By Trifork Security | 421 words | Read time: 2 minutes
Last month, Splunk made a significant impact at SAP SAPPHIRE in Orlando, where more than 18,000 tech professionals came together to explore the future of enterprise technology.
Splunk used the stage to highlight how its solutions bring deep visibility, robust security, and real-time insights to SAP environments – whether running in the cloud, on-prem, or somewhere in between.
Why Splunk makes a difference for SAP
Two key solutions stood out at Sapphire:
Service Intelligence for SAP (SI for SAP) is a plug‑and‑play feature available through the SAP Store. It integrates seamlessly with Splunk’s IT Service Intelligence and enables predictive health monitoring by combining SAP metrics with infrastructure data. This gives teams a head start on identifying and resolving issues—often up to 40 minutes before a potential outage—and helps them reduce incident response times by as much as 90%.
PowerConnect for SAP enables near real-time ingestion of SAP telemetry into Splunk. With over 1,800 prebuilt use cases, organizations can quickly set up the integration (typically in under an hour) and start seeing measurable gains—such as a 30% reduction in high-priority incidents and a 70% faster mean time to repair.
These solutions allow teams to break down silos between SAP and the rest of their IT stack. They can view SAP application health alongside infrastructure metrics and security alerts, providing a unified operational picture that’s both deep and wide.
Seeing results in the real world
One powerful example is HD Supply, a nationwide MRO distributor. With PowerConnect and Splunk, they gained clear visibility into their SAP environment, enabling better monitoring, faster troubleshooting, and improved data availability for business reporting.
According to David Propst, their Enterprise Architect, Splunk helps them “free up all that data” to proactively monitor systems and get ahead of issues before users notice them.
More than monitoring – a new way to operate
What stood out at Sapphire wasn’t just the technology – it was the way Splunk is changing the relationship between IT, security, and business operations.
By combining observability with cybersecurity capabilities in one platform, Splunk empowers organizations to spot threats, performance issues, and inefficiencies in the same interface.
That means less context-switching, fewer blind spots, and more time spent delivering value. For businesses that rely on SAP, this kind of visibility isn’t a nice-to-have – it’s a necessity.
If you’re ready to go beyond traditional monitoring and into predictive, secure, data-driven management for your SAP landscape, this is the moment to explore what Splunk and SAP together can do.