On the path to zero downtime. How discovering and optimizing your SAP environment can reduce production interruptions by up to 70%

As changing customer demands drive a move to real-time business models, customizable production lines and digitally enabled products, services, and experiences, the big question on every manufacturer’s mind is: ‘how do I spot and fix issues before they become a problem?’.

Tricky, not least because SAP and all interrelated business-critical processes and applications are incredibly complex and often managed in siloes across different departments, buildings, or even geographies.

As way of an example, let’s explore the challenges facing one of our customers, a global manufacturer, and the best practice approach for solving them.

Challenge 1: Their traditional monitoring tools didn’t go far enough to monitoring and managing their end-to-end business processes.

For example, SAP Solution Manager could only monitor their SAP ABAP platform, creating blind spots for any interrelated applications.

The solution: Moving to a comprehensive, full stack monitoring system providing end-to-end visibility of SAP app performance.

Challenge 2: Their manual monitoring approach was expensive, inefficient, and reactive.

They had no way to spot issues before production was impacted, even with staff monitoring 24/7.

The solution: Shifting from reactive to proactive monitoring using dynamic baselines of key metrics to enable swift action to reduce production interruptions.

Challenge 3: The complexities of a move to S/4HANA was creating even greater need for visibility.

With so much at stake and the potential for costly disruption, they needed confidence they could make the change.

The solution: Correlating the performance of the SAP environment to business performance in a common language.

With so much change going on, they needed an ongoing platform to make sure they had the continual performance, stability, and SAP uptime their businesses need, both in their existing environment and as they migrated to S/4HANA.

Like our customer, being able to map and understand your entire environment, not just your SAP stack, and monitor all the way down to a single line of code to identify root cause faster, is essential to helping you ensure ongoing stability and success and avoid costly production disruption.

Topics

• Industry Insights
• Digital Transfomation