ANOW!® Automate

ANOW!® can be connected to any data source and third-party services, applications and critical systems. You can choose from over 450 out-of-the-box integrations or build your own connectors with all types of technologies, including cloud services, databases, SAP, ERP and many other platforms.

The ANOW!® user interface is web-browser-based with no additional plugins required. Supported browsers include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.

Both the software and the development process of ANOW!® comply with leading industry standards: GDPR, ISO27001, SOX, SOC 2 and PCI DSS.

We offer fair and transparent licensing options that will enable you to achieve the best cost-deployment efficiency: You can choose between flexible SaaS or on-prem models, with service maintenance and subscription fees adapted to your required support levels. For detailed information, please reach out to our Sales Team.

Our architecture ensures data processing and storage adhere strictly to EU regulations like GDPR, with local support and implementation partners in DACH, Benelux & Nordics. ANOW! Automate provides built-in governance, detailed audit logs, and disaster recovery configurations to meet international standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2, ensuring regulatory peace of mind.

ANOW! Automate is designed for seamless, no-rip-and-replace integration. It offers over 450 native connectors for major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), mainframes (z/OS), ERP, and ETL tools, plus an 'Infinite Integrations' module for custom connections. This ensures unified visibility and control across your entire hybrid IT estate.

Our approach prioritizes a phased rollout, allowing you to integrate ANOW! Automate incrementally without operational disruption. We ensure coexistence with your current tools and protect existing investments, facilitating a smooth transition with minimal risk and ensuring continuous business operations.

Cloud Orchestration refers to the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex computer systems, middleware, and services across various cloud environments. It enables enterprises to streamline workflows, optimize resource utilization, and ensure consistent service delivery across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, moving beyond simple automation to intelligent, event-driven control.

ANOW! Automate offers over 500 out-of-the-box integrations across cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises systems, mainframe (z/OS), SAP, and other enterprise applications. Our flexible architecture and OpenTelemetry-native observability ensure seamless connectivity, unified control, and real-time visibility across your entire hybrid environment.

ANOW! Automate enables you to modernize SAP operations without replacing the job definitions that already support your business. Existing SAP jobs can remain in place while ANOW! provides an enterprise orchestration layer for coordinating dependencies, applying consistent governance, improving operational visibility, and protecting service-level commitments across SAP and non-SAP processes.

Integration through SAP-supported interfaces lets organizations introduce orchestration incrementally, preserving existing investments and operational continuity instead of undertaking a disruptive rip-and-replace project.

ANOW! Automate extends orchestration beyond individual SAP background jobs to coordinate broader operational workflows, including SAP BW process chains, dependencies, event-driven activities, and processes that span SAP and non-SAP systems.

This allows SAP activities to participate in end-to-end enterprise workflows governed through a common orchestration model. Operations teams gain greater visibility into dependencies, exceptions, and service impacts instead of managing each SAP process in isolation.

ANOW! can therefore complement SAP-native execution while providing the cross-platform coordination required for hybrid enterprise operations.

ANOW! Automate reduces the need for custom workflow scripting by providing visual, low-code workflow design and reusable orchestration capabilities. This enables appropriately authorized operations and automation teams to create and maintain many workflows without developing custom ABAP programs.

SAP specialists may still be involved where processes require SAP-specific configuration, security, interfaces, or application expertise. The objective is not to eliminate SAP expertise, but to apply it where it adds the greatest value while making day-to-day workflow orchestration more accessible, standardized, and governable.

ANOW! approaches migration as a phased modernization program rather than a one-time scheduler replacement. Existing automation can continue operating while workflows are assessed, prioritized, migrated, validated, and progressively incorporated into a broader enterprise orchestration model.

This coexistence approach protects operational continuity, reduces transition risk, and avoids a disruptive “big bang” cutover. It also creates an opportunity to improve workflow design, governance, observability, and integration instead of simply recreating legacy definitions on a different platform.

The target outcome is not merely a new scheduler. It is a more open, governed, observable, and adaptable operating model for enterprise automation.

ANOW! treats automation workflows as governed enterprise assets, not simply jobs created and maintained through an administrative UI. Visual workflow design provides an accessible development experience, while APIs and integration capabilities let organizations incorporate workflow deployment, promotion, and lifecycle management into established engineering and operational processes.

This approach enables automation teams to adopt DevOps-style delivery practices without sacrificing enterprise governance, including separation of development and production responsibilities, controlled movement between environments, approvals, change control, and auditability. It provides the governance needed for production automation while letting delivery processes integrate with the organization's broader tooling and operating model.

ANOW! treats AI as an enhancement to governed enterprise orchestration rather than as an uncontrolled execution mechanism. AI-assisted recommendations and actions operate within defined workflows, permissions, approval policies, and audit controls.

The platform records workflow execution and operational activity so teams can investigate what action occurred, what workflow and policy governed it, and what operational context was available. Where a process requires recovery, the response is implemented through defined exception handling, recovery workflows, retries, compensating actions, or human intervention appropriate to that process.

ANOW! applies AI and agentic capabilities within a governed enterprise orchestration model. Organizations determine which activities may be automated, which recommendations require review, and which actions must pass through an approval process before execution.

This allows autonomy to be introduced selectively, based on operational risk, policy, and business criticality. Human oversight, role-based controls, approvals, and auditability remain part of the operating model, helping organizations gain the benefits of intelligent operations without surrendering operational control.

ANOW! complements cloud-native and infrastructure automation tools by coordinating them as part of end-to-end enterprise workflows. AWS Step Functions, Azure Automation, Terraform, Kubernetes, and similar domain tools can continue performing the activities for which they were designed, while ANOW! provides cross-platform orchestration, dependency coordination, governance, operational visibility, and exception handling.

This creates a consistent operating model across cloud services, enterprise applications, and existing infrastructure without requiring organizations to replace their specialist tools. The result is hybrid orchestration across technology domains rather than another isolated automation silo.

ANOW! Observe’s workflow-centric observability provides operational context across the orchestrated process instead of limiting visibility to an individual infrastructure component.