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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.
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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Future-Proofing and Scaling Workload Automation with RunMyJobs by Redwood SoftwareJan 22, 2024 — Organizations need to ensure their automation initiatives enable innovation and adaptability to evolving business needs. However, while identifying optimal starting points and potential areas for expansion is key, integrating tools across both on-premise and cloud-based systems is essential. Equally important is reducing adoption barriers for both IT teams and business users to facilitate a smooth and effective digital transition. Redwood Software offers a comprehensive range of IT solutions, focusing on workload automation and file transfer to provide complete business process automation end-to-end. Workload automation offerings include three products: Tidal, ActiveBatch and their flagship enterprise solution, RunMyJobs. RunMyJobs is a full stack enterprise job scheduler and batch processor that automates mission-critical processes in complex computing environments for your SAP and non-SAP tech stack.
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SAP Landscape and Efficiency OperationsDec 5, 2023 — Click Here to View Session Deck. Infrastructure and Application Automation is a key skill and technology set every IT professional needs. SAP applications can be demanding to manage and thus helpful to automate. This session will show how to harness the power of SAP Landscape Management and SAP Cloud Appliance Library to develop extensive automation […]
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Business Automation Challenges and SolutionsNov 7, 2023 — Businesses today are struggling to keep moving in the right direction. Infrastructure and environments are changing more rapidly than ever, and there is an increased need to bring data together across the organization to provide a better understanding of the business. Organizations need more connected applications, more efficient processes, and more specialized skill sets if they are to effectively manage this all. It is also becoming increasingly important to operationalize artificial intelligence in IT environments. This will allow AIOps platforms to learn patterns from monitoring to better comprehend IT asset relationships, define applications, predict events, and automate resolutions.
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Case Study: How Stonebranch’s Universal Automation Center Drives BusinessNov 15, 2023 — In this article, we are taking a look at the Universal Automation Center from IT orchestration and automation solutions provider Stonebranch. They were able to help a client replace its burdensome legacy workload automation system with a modern, scalable and secure automation solution.
The client struggled with an outdated platform with an outdated licensing scheme and a cumbersome client. It needed better self-service capabilities to deliver value, yet the prospect of updating its software seemed time-intensive and costly at the outset. We will explore how Stonebranch was able to deliver business value through automation throughout the organization without disrupting workflows.
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Business Automation Challenges and SolutionsOct 19, 2023 — Businesses today are struggling to keep moving in the right direction. Infrastructure and environments are changing more rapidly than ever, and there is an increased need to bring data together across the organization to provide a better understanding of the business. Organizations need more connected applications, more efficient processes, and more specialized skill sets if they are to effectively manage this all. It is also becoming increasingly important to operationalize artificial intelligence in IT environments. This will allow AIOps platforms to learn patterns from monitoring to better comprehend IT asset relationships, define applications, predict events, and automate resolutions.
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Webinar: IT Automation for Enterprise SAPAug 31, 2023 — The goal of IT automation is to create an environment that contains a clean landscape, is running smoothly, and is easy to patch. While simple in concept, this is much more difficult to achieve in practice. IT automation offers many benefits as it reduces errors and enhances efficiency by automating manual and repetitive tasks, and increases regulatory compliance and security as system patching and monitoring get automated. However, IT automation projects may have a significant up-front cost and require a robust technology platform to support desired automation capabilities. Despite this, the move to cloud-based environments has made it possible for SAP customers to implement and leverage IT automation within their enterprise SAP environments.
The survey asked the respondents to about how far they had reached with implementing IT automation for their SAP systems and environments, and in which areas they were utilizing automation. They were most likely to be leveraged in operations, maintenance, and testing, though more organizations planned to implement automation in the areas of patching and testing. Respondents were concerned about skill gaps and integrating automation solutions with existing systems, but expected to optimize costs and resources, reduce errors, and enhance reliability and quality.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 137 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Explore the factors that are influencing the need for IT automation for enterprise SAP systems
- Learn how far organizations have reached with implementing IT automation
- Understand the most important features for IT automation
- See the areas in which organizations are utilizing IT automation for SAP
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IT Automation for Enterprise SAPJun 30, 2023 — The goal of IT automation is to create an environment that contains a clean landscape, is running smoothly, and is easy to patch. While simple in concept, this is much more difficult to achieve in practice. IT automation offers many benefits as it reduces errors and enhances efficiency by automating manual and repetitive tasks, and increases regulatory compliance and security as system patching and monitoring get automated. However, IT automation projects may have a significant up-front cost and require a robust technology platform to support desired automation capabilities. Despite this, the move to cloud-based environments has made it possible for SAP customers to implement and leverage IT automation within their enterprise SAP environments.
The survey asked the respondents to about how far they had reached with implementing IT automation for their SAP systems and environments, and in which areas they were utilizing automation. They were most likely to be leveraged in operations, maintenance, and testing, though more organizations planned to implement automation in the areas of patching and testing. Respondents were concerned about skill gaps and integrating automation solutions with existing systems, but expected to optimize costs and resources, reduce errors, and enhance reliability and quality.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 137 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Explore the factors that are influencing the need for IT automation for enterprise SAP systems
- Learn how far organizations have reached with implementing IT automation
- Understand the most important features for IT automation
- See the areas in which organizations are utilizing IT automation for SAP
1 minute read