Maximizing Your ERP Investment With Automic Automation

SAP is moving to the cloud with SAP Rise, SAP BTP, SAP DI, and SAP IBP. Isn't it time for you to evolve your enterprise and point automation solutions to a cloud-based approach, too?

What is old is new again: Siloed automation is re-emerging

For decades, ERP platforms like SAP and Oracle have been like the backbone of an enterprise’s operations. These solutions will continue to play a central role, and are increasingly being consumed via cloud models.

If we look at the new tools and releases from SAP, for example, we can see a clear trend, with the vendor moving away from on-premises models and into a cloud-first approach. If you then start looking at the new personas and applications emerging, like citizen developers who manage their automation with tools like Airflow, we see an old picture emerge: people operating in silos. As with teams in the past, people care about their processes and automating what they are responsible for, with little or no thought beyond their silos, or how  their processes affect the business.

In combination with cloud technologies, ERP platforms and the data they manage and process are critical to business success, today and moving forward. However, these platforms can also introduce silos, leaving teams contending with cumbersome integrations and manual processes that stifle agility and flexibility.

ERP modernization imperatives

Technology leaders need to rethink their approaches and find a way to leverage their ERP investments, while gaining the agility and flexibility their business requires. To do so, it is vital to achieve the following objectives:

• Extend ERP processes beyond their existing silos, and integrate with the modern environment, including cloud services.  
• Provide the ability to pass parameters and data from on-premises locations to cloud applications and vice versa.
• Deliver new functionality quickly, without affecting existing operations.
• Connect ERP information with other data sources for timely analysis and maximum insights.
• Minimize human intervention to reduce errors and speed processing.

Gain control and insight with enterprise automation

To move at the pace your digital enterprise requires, technical leaders need to rethink their approach to automation. They must transition from opportunistic, point solutions to an enterprise-wide, systematic approach. They need a cohesive platform for process automation that works across the entire enterprise, supporting reuse, agility, visibility, and compliance.

This platform must connect the ERP applications with the business processes they support. It must also offer seamless integration with other applications and data sources in the ecosystem and the underlying infrastructure. By adopting a systematic automation platform, enterprises can extend the life of their ERP investments and ensure the agility needed for the future.

Automic Automation connects cloud and on-premises

Automic Automation offers a marketplace with hundreds of integrations for SAP and Oracle, cloud-based technologies, and  traditional on-premises applications. With these integrations, Automic can link all the new and old technologies and remove application silos. You get a better return on investments, whether from your legacy technology stack, your cloud services, or your ERP modernization efforts.

Automic for SAP

Automic Automation for SAP offers seamless automation integration that enhances the value of your SAP investments, over both the near and long term. The solution features a unified automation engine and a comprehensive range of adapters, facilitating the creation of business processes that incorporate tasks from both SAP and non-SAP systems.

This integration fosters a completely automated flow of business processes across various applications. The solution has received multiple certifications from the SAP Integration & Certification Center, including certified integration with RISE with SAP S/4 HANA Cloud. With these capabilities, organizations can enhance SAP operations, boost efficiency, and gain complete process visibility.

Automic for Oracle

Automic Automation supports both on-premises and cloud editions of Oracle technologies. With its support for Oracle ERP, Customer Care and Billing, Retail, and more, the solution enables  seamless integration of business processing that spans these technologies and your wider application ecosystem, whether on-premises or in the cloud. The solution’s centralized control enhances the efficiency of Oracle ERP applications and facilitates their integration with other critical enterprise systems. Automic boosts processing efficiency and provides comprehensive process visibility to deliver a superior service.

Automic Automation supports a wide array of critical business applications, offering integrations via specialized agents, APIs, and web services. With these capabilities, you can establish a truly interconnected workflow ecosystem. This ecosystem provides a holistic view of your operation and empowers you to maximize the value of Oracle ERP investments over the long term.

Maximize ERP your investment with Automic Automation    

Your organization has invested a lot in your ERP solutions and you rely upon these solutions to move the business forward. However, these platforms have presented data silos, manual processes, and other obstacles that pose an increasing impediment to agility and innovation. With Automatic Automation, you can both fully leverage your ERP investments and maximize agility and innovation. To learn more, visit the Automic page on Broadcom Software Academy.