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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Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process Automation
Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. And recently we have seen an increased focus on supply chain process automation. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now…
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Maximizing Business Impact with SAP and End-to-End Enterprise Automation
Organizations need a tailored automation framework that aligns with their industry and SAP solutions, focusing on clean integration, minimizing operational effort, engaging both tech and business users, utilizing scalable platforms, and partnering with a strategic automation provider to drive efficiency and adapt to evolving business needs.
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Applying Agentic AI in Finance and Accounting
Tungsten Automation is leveraging AI across its solutions—particularly in finance and accounting—to streamline business processes with advanced features like AI agents, enhancing efficiency and adaptability beyond traditional automation.
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Warehouse Manager’s Playbook for Automation Success
The Warehouse Manager’s Playbook presents a strategic roadmap for assessing, selecting, deploying, and optimizing automation in warehouses, emphasizing the importance of readiness evaluation, careful solution choice, change management, real-time KPI tracking, and scalable future planning to enhance operational efficiency and ROI.
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Invoice Processing Automation Global Transformation at NVIDIA
Determined to modernize its finance system, NVIDIA partnered with SAP, OpenText, and Auritas to automate and streamline its invoice processing. Within 9 months, NVIDIA successfully implemented a global standardization of its indirect invoice processes, achieving over 51% touchless automation in the process.
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Understanding Your SAP System Architecture Before Migrating to the Cloud
Before migrating your existing SAP systems to the cloud—an initiative that many businesses are undertaking to remain relevant and redefine their IT landscape—it’s important that SAP customers understand their system architecture. Knowing where the connection points are between different pieces of architecture, where you’re putting them from an infrastructure perspective, and what sort of information…
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Serrala Secures Majority Investment from Hg
By Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider Global B2B financial automation software company, Serrala recently announced a majority investment from global software and services company, Hg. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, as the transaction between the two, private German-based companies has yet to close. Serrala CEO Sven Lindemann and private equity backer, Waterland, will remain as large minority shareholders in the…
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Managing Your Automation Processes with Automation Fabric
For SAP users, navigating the landscape of SAP systems poses a multitude of challenges. From the complexity of managing diverse modules to the burden of manual and repetitive tasks, SAP users often find themselves with operational inefficiencies that impede productivity and innovation. The siloed nature of SAP environments further exacerbates these challenges, hindering the seamless…
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SAP EWM Integration of Automation Capabilities
Whether you have a greenfield, brownfield, or bluefield project ahead of you, warehouse automation continues to increase in importance. There are two different automation approaches that can be taken in warehousing, namely hardware- and software-based approaches.
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IT Operation Transformations Do Not Have to Be Complicated, and They Will Save You Money
Learn how SAP customers can minimize the manual effort involved in running and maintaining SAP environments by using intelligent technologies to automate repetitive tasks, eliminate human error, and improve the quality and availability of systems and business outcomes. CEO of Avantra, John Appleby, shares his insights on the paradigm shift that has occurred in much…
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