DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What’s needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business. In this conversation […]
SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment
SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based on the open source Cloud Foundry project. Dan Lahl, global vice president of product marketing for SAP Cloud Platform, said SAP is now […]
Magic xpi Integration Platform Achieves SAP-Certified Integration with SAP S/4HANA®- Empowers customers
Magic’s integration solution empowers customers to automate and optimize processes through interoperability with SAP® solutions Laguna Hills, CA, October 9th, 2018 – Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: MGIC), a global provider of end-to-end integration and low-code application development platforms and IT consulting services, announced today that its Magic xpi Integration Platform 4 has achieved SAP-certified integration with SAP S/4HANA, enabling Magic’s customers to […]
EDAT for ERP Increases Velocity, Ensures Quality
IT organizations today are faced with the challenge of delivering new capabilities at higher velocity to enable digital transformation. While enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provide a stable integrated foundation and emerging capabilities to meet business needs, their integration and deployment processes were built for a waterfall methodology. As business agility is paramount to market […]
AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications
Application performance management (APM) is starting to be employed more widely as more organizations embrace digital business transformation. As the number of digital business processes spanning multiple applications increases, so does the need to understand what’s occurring inside both greenfield and legacy applications. In fact, at the heart of many of those digital business processes […]
SAP Cloud Price Changes Reflect DevOps Realities
To foster more application development in the DevOps era, SAP at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference announced it is adding a consumption-based pricing option to its SAP Cloud Platform environment. Based mainly on the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) overseen by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the SAP Cloud Platform provides a way for SAP customers […]
SAP Adds SDK to ERP Cloud Service
When most IT organizations think about DevOps it’s usually within the context of custom application development. But thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), packaged applications are now becoming a much bigger factor. SAP, for example, just made available a software development kit (SDK) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an instance of its ERP […]
Tailoring DevOps to your IT: A case study for SAP
I am frequently asked if DevOps principles can be applied to legacy environments such as SAP. They clearly can, with some tailoring. But you should be aware of certain constraints. An agile transformation from conventional IT (where the SAP software delivery process is split between business analysts, development, the QA department and IT operations) towards […]