Precisely Automate Enhancements: 7 Reasons to Modernize in 2025

Authors:

Tim Fujita-Yuhas, Vice President, Product Management, Precisely

Andrew Hayden, Product Marketing Manager, Precisely

Key Takeaways:

• Modernizing your Precisely Automate environment ensures compatibility with the latest SAP technologies, supports multiple interfaces like SAP Fiori and GUI for HTML, and enhances efficiency
• Upgrading from legacy systems like Foundation and Studio with Connect boosts security, reduces costs, and unlocks advanced features like AI-powered autocomplete and cloud-hosted solutions.
• REST APIs in Automate Evolve enable seamless end-to-end automation across SAP and other platforms.

If you’re a Precisely Automate user, you already know that the platform simplifies your complex SAP® processes to give you greater speed, agility, and data quality.

But technology is evolving quickly, and staying ahead means adapting to new capabilities. Modernizing your Precisely Automate environment unlocks new possibilities for cross-functional team automation, improves user experiences, and supports your organization’s broader digital transformation goals.

The Precisely team has been automating SAP® processes for over 20 years through our Precisely Automate products  – acquired as part of the Winshuttle acquisition in 2021 – and with these latest updates, you’ll be able to make an even greater impact across your business.

Let’s explore the top seven reasons to modernize your Precisely Automate environment today, with a closer look at Automate Studio and Automate Evolve.

3 Reasons for Automate Studio Modernization

1. Support for multiple SAP user interface (UI) clients – including SAP Fiori and GUI for HTML

As organizations transition from ECC to S/4HANA, the variety of SAP interfaces they support continues to expand. As they migrate from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, many companies experience a mix of traditional SAP GUI, web-based GUI for HTML, and modern SAP Fiori apps to their end users.

Using the latest version of Precisely Automate Studio, customers can now automate these interfaces, allowing you to manage data uploads seamlessly across SAP GUI, SAP GUI for HTML, and SAP UI5 Fiori apps. That means you can automate common tasks without worrying about the technical complexities of different platforms.

These new capabilities preserve Automate Studio’s user-friendly experience, enabling citizen developers on your business teams – not just dedicated developers – to create automation scripts with ease.

Key benefit: Automate processes across all of the modern SAP GUI clients, including the two most common SAP S/4HANA interfaces – Fiori and GUI for HTML – while enhancing performance and error-handling. All of this, with no custom coding required.

2. SAP GUI 8.0 and S/4HANA 2023 Compatibility

When you upgrade your Automate Studio client, you’ll also gain full support for the new 64-bit SAP GUI client in SAP GUI 8.0 and S/4HANA 2023, ensuring seamless compatibility with these modern SAP updates.

Pairing the 64-bit Studio with the 64-bit SAP GUI client and the latest Automatee Function Module delivers the best performance available. This keeps your automation processes running faster with all the lastest Studio features.

Key benefit: Achieve maximum performance and reliability by aligning your automation tools with the latest SAP technologies and system requirements.

3. Studio with Connect EOL (end-of-life)

If you’re still relying on Automate Studio with Connect, the time to act is now – because this legacy product is reaching its end of life this year (2025).

Migrating to its successor, Studio with Studio Administrator, not only ensures ongoing support but also unlocks advanced features, including:

• enhanced security with single sign-on support
• modern localized-language user interfaces
• license administration controls

Don’t wait – start your migration now before the legacy Studio with Connect stops working.

Key benefit: Avoid disruptions and benefit from boosted security, modern UIs, and more.

4 Reasons for Automate Evolve Modernization

Whether you’re solely an Automate Studio user, or an Automate Evolve user already, there are also several reasons to consider choosing and/or modernizing your Automate Evolve environment.

1. Foundation end of life

If you’re using Winshuttle User Governance or Foundation, modernization is critical. Foundation is set to reach its end of life in July 2026, and support for User Governance has already ended.

Without security or defect fixes, these outdated platforms become vulnerable to operational risks and failures due to third-party software changes by SAP and Microsoft.

Modernizing to Automate Evolve eliminates these concerns. It’s designed to work without Microsoft SharePoint, reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO) while offering improved workflow performance and user portals tailored to different teams.

Key benefit: Secure your automation environment with a future-ready platform that’s faster, more reliable, and less costly to maintain.

2. Hosted Evolve to reduce TCO

Cloud-first strategies are becoming the norm, and hosted solutions are at the heart of this transformation. The Precisely-hosted Automate Evolve and Studio Manager reduces the burden on your IT teams while ensuring your automation environment is always up to date.

With hosted Evolve, you’ll also benefit from Precisely’s history of hosting success – resulting in faster time to value. And with a 99.9% uptime service level agreement, you can count on your applications to be reliable and scalable.

Key benefit: Embrace Precisely-hosted Automate Evolve to reduce costs, enhance reliability, and modernize at your own pace with expert support.

3. APIs for end-to-end process automation

Modern automation isn’t limited to your SAP systems. Business processes often span multiple systems, from ERP to CRM platforms like Salesforce. Precisely Automate Evolve supports seamless end-to-end automation with a family of REST APIs, making integration with other systems easier than ever.

Precisely Automate offers three powerful and proven API’s to support your needs:

• SAP Data APIs: Provides direct integration with SAP ERP for scenarios that don’t require data enrichment – it enables fast, secure data automation and lower TCO. Read our blog post to learn more about how to reduce your TCO associated with using RPA bots and these APIs.
• Digital Access APIs: Enables external applications to launch an Automate Evolve workflow – so users can add or update data as part of a complex workflow process before it’s posted to SAP.
• Third-Party API Support: Simplifies integration with other systems that have RESTful APIs, like Salesforce or MDM systems like Precisely EnterWorks, to easily read or update data.

Key Benefit: Streamline complex, multi-system processes with powerful API capabilities that enhance efficiency and flexibility.

4. Intelligent Autocomplete for master data

Even minor master data errors can have major downstream consequences. Our Intelligent Autocomplete feature, available in Evolve, simplifies this process by using a Precisely intelligent algorithm to pre-populate form fields based on historical data and predefined rules.

This functionality significantly reduces manual data entry errors and speeds up master data creation. It’s particularly valuable for material master data but can also be applied to vendor and customer records.

Key Benefit: Leverage AI to improve data quality, reduce errors, and streamline complex data management tasks.

Let’s Start Your Modernization Movement Today

Modernizing your Precisely Automate environment unlocks the full potential of your automation tools to deliver better outcomes for your business.

From supporting new SAP interfaces to embracing the cloud and harnessing AI, these updates position you for success and keep you agile in the face of unexpected disruptions.

To dive deeper into all of the updates and benefits we’ve covered here, and learn how Precisely can help you stay ahead, watch the full webinar on-demand: 7 Reasons to Modernize Your Precisely Automate Environment.