A single foundation for building and operating automation services at scale, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers the tools and capabilities you need to streamline operation of your SAP S/4HANA® environment, all at your own pace. It combines a simple, easy-to-read automation language with a trusted, composable execution environment and security-focused sharing and collaboration capabilities.
Ansible Automation Platform helps you automate all aspects of your SAP and IT infrastructure, from servers and network devices to operating systems, applications, and security. It connects your existing tools and processes with a common language through modules, playbooks, plugins, and roles, and also provides SAP-specific content that you can build into automation playbooks.
The agentless architecture lets you easily introduce automation into your existing infrastructure, while user-friendly tooling helps you create, optimize, and maintain your automation content.
Accelerate infrastructure operations
Automating operations with Ansible Automation Platform streamlines both SAP and non-SAP IT management. It allows you to automate individual tasks—as well as entire workflows—to reduce time spent on manual work, speed up resource delivery, and rapidly adapt to market and vendor changes. You can create predictable and repeatable processes for managing configurations across SAP and non-SAP systems to improve consistency.
As a result, organizations that use Ansible Automation Platform can increase their agility, becoming 68% faster to deploy new compute resources.1
Boost productivity and efficiency
IT teams can operate more efficiently by automating with Ansible Automation Platform. Automating common infrastructure, application, and network management tasks—like provisioning, patching, and configuration—can free staff to focus on strategic initiatives and high-value tasks.
In fact, organizations that use Ansible Automation Platform experience 36% development team productivity gains and a 38% increase in network management team efficiencies.1
Increase reliability and availability
Ansible Automation Platform can help you increase the reliability and availability of both your SAP and non-SAP services, through capabilities that allow you to:
- Create automation content to consistently build and deploy SAP-certified systems when expanding your environment or replacing nodes.
- Accelerate recovery from incidents with automated failover and backup processes.
On average, organizations that use Ansible Automation Platform experience 46% fewer unplanned outages and reduce unplanned downtime by 61%.1
Improve security and compliance
Ansible Automation Platform can help you improve security and compliance across your entire organization, by allowing you to:
- Automate patching processes to update systems and applications quickly and more easily.
- Apply and enforce policies across your entire SAP and non-SAP environment, without manual intervention.
- Monitor for vulnerabilities and respond more quickly to security threats using automation.
These capabilities not only help strengthen your security focus, but also unlock greater efficiencies. Organizations that use Ansible Automation Platform can reduce the time required for security-related activities by 27%.1
Proactively remediate issues
An Ansible Automation Platform subscription includes Event-Driven Ansible, an event-driven automation solution to help you dynamically respond to and remediate issues in your SAP environment.
Event-Driven Ansible uses Ansible Rulebooks, which provide conditional instructions for which actions should take place when a specific event occurs, to automatically recognize an event and execute the appropriate, predefined action. It lets your SAP domain experts create fully automated scenarios for use cases across your IT and SAP environment, which:
- Frees staff from time spent on low-value tasks.
- Helps you proactively remediate issues, improving time to resolution and reducing downtime.
- Codifies your team’s expertise, minimizing human error.
Democratize automation
Ansible Automation Platform also includes Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, a generative AI service that helps teams of all experience levels efficiently create and maintain Ansible Automation Platform content.
Ansible Lightspeed lets users generate code content by accepting natural language, plain text prompts, and then interacting with IBM watsonx foundation models to produce code recommendations that are built on Ansible best practices.
This allows your teams to convert their subject matter expertise into trusted, reliable Ansible code that can be used to support your SAP and IT infrastructure, regardless of their experience level.
Extend capabilities with partner solutions
When you adopt Red Hat solutions, you get access to the Red Hat Partner Ecosystem—an extensive network of trusted Red Hat partners offering technologies that integrate with and complement Red Hat products, including Ansible Automation Platform.
These hardware and software solutions help maximize your Ansible Automation Platform investment by extending or enhancing your automation capabilities to support your SAP environment.
Integrate with other Red Hat solutions for SAP
The Red Hat and SAP partnership goes back more than a quarter century. Red Hat offers a portfolio of solutions that help organizations using SAP optimize their SAP environments and operations, and prepare for future innovation.
Ansible Automation Platform integrates with these solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux® for SAP Solutions, so you can build automation at scale and with confidence, and benefit from a consistent experience to streamline and accelerate your SAP operations.
Take advantage of collaborative engineering and streamlined support
As part of their longstanding partnership, Red Hat and SAP are continuously collaborating, which means joint customers can feel confident that Red Hat solutions are designed to support their SAP landscape.
Red Hat and SAP engineers work alongside each other in the SAP LinuxLab—an open source community environment in which SAP and SAP partners collaborate to address their joint customers’ needs—to make sure that SAP solutions are tested, validated, and supported on Red Hat platforms.
Red Hat and SAP customer support ticketing systems are integrated, giving you a single point of contact for support issues and streamlined resolution of incidents.
