Tag: SAP applications

Introduction Enterprise applications generate a lot of data. Analyzing this data helps stakeholders make informed decisions. Enterprises use AI/ML for automating business processes, finding patterns at scale, and more. SAP is one of the most extensively used ERP solutions for different industries of varied scales and complexities. SAP systems are often integrated with external systems […]

Introduction Customers running SAP workloads will often exchange data with external sources using protocols such as SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). Examples of types of data exchanged include purchase orders, invoices, inventory lists, bank statements and payroll data which typically contain […]

Introduction To modernize their SAP landscape, many AWS customers are leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services to develop new applications and functionalities in accordance with SAP’s “clean core” approach. This simplifies future upgrades and extensibility, thus allowing them to innovate at a rapid pace using AWS services. To meet business demands faster and […]

Omnichannel strategies have become the norm for organizations across industries. In this environment, businesses often face the challenge of integrating different systems to ensure seamless data flow and near real-time updates. Especially in e-commerce businesses, showing up-to-date inventory of a product that customers want to buy is extremely critical. Lack of access to accurate inventory […]

Introduction Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008 and many of these SAP customers have been developing and enhancing their SAP business process using ABAP for much longer. Many customers’ business processes rely on custom ABAP code, and have teams of ABAP developers in-house or through their partners. However, innovating with AWS […]

Introduction SAP applications support critical business processes and therefore, customers require a comprehensive view of their SAP applications’ health and actionable insights to maintain the highest levels of security, availability, and performance. Since 2019, Amazon Web Services customers have been using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights to monitor applications like Microsoft SQL Server databases and .NET-based […]

ERP systems sit at the heart of many digital transformation initiatives due to their wide-reaching impact on mission critical business processes like financial close, material requirement planning, and inventory movements. These core processes represent the foundation upon which many enterprises build their customer, product, supplier, and employee experiences. Enterprises embarking on ERP modernization journeys often […]

This post was written by Ganesh Suryanarayanan, Krishnakumar Ramadoss, Joseph Rosing and Manoj Muthukrishnan. Introduction Machine learning increasingly enables a lower total cost of quality by detecting defects faster (in some cases predicting them) and augmenting traditional six sigma business process improvements with scalable, low-cost solutions. However, like many industrial machine learning use cases, the […]

Introduction In our first blog, Terraform your SAP Infrastructure on AWS, we began the SAP on AWS DevOps journey by defining the SAP infrastructure as code (IaC) . By doing this, we demonstrated with our Terraform modules here on GitHub and here on the Terraform Registry, by defining SAP as code, infrastructure and servers can quickly be deployed […]

Infrastructure as Code Customers’ SAP systems are critical for business operations, so when architects and administrators plan their deployments and operations there is a focus on following SAP best practices. Moreover, as workload requirements change, teams must iterate and adapt quickly to provision the required infrastructure keeping in mind all the security tenets, performance best […]