Using automation to optimise operations, ATLAS for SAP assists enterprises with a range of business transformations including SAP HANA migration, private/public cloud deployment and SAP S/4 HANA implementation.

ATLAS for SAP combines a suite of SAP tools and methodologies, including SAP Solution Manager and the Activate methodology, with Mindtree’s SAP HANA expertise and experience managing cloud infrastructure and testing platforms. Mindtree has also successfully applied both Agile and DevOps concepts to SAP.

“ATLAS for SAP from Mindtree makes it possible for customers to run their business with minimal disruption while using the power of SAP HANA and the cloud in their journey towards a smarter and nimbler SAP landscape,” said Arun Rangaraju, Mindtree’s senior vice president and global head for SAP.

According to Mindtree, ATLAS’s end-to-end, output-based managed services framework focuses on delivering optimised business value, replacing outdated ticket-in, ticket-out managed application services.

The flexible platform comprises processes, tools, accelerators and dashboards that help a wide range of enterprises to run their technology operations and services more efficiently. With customised pricing models, ATLAS can be employed to design and deploy fully tested applications, scale capacity under very tight deadlines and reduce or eliminate integration risks.

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With this new release, SAP said it intends to redefine its implementation methodology by allowing customers to implement and operate SAP S/4HANA as their digital core solution easily.

“The development of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 was born from customer and user group feedback, as well as from keeping a close eye on market trends,” said Dr Uwe Hommel, executive vice president, head of Digital Business Services and head of Global Centers of Expertise, SAP SE.

“We believe that SAP Solution Manager is the perfect foundation for delivering co-engineering projects within the next generation of the SAP MaxAttention services because it is not only our most user-friendly solution manager yet, but it provides innovation in functional areas across the board. SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is therefore perfect in helping our customers adopt digital business trends.”

To be incorporated in all SAP S/4 HANA service packages, Solution Manager 7.2 is built to support hybrid environments. It is the first version of the solution to offer a single view of the entire SAP software infrastructure, including SAP HANA, and includes a complete graphical environment for business process modelling, enabling customers to manage models based on SAP S/4HANA to perform technical realisation and operations in one centralised location.

A trial version of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is available from the SAP Cloud Appliance Library at http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud-appliance-library.

The announcement builds on last week’s release of Focused solutions for SAP Solution Manager.

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“The offering is built on our business priorities to move our customers to the cloud, make the digital enterprise real and establish SAP S/4HANA as the digital core,” said Michael Kleinemeier, executive board member, SAP SE, Digital Business Services.

Encompassing on-premise, cloud and hybrid options, the service packages cover all SAP S/4HANA project phases and scenarios, including system conversion, landscape transformation and new implementations. The packages use SAP Activate innovation adoption, a framework that combines SAP best practices packages, implementation methodology and guided configuration to help customers streamline their SAP S/4HANA deployment.

There are four levels, each with an increasing level of engagement. SAP ActiveEmbedded for planning and safeguarding provides guidance on the impact, challenges and benefits of SAP S/4HANA, incorporating expertise on demand from a dedicated technical quality manager plus remote access to an SAP mission control centre. SAP ActiveEmbedded for technical implementation provides expert-level, detailed implementation planning that features an innovation road map tailored to customers’ specific needs, in addition to individualised technical architecture and infrastructure documentation. SAP ActiveEmbedded for functional implementation supports the implementation of innovations and new SAP S/4HANA business scenarios. It provides modified custom code based on specific system needs, enabling customers to progress quickly through an optimised business transformation based on SAP S/4HANA. SAP MaxAttention for innovation provides full end-to-end business experience focused on SAP S/4HANA, including guidance for anticipating the new business process scenarios required in the digital world.

The service packages are being provided by the Digital Business Services organisation of SAP, which was renamed from Global Service & Support last month to better reflect its focus on digital transformation. The service packages combine Digital Business Services expertise with that of the broader base of SAP partners.

Last year, Digital Business Services introduced a new model providing one simplified service portfolio under one contract from one global unit. “Continuing the evolution that Digital Business Services began in 2015, this offering highlights our commitment to our customers on their digital transformation journeys,” said Kleinemeier. “We want them to know that regardless of how they choose to perform their SAP software implementation, we will be there to support them,” he said.

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