Jim Dugger Why Always-On Visibility is the Foundation of Scalable SAP Operations The Autonomous Enterprise promises a future where AI agents handle routine work at scale while people focus on higher-value priorities. But autonomous execution is only as reliable as the SAP systems,... Sep 16, 2026
Jim Dugger RISE with SAP: Successfully Managing SAP Operations During the Transition RISE with SAP is SAP’s methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also tr... Sep 14, 2026
Jim Dugger Extending Cloud ALM for ERP Operational Success Read at Avantra.com SAP customers are navigating a period of significant change. Of course, there’s the transition to Cloud ERP and the scheduled end of standard support options for ECC in 2027 – thes... Aug 19, 2026
Jim Dugger The Hidden Costs of Hybrid SAP Landscapes: The Human Toll of Transformation Hybrid SAP is a rational, risk-managed decision for most large enterprises — but it comes at a cost leaders often miss: the sustained strain it places on the teams who keep it running. ...read more at... Aug 10, 2026
Jim Dugger The Hidden Costs of Hybrid SAP Landscapes: Why Fragmented Tooling Is Quietly Draining Your Budget Hybrid SAP landscapes buy time and reduce transformation risk, but they also create a tooling trap most leaders don’t see coming. As ECC and Cloud ERP run side by side, monitoring, automation, and inf... Aug 10, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP Cloud Connector: Essential for Ground-to-Cloud and AI Operations When SAP unveiled the Business AI Platform at Sapphire 2026, it folded BTP, Business Data Cloud, and Business AI into a single governed environment. BTP didn’t disappear but became essential architect... Aug 7, 2026
Jim Dugger Are You Audit-Ready? Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn’t say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct wh... Jul 27, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP Cloud ERP in 2026: What’s Included, What Isn’t, and What It Means for Your Migration Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP h... Jul 23, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP AI agent governance For three parts of this series, we’ve been talking about the AI agent as the object of change management: the new downstream consumer of every transport you ship, the new reasons a low-impact customiz... Jul 16, 2026
Jim Dugger From Zero to Managed in Record Time If you’ve spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the “Configuration Tax.” It’s that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new syste... Jul 16, 2026
Jim Dugger Home Sweet Hybrid – There’s more to your transition than core ERP Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and appr... Jun 28, 2026
Jim Dugger Agentic AI is only as good as the ERP platform beneath it Agentic AI won’t fix poor ERP governance. It will amplify it across your entire landscape. SAP made it clear at Sapphire 2026 that the Autonomous Enterprise is a key focus for its strategic future, an... Jun 23, 2026