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Blackdog CloudRun SAP leaner. Keep it secure.

Independent advice. Expert SAP operations. Always-on protection.

WorldITCOE's independent SAP strategy, combined with Blackdog Cloud's SAP support and hosting, Predict monitoring, legacy decommissioning and Arctic Wolf®-powered threat detection — so your SAP core stays stable, secure and cost-efficient while you decide what comes next.

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Published by Blackdog Cloud
Founded
2019
By Rob Ashby and Jon Walsh
ERP experience
30 yrs
Managing complex ERP landscapes
Predict markers
200+
Early-warning markers as standard
Threat monitoring
24×7
With the Arctic Wolf® Concierge Security Team®
SAP savings
25%+
Minimum reduction predicted by Blackdog's calculator*

Figures as published by Blackdog Cloud Technologies at blackdogcloud.com (accessed November 2026). *The SAP Savings Calculator is illustrative; actual savings vary by customer. WorldITCOE is an independent company and a channel partner of Blackdog Cloud.

Introducing

Blackdog Cloud TechnologiesStrategic IT support, without the red tape.

Blackdog Cloud helps organisations transform their applications, databases and infrastructure — specialising in mission-critical systems like SAP. Its team brings 30 years of experience running complex ERP landscapes, and a clear view of what good looks like and how to get there.

Alongside WorldITCOE's independent SAP advisory, Blackdog gives you a hands-on operator: support and hosting wherever SAP runs, proactive monitoring, legacy decommissioning and cyber resilience — delivered with full transparency, so decisions are made on clear information.

IndependentOptions and clear guidance, not a single-vendor agenda.
Customer-focusedBuilt around your processes, never one-size-fits-all.
TrustworthyCommitted to protecting your interests, uncompromised.
At a glance
Founded 2019By industry experts Rob Ashby and Jon Walsh.
SAP partnerOffers services in the SAP Cloud, hosts in the Blackdog Data Centre, and works with the hyperscalers.
Predict included as standardBlackdog's own monitoring software comes with its SAP support offering.
Arctic Wolf® partner24×7 detection and response from a cloud-native security platform.
Legacy specialistsDecommissioning and virtualisation with Proceed, SDD Group and Stromasys.

What Blackdog Cloud brings

Full-circle SAP operations — and the security around them

Six services that keep your SAP landscape stable, fast and protected, whether it runs on-premise, in any cloud, or in Blackdog's private cloud.

SAP Support & Hosting

Expert support wherever SAP runs — with resilient hosting, redundancy and rapid-response teams behind it.

  • On-premise, any cloud or private cloud
  • Troubleshooting, tuning and upgrades
  • Predict monitoring as standard

SAP Optimisation

In-depth assessments that align SAP with your business goals — lifting productivity and cutting operating cost.

  • Remove redundancies
  • Improve process flows
  • Customised SAP tuning

Monitoring & Automation

Blackdog Predict watches infrastructure and applications in real time and warns you before disruption hits.

  • 200+ early-warning markers
  • SAP, HANA and non-SAP systems
  • Clear candidates for automation

Cyber Threat Detection & Response

Round-the-clock protection with Arctic Wolf®, tailored to your specific cyber risks.

  • 24×7 monitoring and response
  • Continuous vulnerability scanning
  • Risk management and compliance

Legacy Decommissioning

Switch off ageing systems without losing access to the data you're required to keep.

  • Data integrity throughout
  • Legacy data served back securely
  • Cost-benefit analysis up front

SAP Savings Calculator

Find out where your SAP spend can come down — then walk through the numbers with the team.

  • Review of your current SAP costs
  • Savings opportunities identified
  • Examples from comparable clients

Blackdog Predict

Monitoring that warns you before it breaks

Think of it as antivirus for operations: instead of virus definitions, Predict looks for issue definitions — "markers" in tables, applications and logs — around the clock. And it gets smarter by embedding knowledge from four sources.

1
Root causesKnown issues, where their alerts appear, and the messages they produce.
2
Your team's know-howThe early-warning signs your people already recognise every day.
3
Your existing fixesSolutions you use today, organised in the Predict repository.
4
The communityExperience from other customers running similar technology.
Predict · marker feedMonitoring
Spike in failed loginsERP-PRD · 48 attempts in 5 min
Escalated
Change outside approved windowQAS · transport imported 02:14
Review
Nightly CRM backup failedCRM · job BKP_NIGHTLY
Alert sent
HANA memory usageHDB-PRD · 71% of allocation
OK
Firewall healthEDGE-01 · all rules loaded
OK
Illustrative example — not live data200+ markers as standard
SAP & HANAInstance availability, memory usage and user activity.
Security signalsLocked accounts, login spikes, network connections and firewall health.
InfrastructureDisk space, CPU, application errors and database health.
Change & complianceUnauthorised changes, compliance breaches and performance drift — compared against history.

Your SAP path

Three paths. One team to run them.

WorldITCOE helps you choose between staying, bridging or transforming. Blackdog Cloud keeps the landscape running — and secure — whichever you pick.

01

Stay & Optimize

Continue on SAP ECC or S/4HANA on-premise — and make it cheaper, faster and safer to run.

WorldITCOE
Support strategy, economics and an independent roadmap view.
Blackdog Cloud
SAP support, hosting choices, optimisation and Predict monitoring.
02

Bridge & Prepare

Keep the core stable while you simplify the landscape and harden it for what comes next.

WorldITCOE
Readiness assessment and a business case for change.
Blackdog Cloud
Legacy decommissioning, archiving and Arctic Wolf® cyber resilience.
03

Transform

Move platform if — and when — readiness, economics and the business case justify it.

WorldITCOE
Independent advice on whether, when and where to move.
Blackdog Cloud
Hosting in the SAP Cloud, Blackdog's data centre or a hyperscaler.
Assess→Stabilise→Optimise→Secure→Retire legacy→Transform — if and when ready

Legacy & cyber resilience

Retire what you don't need. Protect what you do.

Ageing systems drain budget and widen your attack surface. Blackdog tackles both sides — decommissioning legacy safely, and defending everything that's left.

Decommissioning of legacy systems

Switch it off. Keep the data.

Move legacy data to a secure platform so you can still reach critical records and processes — without paying to maintain old hardware, licences and specialist skills.

Assess→Migrate data→Verify integrity→Serve back→Switch off
  • Robust migration that puts data integrity first
  • Planning, execution and support through the transition
  • A cost-benefit analysis of the long-term savings
Proceed GroupSAP archiving & decommissioning — 900+ projects
SDD GroupHistorical data kept securely available
StromasysLegacy virtualisation — VAX, Alpha, SPARC

Cyber threat detection & response

Always-on, with Arctic Wolf®

Blackdog combines its own security know-how with the cloud-native Arctic Wolf® Platform to build protection around your specific risks — so you can grow without fear of the next attack.

  • 24×7 monitoring by the Concierge Security Team®
  • Continuous vulnerability scanning
  • Dynamic risk management
  • Support for compliance with industry standards
  • Protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data
DetectThreats spotted around the clock
RespondExpert-led action, fast
HardenFewer gaps over time

Partner ecosystem

Built with specialists

Blackdog Cloud works with leaders in SAP, security, data management and infrastructure — so each part of your landscape gets the right expertise.

SAPSAP Cloud partner
Arctic Wolf®Security operations
Proceed GroupSAP data management
SDD GroupLegacy data retention
StromasysLegacy virtualisation
Grey MonarchSpecialist IT services
Hewlett PackardInfrastructure
DellInfrastructure
VirtustreamEnterprise cloud

Sister centers of excellence

Go further with WorldITCOE

Keep your SAP core on your timeline, then put clean data and production AI on top of it.

SAP Center of Excellence

Keep your SAP core. Keep control.

Extend your SAP ECC or S/4HANA investment, modernize around it, and change platform if — and when — it's right for your business.

Explore SAP support
Data & AI Center of Excellence

Trusted data. Intelligent solutions.

Turn data into a strategic advantage with 33 production-ready AI/ML solutions, delivered with WorldITCOE's partner TekDataNova.

Explore Data & AI

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Tell us where your SAP runs today.

A 30-minute discussion with WorldITCOE and Blackdog Cloud. We'll look at how your landscape is supported, hosted and protected — and tell you plainly where the quickest wins are.

  • A clear view of your current support and hosting costs
  • Where optimisation or decommissioning could save money
  • Gaps in monitoring and cyber protection
  • No obligation, and no pitch deck

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