provide significant cost savings and allow IT staff to focus on strategic rather than administrative work. A range of data center and cloud operations can be automated, resulting in faster operations. A fully automated environment can reduce the time-to-delivery for production-ready resources from weeks to less than a day.
What Is SAP IT Automation?
SAP IT automation refers to automating manual, repetitive IT processes within the SAP ecosystem of products. SAP has several IT automation products and services, including:
SAP Process Automation — an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, no-code solution for workflow management. The process automation solution offers prebuilt capabilities, templates, and content designed specifically to work with SAP solutions. It relies on integration and automation content from SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and offers native integration with SAP application stack solutions.
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation — a solution that automates repetitive manual processes by creating, scheduling, managing, and monitoring intelligent bots. It can redirect resources to high-value activities and processes. Using the solution, SAP customers can create attended bots, which are suitable for actively managing the bots or if the process requires intermittent decision-making, or unattended, which automatically execute a complete process using triggers without human intervention.
SAP Automation Pilot — a service that provides operations experts with predefined content and no-code ability to automate their manual operations to work on top of SAP BTP. The service enables developers to automate repetitive DevOps tasks without coding.
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New Automation Needed for Modern IT Environments. This article examines the increasing diversity of the IT landscape and the need to use automation to unite diverse systems. “Automation is the glue that keeps this landscape operating effectively. It doesn’t matter what your landscape looks like; it needs to be glued together,” says Devin Gharibian-Saki, Chief Solutions Officer at Redwood Software.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with IT automation include: Blackline, Conexiom, Panaya, Red Hat, Rev-Trac, Serrala, smartShift, Stonebranch, Tech Mahindra, Trintech, Worksoft, and Xsuite.
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Case Study: Bottlers Network Partners with Baer to Staff SAP ImplementationMay 21, 2025 — This IT services company has its roots in a large, American specialty beverage manufacturer with international distribution. In 2016, the IT services company divested from the parent company, and now operates as an independent entity serving as a strategic partner to the parent company’s North American bottler network. The IT services company provides a comprehensive […]
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Aligning Internal and External Workflows with a Single MFT SolutionDec 17, 2024 — With the increasing pace of digital transformation, organizations require faster and more reliable workload automation solutions like Redwood Software's RunMyJobs and JSCAPE, which enhance operational efficiency, accuracy, and data security while streamlining both internal processes and secure B2B file transfers.
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Out-of-the-box Job Scheduling Solution for SAP BTPNov 19, 2024 — SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) facilitates innovation and application development for SAP customers and can be supplemented by Redwood’s RunMyJobs, an SAP-certified SaaS solution that enhances scheduling capabilities, supports automation across both SAP and non-SAP systems, and ensures seamless integration with various SAP tools.
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Brewhouse Riegele Continuous Operation and IT Automation for a Modern BrewerySep 27, 2024 — With Libelle DataMasking you can anonymize personal and sensitive data and work with it sensibly - whether in SAP or other environments. Your non-production systems are filled with realistic-looking and GDPR-compliant data.
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And Boomi! You’re integrated: Composing an SAP partnershipAug 22, 2024 — Ed Macosky, chief product and technology officer at Boomi, talks SAP partnerships, the iPaaS offering, and why composability is here to stay. SAP users are making friends elsewhere. With SAP users very, very rarely able to stick to that one specific software ecosystem entirely, they bring in hyperscalers like AWS or Google Cloud, Azure or […]
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Redwood’s RunMyJobs Powers SAP S/4HANA InvestmentJun 25, 2024 — RISE with SAP is a comprehensive solution designed to help customers transition from legacy ERP systems to the advanced SAP S/4HANA cloud ERP. It addresses key challenges and provides a holistic approach, incorporating Cloud ERP SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and other cloud services. A core aspect of this transition is maintaining a "Clean Core," minimizing customization to enhance efficiency. Redwood Software’s RunMyJobs (RMJ) supports this by offering out-of-the-box connectors, pre-built automation templates, and advanced capabilities without custom code. RMJ's modern SaaS architecture ensures fully automated processes, supporting digital transformation and enhancing operational efficiency. For example, Kaeser Compressors successfully transitioned to RMJ from SAP BPA, optimizing critical business processes and reducing administrative efforts. As a trusted partner since 2004, RMJ provides seamless integration with SAP solutions, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
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Why is SAP reporting and monitoring important?May 30, 2024 — Increasingly complex IT landscapes present companies with numerous challenges. In recent times, they increasingly need to be monitored and observed. Descriptive ash boards and rapid error detection, as well as the automation of error adjustment, are important tools for maintaining a clear and structured overall view.
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Accelerated Automation with Redwood’s Workload Automation SuiteMay 21, 2024 — The post-pandemic shift towards digital transformation and increased cloud adoption has made traditional job scheduling tools insufficient for modern IT and business demands, highlighting the need for innovative and flexible workload automation tools.
Redwood Software provides a range of IT solutions with a focus on workload automation and file transfer, aimed at enabling complete business process automation. Utilizing AI, Redwood simplifies usage and improves process flows, which enhances efficiency and reduces production planning cycle times. Their suite includes Tidal, ActiveBatch, and the flagship solution, RunMyJobs.
RunMyJobs, designed as a powerful enterprise job scheduler and batch processor, automates essential tasks in complex computing environments. It supports both SAP and non-SAP technologies and integrates AI in its orchestration layer to improve data management and ensure continuous operations. This AI integration allows for the use of advanced tools like chatbots and text analysis from providers such as AWS, increasing the value delivered to customers. Its automation capabilities are essential for managing data flows and maintaining the consistency and reliability needed for optimal AI performance, empowering organizations to adapt to new challenges.
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Using Automation to Address ChangeMar 15, 2024 — Today’s infrastructure and environments are changing more rapidly than ever. Cloud infrastructure and cloud-based solutions are becoming part of enterprise landscapes, while at the same time there is a critical need to bring together data from across the enterprise to provide a greater depth of understanding of the business. But as organizations start to use these new landscapes, they often struggle with the rate of change that they are expected to achieve. An inability to keep pace with change can then impact how quickly organizations can comply with changing needs and requirements.
Change is accelerating for SAP customers. After years of running environments that have had minimal adjustments, landscapes, infrastructure, and the solutions that are running on them are shifting rapidly. Many organizations are struggling to keep up with this change, and are looking for ways in which they can better manage this change, reduce costs, and streamline the management of their environments.
o The pace of change will continue to increase, so organizations must be prepared to manage these infrastructure and environmental shifts.
o In addition to changing, environments are also more likely to become more complex. With the mixture of cloud and on-premise environments that will exist while enterprise solutions move to the cloud, it is important to be agile enough to react as necessary.
o Implementing an automation platform will provide the ability to streamline manual, repetitive administrative tasks and scale the ability to patch, remediate, and release new systems and infrastructure.
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