Automic Automation for SAP S/4HANA

Presented by Broadcom

I. Introduction to Automic and SAP Partnership

Automic’s 20+ years as a trusted partner to SAP clients
- Delivering powerful automation and orchestration solutions
- Streamlining business processes and driving efficiency
Continued support for SAP Rise and SAP Grow journeys
Automic Automation and Automic SaaS accelerate operational success
- Modernizing SAP environments
- Ensuring business continuity with hybrid (on-premises or cloud) deployments
Kaj Wierda (Product Manager for Automic at Broadcom) clarifies:
- Automation choices are not limited
- Broadcom is deeply invested in SAP Cloud journey success

II. Broadcom’s Commitment to SAP Customers

SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) End of Life (end of 2027)
- Migration to SAP cloud is a top priority for SAP customers
- Rise with SAP and Grow with SAP programs are key
Automic’s automation covers all SAP Cloud Journey options for decades
Support for business-critical SAP processes:
- Order to cash
- Procure to pay
- Supply chain
- Financial transformation
Continuous updates and SAP certification for Automic’s integration to SAP landscape
Investment in SAP ensures success across deployment types:
- On-premises SAP
- SAP real estate moved to cloud
- SAP’s Cloud Native solutions built on SAP Business Technology Platform
Analyst community recognizes Broadcom as a leader for workload automation and orchestration for ERP and other business-critical applications in hybrid/multi-cloud environments

One of the world’s largest SAP implementations
- Digital transformation focused on global SAP environment
- 11 divisions, 50+ countries
Long-standing use of Automic’s automation platform for SAP and wider application landscape
- Gaining visibility and control of entire environment and business processes
Recent divestiture scenario:
- Sold division using Automic’s platform for SAP processes
- Division transitioned to Automic SaaS for business continuity
- SAP workloads moved to a Broadcom hosted and operated environment

End-to-End Observability
- Enables visibility of SAP processing within wider business process context
- Automic’s full SAP observability with automation analytics
  - Visualization of all workloads and their impact on SLAs
  - Tracks execution against critical business deadlines
  - Provides intelligent insights leveraging historical runtime data to detect anomalies (proactive vs. reactive)
  - Dynamic critical path capabilities
Unifying Operational Control
- Eliminates latency between processing
- Ensures customers meet SLAs
- Single automation platform for all SAP and non-SAP workloads
  - Centralized audit and regulatory compliance
  - Built-in end-to-end operational control (cloud-native, ERP, data pipelines)
  - Advanced scheduling and event-based automation
  - Access to a wide catalog of cloud integrations
Integrating and Orchestrating All Systems and Applications
- Simplifies business processing (SAP, wider SAP ecosystem, on-premises, cloud applications)
- Extensive integration capabilities through the Automation Marketplace (free of charge)
  - Extends Automic’s power beyond the SAP ecosystem

Continuously updated and SAP-certified pre-existing SAP agent
Investment in building for SAP Clean Core
- New integration plugins for SAP Business Technology Platform, Integrated Business Planning, etc.
- Leveraging latest SAP APIs
Connects broader enterprise applications and optimizes workflows end-to-end
- Drives efficiency, reduces silos, empowers seamless automation, monitoring, and control
Support for all SAP system deployments:
- On-premises
- Private cloud (Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition)
- Broadcom hosted and operated Automic SaaS

Ability to operate and orchestrate workloads for Rise with SAP or Grow with SAP from current on-premises Automic Solution
Benefits of transitioning from Automic on-premises to Automic SaaS:
- Cost Reductions:
  - Infrastructure and database licensing
  - Significant staffing cost savings (no upgrades, patches, or administrative activities)
- Soft Savings:
  - Access to latest innovation
  - Faster security compliance
  - High availability as standard
  - Dynamically expands to meet peak performance needs
- Focus more time on delivering value, less on running the platform
Simple transition process:
- As easy as applying a new system upgrade
- Can move in one go or phased approach
- Relies on Automic’s tried and tested transport case mechanism
Broadcom’s partner ecosystem available for assistance
Seamless commercial transition:
- Several approaches for adopting Automic SaaS (hybrid or full cloud)
Automic’s integration to SAP ecosystem is fully SAP certified (whether on-premises or SaaS)
Future hosting of SAP agent on Automic SaaS (full stack SAP orchestration capabilities)

Automic and SAP On-Premises:
- Multiple agents deployed on-premises or in the cloud
- Certified SAP agent orchestrates SAP
- OS agent handles file transfer (data in/out of SAP)
SAP Rise with Automic:
- SAP system moves to the cloud (private cloud edition/SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition or public cloud version)
- SAP does not allow third-party software (including Automic agent) in the SAP environment itself
- Automic’s SAP agent continues to work (APIs supported, fully certified for this scenario)
- Choice to deploy SAP agent on-premises or in the cloud
- Same for Automic SaaS
- Alternative options for moving data (since Automic OS agent cannot be in SAP environment):
  - Secure FTP
  - NFS file share mounts
  - Cloud storage (S3 and other leading cloud vendors)
Automic SAP Agent in the Cloud with Automic SaaS:
- Broadcom will provide hosted and managed agent real estate in the near future
- Starting with existing SAP agent, also offering cloud integrations and other agent types for full stack SaaS experience

No matter your SAP cloud journey, Broadcom has you covered.
Broadcom continues to invest in ensuring SAP success.
Automic Automation comes with up-to-date and SAP-certified integrations.
Successful transition of numerous Automic customers to SAP Rise in partnership with SAP.
World’s largest and most complex SAP deployments rely on Automic for orchestrating business-critical SAP processes.
Automic maximizes the value that AI delivers to your business.
- Broadcom’s leadership in AI (chip design, private AI via VMware)
- AI built into Automic solution
- Orchestration of data pipelines (on-premises and cloud data/analytics services like Databricks)
- Ideal partner for SAP’s AI journey