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Advanced Monitoring for Cluster Environments


Cluster monitoring involves managing a network of interconnected components, referred to as a cluster, within a designated environment. Clusters, often consisting of interconnected servers, databases, or computing nodes, are the backbone of numerous applications, ranging from web services to enterprise solutions. As organizations adopt hybrid cloud environments, microservices architectures, and containerized workloads, the traditional methods of monitoring may face limitations in keeping pace with the evolving complexity and scale of modern ...

Feb 27 | Femi Charles

IT-Conductor Joins The AWS WMP Program


IT-Conductor proudly announces via EIN Presswire its participation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Workload ...

Feb 20 | Paulina Jaramillo

Uncovering Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in 2024


In today's interconnected digital landscape, trust in cloud services has skyrocketed in recent years, with companies shifting a significant portion ...

Feb 16 | Paulina Jaramillo

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q4-2023


Greetings and welcome to the Q4-2023 edition of IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features. As we bring another thrilling year to a close, we’ve ...

Dec 20 | Femi Charles

Maximizing Security and Performance with pfSense


pfSense® has emerged as a formidable alternative network security solution designed to cater to the evolving needs of modern enterprises, surpassing ...

Dec 14 | Danica Esteban

A Guide to Configuring and Monitoring IDocs with IT-Conductor


When it comes to SAP applications, intermediate documents (or IDocs) are essential for the successful transfer of business data. IDocs can be used ...

Nov 30 | Paulina Jaramillo

Meet Vince Chapa, Our New Emerging Market Growth Advisor


Embarking on a journey of innovation and strategic transformation, we are elated to introduce Vince Chapa, a seasoned Executive in Advisory and ...

Nov 20 | Danica Esteban

Exploring SAP RISE: Benefits, Trade-Offs, and the Role of Joule


SAP RISE and Joule have emerged as two groundbreaking offerings, promising to reshape how organizations operate. However, they both brought to light ...

Nov 16 | Danica Esteban

The Surge in Third-Party SAP Service Providers


SAP support plays a crucial role in maintaining smooth operations within organizations that use SAP. It ensures uninterrupted access to critical ...

Nov 9 | Paulina Jaramillo

Myths and Facts About Automating SAP Monitoring


As AI and automation become increasingly prominent in our lives and lines of work, so does our resistance to change and innovation. The automation of ...

Oct 23 | Paulina Jaramillo

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q3-2023


Welcome to the Q3-2023 edition of IT-Conductor's latest automation features. We are thrilled to present some exciting releases from the past quarter, ...

Oct 9 | Femi Charles

IT-Conductor Re-Energized on SAP Store for RISE and Non-RISE Customers


We are thrilled to announce a significant update to our IT-Conductor Cloud-based Application Management solution on the SAP Store. In addition to its ...

Oct 4 | Claudia Yanez

Automate SAP Kernel Update with IT-Conductor


For SAP administrators, the constant pursuit of improved performance and security stands out as one of the topmost priorities to ensure system ...

Sep 27 | Danica Esteban

Simplifying the SAP System Refresh with SID-Refresh™


With contributions from Paulina Jaramillo In a few words, system refresh is simply copying one SAP system to another when the target SAP system ...

Sep 22 | Linh Nguyen

Key Insights from AWS PartnerCast: Automated End-to-End SAP Migration


Last August 15, 2023, our most awaited AWS PartnerCast event took center stage as we showcased our automated migration services. In this virtual ...

Aug 28 | Danica Esteban

Meet Michael Arenas, Our New Cloud Alliances and Sales Advisor


Join us in welcoming Michael Arenas to the IT-Conductor team as the Cloud Alliances and Sales Advisor. Michael's extensive experience in cloud ...

Aug 11 | Linh Nguyen

AWS Security Blueprint: Best Practices for Cloud Protection


Navigating the vast array of Best Practices for Security, Identity, and Compliance in AWS can be a daunting task, leaving you uncertain about the ...

Jul 20 | Danica Esteban

Understanding the Importance of QA in Automation Projects


In 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation have been among the most discussed topics globally, and we can't deny that they have simplified ...

Jul 11 | Paulina Jaramillo

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q2-2023


Welcome to the Q2-2023 edition of IT-Conductor's latest automation features. We have curated a selection of the most popular features from the ...

Jul 5 | Femi Charles

Introducing Jordi Conrado as Our New Business Development Advisor


We are thrilled to share the exciting news of Jordi Conrado joining the IT-Conductor team as our Business Development Advisor. With a wealth of ...

Jun 14 | Linh Nguyen

Addressing Challenges in Workflow Automation


In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to workflow automation to streamline processes and achieve ...

Jun 8 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Secures Patent for APM Platform


We are pleased to announce another milestone for IT-Conductor. We’ve announced via EINPresswire the issuance of US patent no. 11,329,899 titled ...

Jun 1 | Paulina Jaramillo

Eliminating IT Silos with Unified Monitoring


Break down the barriers of IT silos and unlock the full potential of your organization with unified monitoring. The push toward digital ...

May 17 | Danica Esteban

How APM Automation Accelerates SAP Assessment, Performance & Migration


For the past couple of years, IT-Conductor has been working with several partners and customers to enable smarter SAP migration delivery, especially ...

May 3 | Linh Nguyen

Azure Monitoring with IT-Conductor


IT-Conductor provides a comprehensive solution to migrate and monitor your resources in Azure and beyond. Cloud environments usually feature highly ...

Apr 19 | Danica Esteban

Why Database Monitoring Should Be a Top Priority for Every IT Team


Imagine that you're the IT manager of a thriving business, and your team is responsible for managing a critical database that supports many of the ...

Apr 14 | Paulina Jaramillo

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q1-2023


Welcome to the Q1-2023 edition of IT-Conductor's latest automation features. In this edition, we have exciting new features that will be of interest ...

Apr 4 | Femi Charles

IT-Conductor Now Listed in Azure AD Application Gallery


We are excited to announce that IT-Conductor is now listed in the Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application Gallery! This accomplishment highlights ...

Mar 24 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Achieves AWS Migration & Modernization Competency Status


We are pleased to announce that IT-Conductor has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration and Modernization Competency status. The AWS Competency ...

Mar 15 | Paulina Jaramillo

Automated Migration for SAP on MSSQL to AWS


IT-Conductor has developed several solutions to help organizations in their digital transformation, working on automating the most complex and ...

Mar 8 | Claudia Yanez

Top 10 Things to Check for Continuous SAP Monitoring


Continuous monitoring plays a critical role in ensuring the optimal performance of an SAP system. With this approach, you can identify and address ...

Mar 1 | Femi Charles

Simplifying SAP LT and RFC Monitoring with IT-Conductor


If your organization uses the SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) Replication Server to transfer data from a source to a target system to keep a ...

Feb 20 | Danica Esteban

Automated SAP Transport Request Management


Most people who have experience working with SAP understand that the management of transport requests involves a significant amount of effort in ...

Jan 24 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q4-2022


Welcome to the Q4-2022 edition of IT-Conductor’s latest automation features. In this final edition, we aim to keep you abreast of the enhancements in ...

Jan 5 | Femi Charles

AWS Monitoring with IT-Conductor


Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) for the 12th ...

Dec 7 | Danica Esteban

Auditing HANA Security via IT-Conductor Syslog Monitoring


System Logging Protocol, widely known as Syslog, is a standard protocol that facilitates the sending of system logs or messages to a centralized ...

Nov 15 | Danica Esteban

An Overview to Windows Monitoring with IT-Conductor


Windows servers have been powering businesses for many years now. The high degree of scalability that comes with running applications on the Windows ...

Oct 20 | Danica Esteban

Monitoring Linux Systems with IT-Conductor


Linux is one of the most popular operating systems on the market. It's renowned for its open-source nature, security, stability, interoperability, ...

Oct 13 | Ashish Gaurav

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q3-2022


Welcome to the Q3-2022 edition of IT-Conductor’s latest automation features. In this penultimate edition, we attempt to address some of the ...

Sep 30 | Femi Charles

12 Best Practices for a Simpler and Faster Cloud Migration


Organizations have different business objectives when it comes to migrating to the cloud. Most drivers behind cloud transformation initiatives are ...

Aug 25 | Danica Esteban

QA Migration Checklist for Validating Cloud Deployments


Immediately after migrating your systems and applications to the cloud, it’s important to validate that everything is working as expected. This ...

Aug 9 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q2-2022


Welcome to the Q2-2022 edition of IT-Conductor’s latest automation features. This edition covers tools you can use for automation, migration, and ...

Jun 29 | Femi Charles

Deploy Applications to the Cloud


There are multiple cloud deployment options for provisioning IT infrastructure and deploying applications to the cloud. Choosing the right deployment ...

Jun 20 | Danica Esteban

Team-based Central SAP Download Manager


SAP Download Manager Integration is the latest offering from IT-Conductor aimed at improving the efficiencies of IT organizations. SAP Download ...

Jun 16 | Femi Charles

SAP Monitoring Long-running Transaction and Expensive SQL Analysis


Are you aware that the lack of monitoring of long-running jobs can cause performance issues, impacting online users as well as other workloads? If ...

Jun 10 | Too Choong

Building a Cloud Infrastructure: Automated Migration


Building a cloud infrastructure is a complex process. If you are new to this topic, we recommend that you start by reading our introductory article ...

Jun 3 | Danica Esteban

Designing Your Target Cloud Infrastructure


Over the years, cloud architects have implemented various cloud migration scenarios based on architectural design principles and cloud migration best ...

May 27 | Danica Esteban

Benchmarking in the Cloud: Generating Cloud Baselines


Performance and configuration baselines are critical in understanding the current state of your application environment before migrating to the ...

May 19 | Danica Esteban

The Role of Application Discovery in Cloud Migration


Most organizations understand the importance of having a concrete plan and strategy when migrating to the cloud. In the article we've published ...

May 10 | Danica Esteban

SAP Monitoring Tools Overview (Updated May 2022)


In this latest edition of the SAP Monitoring Tools comparison matrix, version 5.0 (May 2022), we've added Avantra to the list, having waited for a ...

May 9 | Linh Nguyen

How to Secure Your Cloud Environment?


Security in any cloud environment is a shared responsibility between the organization and the cloud provider. The distribution of responsibilities ...

Apr 27 | Danica Esteban

How Do You Measure Cloud Migration Success?


Defining cloud migration success starts with setting business objectives and establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) that should meet what the ...

Apr 18 | Danica Esteban

Cloud Migration: Benefits and Its Challenges


Cloud migration is already mainstream. Studies show that at least 70% of businesses already migrated their workloads to the cloud. Since the COVID-19 ...

Apr 13 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q1-2022


Welcome to the Q1-2022 edition of IT-Conductor latest automation features. As part of our long-term plan to grow our self-service offerings, we have ...

Apr 5 | Femi Charles

Automated Migration of SAP HANA to Azure Cloud


Migrating databases to the cloud requires rigorous planning especially when it involves mission-critical applications like SAP. From understanding ...

Apr 1 | Danica Esteban

What is Cloud Migration? Strategy, Process, and Implementation


Cloud migration may sound as simple as migrating resources from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. However, migrating to the cloud means a lot ...

Mar 21 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Cloud-based APM Now Available on SAP Store


We are happy to announce via SAP Partner Press Release that our IT-Conductor Cloud-based Application Management solution is now available for online ...

Mar 17 | Claudia Yanez

How to Build Observable Systems?


Building observable systems requires understanding the concept of observability and its three pillars—metrics, logs, and traces. However, ...

Feb 8 | Danica Esteban

A Deep Dive Into Observability


Application Performance Management (APM) tools have evolved along with the modernization of applications and IT infrastructures. From simply ...

Jan 24 | Danica Esteban

Accelerate Your Cloud Transformation Efforts This 2022


For the past two years, we have seen how the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to adapt to the new ways of working. As we continue to live in this ...

Jan 12 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q4-2021


We hope you enjoyed a peaceful holiday! This is our Q4-2021 edition of the latest features in IT-Conductor with a summary of a feature-rich 2021: ...

Jan 4 | Femi Charles

Holiday Checklist for SAP Basis Teams


With contributions from IT-Conductor Support Team The holiday season is just around the corner which means organizations are now starting to operate ...

Dec 20 | Danica Esteban

SAP Fiori in Focus: SAP Gateway Monitoring


SAP has been widely regarded for its software solutions having complex user interfaces. In May 2013, when SAP announced the launch of SAP Fiori as “a ...

Dec 1 | Danica Esteban

Monitoring SAP Data Services with IT-Conductor


In the world of data integration and near real-time analytics, SAP Data Services (also known as BODS which stands for BusinessObjects Data Services) ...

Nov 11 | Claudia Yanez

Application Performance Management for Microsoft SQL Server


With contributions from Claudia Yanez One of the main tasks of a DBA administrator is to do daily checks to ensure database servers are working ...

Oct 28 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q3-2021


Welcome to the Q3-2021 edition of IT-Conductor's latest automation features. In view of customers' operational and automation requirements, we are ...

Oct 14 | Femi Charles

7 Signs Your IT Operations Need Better Monitoring


How organizations monitor IT operations has evolved since the early years of computing—from having small IT teams manage everything to splitting ...

Oct 11 | Danica Esteban

SAP IT Operations Automation on the Cloud


Cloud computing has gained popularity as more and more organizations realize the business value it brings to the table. As cloud adoption becomes ...

Sep 22 | Danica Esteban

SAP Workflow Automation with IT-Conductor


In 2014, the hashtag #ChickenSad on Twitter became a trending topic worldwide. This has led people to wonder why a bird with emotions has to trend ...

Sep 9 | Danica Esteban

Reinforcing Hybrid Workforce with Cloud Transformation


A hybrid workforce is the future of work. According to the 2021 State of hybrid work report, a survey conducted to 1000 individuals among US ...

Aug 26 | Danica Esteban

Drivers Behind Cloud Transformation Initiatives: A Closer Look


According to IBM Institute for Business Value C-Suite Series: The 2021 CEO Study, with insights from more than 3,000 CEOs around the world, the ...

Aug 9 | Danica Esteban

Developing your Cloud First Strategy


Imagine this scenario. Your business just scaled up because of the increasing demand for your product and service. However, your hardware ...

Jul 27 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q2-2021


Welcome to the Q2-2021 edition of IT-Conductor latest automation features. We are excited to share with you a few of what we’ve been working on ...

Jul 20 | Femi Charles

Leveraging SAP Transport Automation by IT-Conductor


This case study talks about the basics of SAP Transport Management and how IT-Conductor SAP Transport Automation can help transform your ...

May 24 | Danica Esteban

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q1-2021


Welcome to the Q1-2021 edition of IT-Conductor latest automation features. As expected, we bring you advanced features in automation, monitoring, and ...

Apr 28 | Femi Charles

Advanced Automation of SAP Failed Job Restart


With contributions from Femi Charles and Linh Nguyen It is quite normal to encounter failed jobs in SAP and there can be several reasons as to why ...

Apr 19 | Danica Esteban

SAP End-User Experience Monitoring


End-user experience is changing how organizations define success. Knowing how to monitor and make sense of end-user experience data will help you ...

Apr 7 | Danica Esteban

Automated Snoozing of SAP Systems - Why Should You Care?


SAP is a vital component in most organizations worldwide as it allows better communication and efficient data management across different ...

Mar 30 | Danica Esteban

SAP Monitoring Solutions in 2021 – What’s the Latest?


For many years, SAP has been helping several organizations enable communication and information interchange across cross-functional teams. With its ...

Mar 17 | Danica Esteban

Compare the Latest HANA Monitoring and SAP Monitoring Solutions


How time flies when you're busy innovating! It's almost 6 years since we published the guide How to Select your SAP Monitoring Tools in 2015 and ...

Mar 11 | Linh Nguyen

Automating Your Database Migration Strategy to the Cloud


The number of organizations embarking on their digital transformation journey has continued to increase. Part of the efforts being carried out ...

Feb 16 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor MSP Support and 2020 in Review


Welcome to the Q4 edition of the latest features in IT-Conductor. This year has been quite eventful in every respect; most especially with the ...

Dec 31 | Femi Charles

Unifying the Git/Terraform/Ansible Workflow


It takes hours to execute terraform and ansible jobs. What if I want Ansible jobs to start immediately after my infrastructure gets provisioned ...

Oct 8 | Dinesh Amatya

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q3-2020


Welcome to the Q3 edition of the latest automation features released by your preferred APM solution: IT-Conductor. As a leading provider of APM ...

Sep 30 | Femi Charles

CVE-2020-6287 AKA RECON (Remotely Exploitable Code on NetWeaver)


Identified as HotNews SAP Note #2934135 (CVE-2020-6287) in the July 2020 SAP Security Notes mentioned in our earlier blog SAP Security Patch Day, the ...

Sep 7 | Vladimir Mokrushov

SAP Security Patch Day


According to a study by Cybersecurity Ventures, cyber-crimes will cost the world almost $6 trillion a year by 2021. In the last few years, ...

Sep 1 | Vladimir Mokrushov

IT-Conductor Tenant IT Health Overview Dashboard


In a previous post, We covered an overview of IT-Conductor's latest automation features, with a brief spotlight on the IT-Conductor Dashboard. This ...

Aug 13 | Konde Domingo

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q2-2020


Another exciting time is here again when we share with you a few of the improvements and additions we've made to IT-Conductor since the last quarter. ...

Jul 7 | Femi Charles

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q1-2020


Adding to our growing list of best-in-class APM solution features, this Q1-2020 edition introduces features that will further ease the mode of ...

Mar 31 | Femi Charles

Why Businesses are Turning to Remote Teams in 2020


As the world braces for panic from the Coronavirus (COVID-19), companies and households are under pressure to find efficient ways of working and ...

Mar 9 | William Hsiong

SAP Solution Manager TCO Calculator


The following assessment, research, and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculations are derived from real customer deployment, upgrades, industry ...

Feb 7 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q4-2019


Welcome to the Q4-2019 edition of IT-Conductor's latest features where we unveil some of the new features leveraged by our growing customers to ease ...

Dec 31 | Femi Charles

Configuring and Monitoring SAP HANA 2 Extension Node


IT-Conductor continues to stay on top of new release features of SAP HANA. In the previous presentations, we explored HANA’s warm data management ...

Oct 6 | Terry Kempis

IT-Conductor Latest Automation Features Q3-2019


IT-Conductor focused this quarter on increasing the ROI for our customer's daily SAP Operations by automating the management of critical areas to ...

Sep 30 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor Latest Monitoring Features Q2-2019


In view of customers’ requirements and our commitment to delivering intuitive functionalities, more useful tools and features have been added to the ...

Jun 28 | Femi Charles

IT-Conductor Latest Monitoring Features Q1-2019


As always, we at IT-Conductor are consistently working on expanding our service offerings and global footprint while offering innovative features and ...

Mar 29 | Femi Charles

SAP Basis Monitoring for Application Locks and Enqueue


The restriction on data modification, while a data record is being changed by another user, is to ensure data consistency within an SAP system. This ...

Oct 11 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Database Performance Analysis


Top-down service management involves App, DB, OS, and other infrastructure components, performed in a correlated fashion. Identifying performance ...

Oct 4 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Workload Performance


Good application and system design incorporate both high availability and performance. A best practice in monitoring performance is managing ...

Sep 26 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Operating Systems


Most organizations have IT teams responsible for monitoring and managing the infrastructure (OS, Storage, Network), however for SAP Basis teams, it's ...

Sep 20 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Backups


It's best practice to regularly back up your operating system and database to restore the SAP system should the need arise. Hence, one of the chief ...

Sep 19 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Background or Batch Jobs


SAP Job Monitoring & Management Most SAP systems today are heavily dependent on critical background jobs to power the business processes. As much ...

Sep 14 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Monitoring for Printing and Spool Administration


Printing from SAP is an important function of the business application. It is a specialized area of focus due to the critical dependency of most ...

Sep 11 | Linh Nguyen

The Core of SAP Basis Monitoring


SAP operations are usually managed by in-house teams, outsourced to a Managed Service Provider (MSP), or both, utilizing a hybrid support model. SAP ...

Sep 11 | Linh Nguyen

End-to-End SAP Job Monitoring and Management


In today's enterprises, there are often very complex business processes managed by the SAP ecosystem often involving transactions, batch jobs, ...

Jun 28 | Linh Nguyen

Demystifying SAP on Azure


It's been a year since we last updated about our effort with SAP on Azure when we demonstrated how we remotely monitor and agentlessly manage S/4HANA ...

May 15 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Automation with SID-Refresh Supports S/4HANA, ECC CRM BW


As of May 1, 2018, we have released an updated version 1.4.1 adding S/4HANA support to the list announced in February 2018 (v1.4) where technical ...

May 1 | Linh Nguyen

Monitoring HANA HA/DR with System Replication using IT-Conductor


As more sites are using system replication (SR) with the feature ‘active:active read_enabled’, it is of great benefit to perform SAP HANA monitoring ...

Mar 28 | Terry Kempis

Top 10 Reasons Cloud-based Monitoring is Superior Compared to On-prem


In today's cloud computing age, one would think the IT world would ask less about why cloud but rather when and how, but the fact is many still ...

Mar 8 | Linh Nguyen

Monitor SAP to See How Meltdown and Spectre May Affect SAP Performance


If you're working in IT, no doubt by now you have likely heard in the last week of Meltdown and Spectre affecting modern computers. As I am preparing ...

Jan 10 | Linh Nguyen

Cloud SAP Migration Made Easy Any to Any


We Found an Easier Way than the Easiest Last year we wrote about The Easiest Migration to SAP on AWS, now we hate to say it, but we were wrong! After ...

Dec 14 | Linh Nguyen

Are Enterprise Monitoring Teams Losing a Battle to Monitor SAP?


Traditionally, most Enterprise Monitoring Teams (EMTs) took the top-down approach of consolidating company-wide monitoring in as few central ...

Nov 9 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 OS/DB Migration


Regardless of what usage scenarios and platforms you may choose for your Solution Manager 7.2 (Solman), you need options either now or in the future ...

Oct 19 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Solution Manager vs IT-Conductor for SAP Monitoring


SAP Teched 2017 Las Vegas covered many sessions on SAP Solution Manager 7.2 (Solman 7.2). When it comes to technical SAP monitoring and Basis ...

Sep 26 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA 2 SPS02 Upgrade and Dynamic Tiering Implementation


When we upgraded previously to SAP HANA 2, there were still quirks in how Dynamic Tiering work, so it's time to upgrade yet again, this time to SPS02 ...

Sep 13 | Terry Kempis

Will HANA Dominate in SAP Performance over Oracle?


attles have been fought over SAP Performance for years and with HANA as the relatively new kid on the old SAP block, there's bound to be comparisons, ...

Sep 7 | Linh Nguyen

Alexa! Get me an AWS Marketplace SaaS SAP Monitoring App


Amazon wanted some groceries, and Alexa got Whole Foods. Officially on Monday, August 28, 2017, the deal was done, Amazon Echo and Dot devices were ...

Aug 31 | Linh Nguyen

Installation and Monitoring SAP Frontend Server including NW Gateway


If you use S/4HANA, HANA and Fiori, most likely you will need SAP Frontend Server (FES) which also acts as SAP Netweaver Gateway. In prior efforts, ...

Aug 24 | Terry Kempis

S/4HANA Monitoring is LIVE on SAP App Center


It's LIVE on SAP App Center Approved for S/4HANA Monitoring! SAP has approved IT-Conductor SaaS platform for immediate monitoring of S/4HANA ...

Aug 17 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Automation of HANA Backup and Cleanup


It's cool if you can perform SAP monitoring and SAP HANA monitoring without installing an army of agents, but that's not enough, we want to enhance ...

Aug 3 | Terry Kempis

Advanced SAP Monitoring Features by IT-Conductor


Introduction IT-Conductor is a SaaS platform which intelligently orchestrates complex IT operations, saving SAP customers up to 90% of time and cost ...

Jul 26 | Linh Nguyen

S/4HANA Installation Quickstart Guide and Monitoring S/4HANA


Recently, our team has seen a lot of staffing requests for SAP Basis expertise with buzz words like "Must have at least X S/4HANA project/deployment ...

Jul 19 | Terry Kempis

Solution Manager 7.2 SAP Monitoring - Part 4 (S/4HANA Monitoring)


This week we look into configuring the S/4HANA Monitoring scenario as the final part of the Solman 7.2 SAP Monitoring installation and setup ...

Jul 12 | Linh Nguyen

Solution Manager 7.2 SAP Monitoring - Part 3 (Managed System Config)


The two prior parts pertained to the installation and configuration of the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 technical base: Solution Manager 7.2 SAP ...

Jul 5 | Linh Nguyen

Solution Manager 7.2 SAP Monitoring - Part 2 (Configuration)


Last week the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Roadshow visited Northern and Southern California. There is a lot packed into Solman 7.2, and it's here ...

Jun 27 | Linh Nguyen

Solution Manager 7.2 SAP Monitoring - Part 1 (Setup)


If you've attended or planning to attend the ASUG SAP Solution Manager Roadshow, you can learn about SAP Solution Manager 7.2 capabilities and ...

Jun 19 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA 2 Dynamic Tiering Overview including HANA Monitoring


This is a continuation of the first blog, SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Test-drive, as we cover improvements in extended storage features of HANA 2.0, how ...

May 31 | Terry Kempis

SAP PI Monitoring also known as Process Orchestration PO Monitoring


According to SAP, Process Orchestration (SAP PO) is a tool to model and design business processes, primarily used to integrate SAP systems and ...

May 11 | Linh Nguyen

Complex SAP Monitoring Made Simple in Minutes Without Gimmicks


It's time for the SAP Monitoring challenge! How to monitor ANY and ALL of the following in minutes, WITHOUT knowing anything about SAP Solution ...

May 4 | Linh Nguyen

Cloud-based SAP Monitoring of S/4HANA on Azure


On April 25th, 2017 I attended our local Northern California ASUG Chapter quarterly meeting hosted by our friends at Varian Medical Systems, and the ...

Apr 21 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Post-Copy Automation with SID-Refresh


Figure 1: System Refresh Process v 1.4 Announcement Support ECC, CRM, BW, GTS, SRM, SCM, EWM, Solman Announcement Our top download of all time has ...

Mar 29 | Linh Nguyen

Managing and Monitoring SAP HANA 2 Active:Active System Replication


Previously we upgraded our HANA 1.0 SPS12 to HANA 2 SPS00, to test and explore new features. One of the main attractions of HANA 2 is the ability to ...

Mar 14 | Terry Kempis

Monitor SAP KPIs Across Multiple Systems Simultaneously


Ever want to collectively view many KPIs across multiple SAP systems and infrastructure components, even across many sites or locations? It's always ...

Mar 9 | Linh Nguyen

How to Monitor SAP Solution Manager


We have been publishing extensively with more than a dozen articles on How to monitor your SAP environment using SAP Solution Manager, but what ...

Feb 8 | Linh Nguyen

How To Select Your SAP Monitoring Tools


INTRODUCTION: What may seem to be an obvious choice for SAP customers really isn't as obvious! For more than 21 years in the SAP field and hundreds ...

Feb 3 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA 2 Upgrade & Operations: Exploring Features of the New Cockpit


We have recently upgraded our HANA 1.0 SPS12 to HANA 2 SPS00, to test and explore new features. Note that some of the features were already part of ...

Jan 30 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Test-drive


"'Cause you're hot then you're cold If you're yes then you're no You're in then you're out..." Not exactly like the words of Katy Perry's song "Hot n ...

Dec 7 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features


We like the performance features of HANA SPS12 since it has a major feature for Workload Capture and Replay, which fits nicely with our SAP ...

Nov 23 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA SPS12 Upgrade and Exploring New Features (Part 1)


While we were working on upgrading one of our HANA systems and producing this SPS12 Update and New/Changed Features blog, SAP announced HANA 2.0 at ...

Nov 17 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA System Replication - Setup, Operations and HANA Monitoring


Part of HANA's continuous operations objective is to provide built-in support for Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios using HANA System Replication ...

Nov 10 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA Distributed System - Guide to Scale Out, HA, and Monitor HANA


HANA scale-out is unlike other database platforms, it can be simple but complex at the same time. Depending on the scenario, the in-memory nature of ...

Nov 1 | Terry Kempis

SAP Patches Can Fix or Break SAP Performance


Are you hopeful or worried that SAP patches may fix or break your system's performance? Let's face it, if we have a specific problem, we hope a patch ...

Oct 6 | Linh Nguyen

SAP OS DB Migration of BW to HANA Part 3 - Post-processing


Today, I was at the SAP BW/4HANA official launch in gorgeous San Francisco when SAP announced the immediate release to customers on September 7, ...

Sep 8 | Linh Nguyen

SAP OS DB Migration of BW to HANA Part 2 - SUM DMO Tool for Migration


We have taken careful steps to plan, prepare, perform and publish the process of upgrading and migrating BW to SAP HANA so that you will gain further ...

Sep 1 | Terry Kempis

SAP OS DB Migration of BW to HANA Part 1 - Preparation in BW System


If HANA migration is in your roadmap for your current SAP environments (not new implementation), then they would likely fit into one of three ...

Aug 25 | Terry Kempis

The Easiest Migration to SAP on AWS


In 16 years we've been leading SAP OS/DB Migrations globally, whether heterogeneous or homogeneous migrations, they are normally time-consuming and ...

Jul 27 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Testing as a Service


Products, People, Processes: The 3 P’s of SAP Performance Testing In March 2016, we published a blog article SAP Performance Testing is Part Art Part ...

Jul 13 | Linh Nguyen

What I Learned Completing 3 SAP HANA Certification Exams in 10 Days


It's been 4 weeks since I last published a blog, and I wanted to assure you I have not been slacking off. Although, understandably summer is here and ...

Jul 7 | Linh Nguyen

Wanna Monitor HANA?


More than a year after we initially published our HANA Monitoring Blog, it looks like many more customers have started their HANA journey and ...

Jun 8 | Linh Nguyen

Centralized SAP SLT and RFC Connection Monitoring


SAP's digital core is rarely one single system but an Ecosystem comprising many essential connections and data exchanges that require availability ...

Jun 1 | Linh Nguyen

BusinessObjects Monitoring is Tricky but These Resources Should Help


SAP BI 4.2 is out, and supporting more platforms like Linux and databases including HANA. If you're already feeling behind on BusinessObjects ...

May 26 | Linh Nguyen

Monitoring SAP Background Jobs


See our latest leap: End-to-End SAP Job Monitoring and Management Job Monitoring in SAP is probably as old of an issue as monitoring SAP itself! See ...

May 18 | David Stavisski

Solve the SAP Workload Monitoring Challenge


Do you often get questions from the SAP Basis team along the lines of: What was running on the system during that time? Who was running that problem ...

May 12 | Linh Nguyen

Busting the SAP Monitoring Myths and Automating Health Checks


In this publication and recorded webinar, we debunk the common myths about Availability, Performance, and Alerts Management to help crunch the math ...

May 5 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Checklist is Old School


We kicked off the webinar series by demonstrating the power of IT process automation, eliminating the need for manual SAP Basis Checklists. We all ...

Apr 27 | Linh Nguyen

Mastering SAP Monitoring WITHOUT SAP CCMS or SolMan


We are excited to announce a new Webinar series over the next several months focusing on a very comprehensive set of topics about SAP Monitoring for ...

Apr 21 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Testing is Part Art Part Science


See our recent SAP Performance Testing as a Service announcement Achieving and maintaining good SAP Performance is no accident. Customers spend ...

Mar 16 | Linh Nguyen

If you like SAP Performance Charts...


They say "A picture is worth a thousand words", when it comes to SAP Performance management, or any performance management for that matter, I tend to ...

Mar 2 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Monitoring features SLT Monitoring


UPDATE: For the latest update and webinar recording, visit Centralized SAP SLT and RFC Connection Monitoring publication. I'm glad to be finally back ...

Feb 24 | Linh Nguyen

Crucial SAP Performance Monitoring Tips for Upgrades and Migrations


I'm writing this week's blog from the trenches on the front line of an SAP Upgrade & Migration project at a very large customer site about to go ...

Feb 11 | Linh Nguyen

What do The Super Bowl 50 and SAP Performance have in common?


There's a lot of excitement going on right now in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley about the historic 50th Anniversary Super Bowl ...

Feb 4 | Linh Nguyen

What to Monitor when you are Not Monitoring SAP


SAP Basis folks often frown upon the task of SAP monitoring. I'll gladly admit that it's not a glamorous task and is normally laborious, especially ...

Jan 28 | Linh Nguyen

SAP RFC Connection Monitoring


Typically, an SAP Production system has many customer defined RFC connections to partner systems and TCP/IP interfaces. These interfaces are critical ...

Jan 15 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Workload Monitoring


SAP performance management includes workload monitoring on top of resource utilization. As simple as workload monitoring sounds, today still not many ...

Dec 16 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis System Health Check


Have you gotten much out of the SAP Earlywatch reports lately or has it taken a lot of time to maintain all the Solution Manager tools and plugins ...

Dec 2 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis, Let's Automate IT (Topic 4: Cross-platform Process Flows)


Have you seen this BBC article in September 2015 "Will a Robot take over your Job?"? The first thing I did when I read it was I immediately checked ...

Nov 18 | Linh Nguyen

SAP on AWS


Only a few years ago when a couple of IT-Conductor founders approached SAP customers about our cloud-based SAP monitoring and performance management ...

Nov 11 | Linh Nguyen

Waiting for SAP Solution Manager 7.2?


A pulse check with our SAP subscribers to see if they have implemented SAP Solution Manager 7.1 technical monitoring or if are folks still waiting ...

Nov 11 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis, Let's Automate IT (Topic 3: Automated Operations)


Why does something do things manually if it can be automated? Nowadays almost everyone has a smartphone, some have started to use smartwatches, and a ...

Nov 4 | Linh Nguyen

The 4 P's of Automation


Is there any correlation between doing a Startup right, perfecting a pitch presentation, and Application Performance Management (APM)? Yes, when ...

Oct 28 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis, Let's Automate IT (Topic 2: Visual Root-cause Analysis)


When it comes to complex enterprise systems management, there is not a shortage of data, so finding useful and actionable information, what we call ...

Oct 20 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis, Let's Automate IT (Topic 1: On-demand Performance Report)


We're going to start a series of SAP Basis Automation topics aimed at common SAP performance and operations tasks that can and should be automated. ...

Oct 15 | Linh Nguyen

SAP BOBJ Performance Best Practice


Just because it's analytical and not transactional doesn't mean it's not a core part of service delivery. As a leading Business Intelligence and ...

Sep 30 | Linh Nguyen

HANA Monitoring Multi-tenancy


It's complicated. Have you tried monitoring your HANA multi-tenant environment? It's harder than it sounds. In prior posts, we wrote about: ...

Sep 17 | Linh Nguyen

10 Ways to Better Application-Centric Service Management


Many IT organizations suffer from the nagging problems of Availability and Performance Management. For customers with enterprise applications such as ...

Aug 31 | Linh Nguyen

SAP SolMan Technical Monitoring of BOBJ BI 4.0 - Part 1 of 3


A common SAP technology stack for Business Intelligence that we've come across in the field has been SAP Business Warehouse (BW) backend as the ...

Aug 21 | Linh Nguyen

SAP MAI has gone MIA


Getting lost in the DSO, Info packages, Infocubes, and the Aggregation? Yes, SAP Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) has made SAP alerts ...

Aug 18 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Automation with SID-Refresh™


UPDATE: As of February 2018, we have superseded this Windows-only version with a Java version for all SAP platforms on Windows/Linux/Unix. It is ...

Aug 12 | Linh Nguyen

What's Up with SAP HANA Multi-tenancy?


UPDATE 9/16/2015: HANA Monitoring Multi-tenancy Environment On June 23, 2015, I attended the SAP HANA Operations Summit at SAP Labs in Palo Alto and ...

Jul 15 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Best Practices for Implementation, Upgrade & Migration


UPDATE: See our recent SAP Performance Testing as a Service announcement. Optimizing SAP performance of the newly implemented, upgraded, or migrated ...

Jun 25 | Linh Nguyen

How to Troubleshoot with Time-Synchronized Performance Intelligence


Users call and escalate about how bad their performance is and the team scrambles to troubleshoot for the root cause, but the subject matter experts ...

Jun 9 | Linh Nguyen

SAP ASE (Sybase) Availability and Performance Monitoring


More and more SAP customers have been migrating their databases to SAP ASE (formerly Sybase), which raised the need to monitor and manage ASE's ...

May 7 | Linh Nguyen

Monitor SAP Performance WITHOUT Solution Manager


We've often heard that "If it sounds too good to be true, then it must not be true!". This conventional wisdom serves us most of the time, but every ...

May 4 | Linh Nguyen

SAP SolMan Monitoring of BOBJ - Part 3 of 3 (Managed System)


In this last part, we will hook up the 2 components of an SAP BOBJ BI 4.0 environment to the SAP Solution Manager, using Managed System configuration ...

Apr 22 | Linh Nguyen

SAP SolMan Monitoring of BOBJ - Part 2 of 3 (Auto-Configure)


Continuing after installing the SAP Diagnostics Agent on the BI 4.0 system, we will use the AC (Auto-Configure) tool to step through the setup of SAP ...

Apr 15 | Linh Nguyen

Monitoring HANA Availability & Performance with Synthetic Transactions


The best way to check the availability and performance of any application or database is to actually log in and run something, in this case, a ...

Apr 7 | Linh Nguyen

Migrating HANA to Embedded Statistics Service


Memory consumption by the hdbstatisticsserver can be heavily impacted by the volume and frequency of various statistics collected by the HANA ...

Mar 31 | Linh Nguyen

HanaHaus Hangout for Startups and Innovation


When you're working in an early-stage tech startup, it can feel like you're stuck inside a box trying to get a million things done on a tiny or ...

Mar 18 | Linh Nguyen

BASIS or BASICS?


SAP has had a pretty catchy new spin since 2014 with the slogan “Run Simple”, it well maybe for the business and end-users, but as far as the Basis ...

Mar 3 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Service Level Management


As far back as I can remember, and that's more than 20 years working in SAP Basis, since the days of R/3, there's always been this 2-second average ...

Feb 24 | Linh Nguyen

SAP HANA Volumes Space Monitoring


How useful is space monitoring of HANA volumes? After all, isn't the data very compressed in memory and the space consumed on the volume should be ...

Feb 17 | Linh Nguyen

Netweaver on HANA Monitoring Setup (Part 3)


This week we finally see the results of all the work we put into Solution Manager 7.1 from system preparation through to technical monitoring. ...

Feb 9 | Linh Nguyen

Netweaver on HANA Monitoring Setup (Part 2)


In Netweaver on HANA Monitoring Setup Part 1 of 3 (Preparation) steps were performed to allow the Solution Manager and the Managed System to ...

Feb 2 | Linh Nguyen

Netweaver on HANA Monitoring Setup (Part 1)


I mentioned in the prior post (SAP Solution Manager Technical Monitoring) about the effort of installation, patching, and configuration before one ...

Jan 26 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Solution Manager Technical Monitoring


Over the last week, we've been busy updating our SAP Solution Manager 7.1 from SPS11 to SPS12. It doesn't sound like much but as usual, we found so ...

Jan 21 | Linh Nguyen

Is Your SAP HANA Highly Available?


Pull out your SAP HANA Technical Operations Manual for the latest SPS09 release and you will find section 2.4 about Monitoring the SAP HANA Database, ...

Jan 13 | Linh Nguyen

Thoughts on SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM)


A few years ago, I was able to install and take test drive of SAP ACC (Adaptive Computing Controller) when it was version 1.0, and the idea was quite ...

Jan 5 | Linh Nguyen

IT-Conductor is an SAP HANA Validated Startup


It took our team nearly 6 months until we were officially validated by SAP as running on SAP HANA. It was just in time for us to be represented at ...

Dec 23 | itconductor