Jim Dugger RISE with SAP Monitoring: Overcoming the 'Black Box' Challenge of monitoring Cloud ERP Organizations transitioning from traditional on-premises SAP systems to Cloud ERP (formerly known as “RISE” and “GROW”) have a new set of monitoring challenges. Unlike the familiar on-prem landscape, ... Jan 20, 2026
Jim Dugger Avantra 25.2: Enhancing Security and Reducing Complexity in Hybrid SAP Landscapes I am pleased to announce the release of Avantra 25.2 ! While 25.2 is a service release focused on software stability, it introduces several powerful new features designed to streamline SAP automation ... Dec 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Integrating SAP change management with ServiceNow Integration with ServiceNow is one of the most common requests I've experienced in technical practice. From phones, to HVAC and even SAP, companies want service management in a single location. As goo... Dec 11, 2025
Jim Dugger Managing SAP change control processes beyond ChaRM The end of Solution Manager (SolMan) and the built-in ChaRM change management tool isn’t news; we’ve known about it for some time. In this blog, we investigate ChaRM replacement alternatives, focusing... Dec 4, 2025
Jim Dugger Data Drives Better Decision Making for SAP Quality Teams When SAP ecosystems evolve, stability alone isn’t enough. The next frontier is intelligence and testing that anticipates change before it happens. Change-aware testing replaces guesswork with impact-b... Dec 4, 2025
Jim Dugger Driving Innovation in the Approach to SAP Quality In today’s SAP environments, speed isn’t optional. Every organization running SAP faces the same pressure to deliver faster, innovate faster, and release updates without disrupting business continuity... Dec 4, 2025
Jim Dugger Future-Proofing Your Business: Why RISE with SAP is More Than a Technical Upgrade 2025 and 2027 are well documented dates in SAP circles. Many SAP users have viewed the transition to S/4HANA and Cloud ERP as an opportunity for transformation, eliminating technical debt and enabling... Oct 29, 2025
Jim Dugger The Impact of Change in SAP: Automating Quality Processes When SAP landscapes mature, the challenge isn’t just keeping up, it’s staying ahead. The same practices that once stabilized quality now need to evolve again to match the accelerating pace of change. ... Oct 24, 2025
Jim Dugger The Impact of Change in SAP: Adopting Quality Processes When it comes to SAP testing, growth brings both opportunity and strain. What once worked can start to buckle under the pressure of scale. As teams expand and projects multiply, risk finds new ways to... Oct 24, 2025
Jim Dugger The Heroic SAP Testing Team The Heroic SAP Testing Team Many SAP organizations heavily rely on manual testing to ensure SAP release quality. This approach works well for firms with smaller SAP environments with limited change, a... Oct 24, 2025
Jim Dugger Avantra + Ansible: Better Together for Enterprise SAP Automation Enterprises trust Ansible for fast, reliable infrastructure automation, including terraform for automated cloud provisioning. Many organizations using Ansible leverage Ansible SAP playbooks for SAP in... Oct 22, 2025
Jim Dugger Get to S/4HANA faster and safer The end of support for ECC isn’t a secret. In fact, it might be the biggest single topic in the SAP ecosystem today. But the end of support for existing systems alone doesn’t make the transition easie... Oct 15, 2025