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 systems or integrations are brought under observability and management.
For years, the industry accepted that observability required a heavy initial lift. Changes in monitoring policy or underlying infrastructure triggered additional effort often parallel and size and scope to initial onboarding. Whether it was the labyrinthine setup of SAP Solution Manager, the slightly-less-heavy-but-still-weighty Focused Run, or even the modern Cloud ALM, the story was the same: to get value, you first had to survive the implementation.
With the release of Avantra 26, we’re not just lowering that tax – we’re effectively abolishing it. We’ve reimagined what it looks like to move from a “bare” landscape to a fully managed, automated environment. The goal? From zero to managed in record time.