SAP IT Automation
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.
Additional Resources for SAPinsiders
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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How Automation is Overhauling Accounts Payable
SAP organizations are always searching for improved options to bolster the efficiency of their financial operations. Many top companies are implementing AI (artificial intelligence) and automation technologies to streamline important workflows, enhance accuracy, and improve planning. While automation and AI hold promise in nearly every area of finance, some areas have shown greater adoption than…
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The State of Automation in the Financial Close Process
A preliminary SAPinsider study highlights the urgent need for companies to automate financial close processes due to inefficiencies caused by disparate systems, with over half of financial teams planning further automation, while the current average closing time remains at eight days.
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How to Apply Campaign Automation to Third-Party Marketing Service Providers
Discover how to facilitate a simple automated campaign for campaign enrollment. In this example, a sample third-party marketing company handles email delivery and response handling. Key Concept Companies can use the SAP CRM campaign automation tool to take advantage of automated marketing campaigns while still having the flexibility to outsource key components of the process....…
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Extend the Table Introspector Utility Class to Support Long Text Data
David Duncombe shows how to use an extended table introspector utility class to dynamically generate a formatted representation of internal tables at run time, with added support for output to a Microsoft Excel workbook. This offers a more natural way to format long text data. Key Concept The iXML library is an API that offers...…
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Properly Manage Your GRC Initiatives with Standardization, Optimization, and Automation
Effective controls ensure that a company complies with regulatory requirements, but they should also be cost effective. Standardization, optimization, and automation can improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of compliance. Key Concept CFOs frown on the idea of reducing the number of controls in a process. However, having many controls does not necessarily yield all the...…
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Automate and Streamline Your SAP Payroll Process
The payroll process comprises multiple steps involving configuration and integration. How can you get the most ROI from your SAP solutions? How can you make processes less manual? What SAP ERP functionality is available to you that you have not yet utilized, such as Payroll Control Center? HR 2017 speaker Mike Timm answered reader questions...…
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Towards Zero Downtime for SAP HANA
In this Q&A, technical architects Peter Schinagl and Markus Gürtler of SUSE answered questions on best practices for ensuring high availability and preparing disaster recovery scenarios. In the digital age, downtime is not an option. You are under pressure to supply more up-time in the data center to stay competitive and meet customer demands. Your...…
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Event Blog: Finance and Automation
These resources are brought to you by SAPinsider’s Finance & Automation virtual summit. Join us for live sessions, discussions, and interactive roundtables on July 14th, beginning at 10 AM EST. Click here for more details. Articles: Automating Closing Processes at The Comfort Group Author: Matt Gillespie, SAPinsider The Strategic Role of Finance In Today’s Business…
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Video: Impact20: Closed-Loop Automation: Different by Design
Today’s enterprise landscape is a labyrinth of complex, disparate, and distributed assets, all contributing to the execution of mission-critical business processes. As organizations increasingly depend on these systems for delivery, digital transformation is no longer aspirational, it’s reality. With this new reality comes a heightened need to maximize cost and resource efficiencies, optimizing processes to…
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How to Develop and Implement an Automation Strategy
To help SAP customers navigate their automation journey, SAPinsider recently held an Executive Roundtable with Brenton O’Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra, and Robert MacDonald, Innovation and Technology Manager at Absoft. In this roundtable, O’Callaghan and MacDonald share their experiences implementing automation and developing a robust automation strategy. Watch this roundtable and learn: – How…
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