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Security KPI Dashboards for SAP Operations Teams

An Avantra SAP security dashboard gives SAP operations teams one view of SAP security KPIs, covering SAP Notes and HotNews status, system hardening, user access risk, and audit compliance across on-premises, hyperscaler, and RISE with SAP systems. Security teams have their own tools: a SIEM, a SOC console, vulnerability scanners. SAP operations teams usually don’t.
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From Zero to Managed in Record Time

If you've spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the "Configuration Tax." It's that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new systems or integrations are brought under observability and management. For years, the industry accepted that observability required a heavy initial lift. Changes in monitoring policy or underlying infrastructure triggered additional effort often parallel and size and scope to initial onboarding.
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Collective IQ Business: meet the artificial intelligence that transforms IT management

The employee digital experience (DEX) is no longer just a concept; it has become a concrete discipline supported by specialized tools. At the center of this transformation is Collective IQ, Almaden's DEX solution, available in the Essential and Business editions. The Business edition includes AlmaAI a family of generative AI capabilities that take IT management to a new level. These capabilities allow IT administrators to simplify their analysis and faultdetection processes, providing everything from daily prioritization to predictive analytics and naturallanguage interaction.

Cycle and Cherry Servers Webinar: Sovereign Bare Metal with Cloud Simplicity

Cycle teamed up with bare metal service provider Cherry Servers to discuss how rising political tension and controversy involving the United States is pushing many European organisations to take a closer look at where their data is hosted and handled. Many companies have been forced to look into alternative options to ensure their data is not hosted in or accessible by anyone outside of Europe.

Models Are Getting Really Good At Git

I built GitBench because I was curious about how well models did git things. It turns out that it was a good idea because some models will surprise you. Some of the frontier models were remarkably bad and some cheap open models punched above their weight class. But, as they say, “the times they are a changin’”. Before I go too deep into the latest results, you may want to read up on GitBench and what it is and why I built it in the previous blog post.

AI Hacked Hugging Face. The Paperclip Experiment Explains Why?

The “paperclip maximizer” was supposed to be a thought experiment about what could happen if AI relentlessly pursued a goal without understanding the consequences. Then Hugging Face showed us what that can look like in the real world. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam explains the famous AI paperclip maximizer thought experiment and connects it to what happened when an AI system needed more resources and found a way to get them.

EU AI Act 2026: delay, new deadlines & article 73 reporting

On July 27, 2026, the Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force and rewrote the EU AI Act's timeline. The high-risk obligations that were due to apply on August 2, 2026, including Article 73 serious-incident reporting, now apply from December 2, 2027 for standalone high-risk systems (Annex III) and August 2, 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products (Annex I). Not everything moved.