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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Process Automation in Transportation
Transportation features as one of the top focus areas for process automation within the supply chain function according to SAPinsider's September 2022 research Process Automation in Supply Chain. It is the primary sub-function that ensures the movement of goods from source to destination in supply chains. Order-to-deliver was noted as one of the top process…
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Process Productivity and Efficiency Through Process Automation and Process Intelligence
Process automation technologies have evolved into strategic solutions in the last few years. Process visibility and employee productivity are increasingly becoming key objectives for deploying process automation solutions in contrast to the earlier focus on cost reduction. SAPinsider has been publishing process automation benchmark research reports since 2020 to understand the perspectives of the community…
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Transforming Procurement Through Process Automation
Process automation has evolved into a strategic solution and is being leveraged across functions to generate efficiencies and build unique capabilities. Supply chain processes present ample opportunities to leverage this strategic tool and procurement-related processes are among the top ones in terms of focus area. Readers of this article will learn: • What are some…
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VSP Global Realizes Its Vision for High-Speed Business Process Testing
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Accelerate Automation In SAP Workflow Management
SAP Workflow Management, including live process content packages, can help simplify and accelerate your automation journey. Live process content packages contain references to digital workflows, decisions, process visibility scenarios, user interfaces, and cloud application programming model modules. In this article, experts from SAP share an example of the steps a business process expert would take…
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SAP Announces Strong Q1 and Cloud ERP Private Launch
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mySAP CRM Analytics Harnesses SAP NetWeaver BI Analytical Capabilities
mySAP CRM Analytics, a group of tools offered with mySAP CRM and SAP NetWeaver BI, can help you optimize your company’s customer data. Learn about the mySAP CRM extraction mechanism and delivered analysis tools you can use with your data. Then, explore the standard tool sets available, including customer analytics, product analytics, sales and service...…
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Materials case study on SAPinsider
Applied Materials, which is currently completing a company-wide initiative to consolidate on one instance of SAP ERP, is seeing more requests for customizations coming into IT as more business users are rolling onto the new platform – and consequently, testing and change management issues are also increasing – so company’s Test Support Office (TSO) has…
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IT Automation for Enterprise SAP
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…
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Webinar: IT Automation for Enterprise SAP
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…
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