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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


III. Customer Success Story: Global SAP Implementation


  • 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


IV. How Automic Improves SAP Automation


  • 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


V. Automic's Continued Investment in 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


VI. Transitioning to 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)


VII. Automic and SAP Deployment Scenarios


  • 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


VIII. Summary and Key Takeaways


  • 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


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