| 10:00 - 11:00 |
No successful SAP modernization journey without Automation
Belkacem Moussouni, Go-to-Market lead, Automation, EMEA, Red Hat
No matter the complexity of your environment or where you are on your IT modernization journey, an automation strategy at scale will improve existing processes so you can save time, accelerate innovation, improve employee satisfaction, and reduce costs throughout your organizations. For SAP customers this is even more relevant as they need to modernize their infrastructure and application landscape by 2027.
Most analysts have stated that the new norm to be successful is a hybrid cloud world. Organizations need to adopt a more integrated and comprehensive approach for managing mission critical platforms and applications such as SAP across diverse environments. Red Hat’s market leading Ansible Automation Platform is at the heart of these capabilities, as we are going to see throughout that event... |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
SAP on Azure automation - automating and managing SAP workloads on Azure
Pankaj Meshram, Cloud Solution Architect, SAP on Azure, Microsoft
Pras Abey, SAP Business Development, UKI, Red Hat
As enterprises move to SAP S/4HANA while also shifting to Microsoft Azure, automation is essential to realise the benefits of both platforms. Red Hat and Microsoft will showcase the joint SAP on Azure automation proposition that completely automates SAP deployment and operations on Azure using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. With this end-to-end automation solution, customers can maximise the performance of their SAP investment on Azure while drastically reducing operational costs. This automation solution will also cut deployment time of your SAP system from days to a few hours. |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
IDC case to calculate the value of Automation
Rune Stenbaek, SAP Business Development, Nordics, Red Hat
Automation with Red Hat Ansible, deilvers value on a number of key areas within an organisation. Cost/efficiency, reduction of risk and the ability to monitor/manage the contribution Automation provides. The Cost element can however be a hard one to get your hands arround before actually implementing the solution.
Red Hat has together with IDC done an analyse from actual customers, on the impact automation really brings. In this session we will try to illustrate some of the results and the numbers behind the very impressive calculation. In the end maybe inspire such a analysis be done within your own organisation? |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Break
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Using Ansible to automate SAP workloads on Public Cloud - how we did it with our customers
Ben Lingwood, Chief Innovation Officer & Global Alliances, Lemongrass
Pras Abey, SAP Business Development, UKI, Red Hat
Real examples are something which will tell much more than any long stories and description of technical details. Ben Lingwood from Lemongrass will be talking about a few customer cases where they are using Ansible to automate SAP workloads on Public Cloud. |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
The role of Automation in a customer SAP journey towards S/4HANA and Public cloud
Ben Lingwood, Chief Innovation Officer & Global Alliances, Lemongrass
Martijn Cielen, Co-Founder & Operations Manager at Piros
Thomas Bludau, Head of Competence Center Infrastructure as Code, SVA
Ruud Blommaert, Business Development Manager, SAP BDM BeNeLux & ALPS, Red Hat
Panel discussion were we will get the view of 3 local partners on 3 different statements. Panel discussion with 3 local partners in EMEA, which give their view on the role of Automation in the SAP world today and tomorrow. Discussion will be led by SAP EMEA BDM team member. |
| 12:45 - 13:15 |
Using Red Hat Ansible in relation to SAP - a real demo!
Enrico Guarino, EMEA Senior Solutions Architect SAP, Red Hat
In this demo we will see how the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Ansible provide a complete platform for SAP workloads that is highly automated, simplifying dramatically the management of the SAP hosts during their entire lifecycle. We will look at how Satellite detects missing or outdated components in the servers and applies the right versions, also how Insights with its SAP specific rules can detect potential issues before they happen and how these can be solved automatically with Ansible playbooks before a failure occurs. |
| 13:15 - 13:30 |
How to get started?
Wolfgang Bausch, Senior Manager SAP Business Development, EMEA, Red Hat
You think automation could be of value for you and your company? You want to learn more now without starting a complex project? Then joint this session to understand how to get started start quickly and easily and how Red Hat can help you. |
