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Adsotech News November 2026
New customer
Welcome, Coop Norge
Coop Norge SA has joined the Adsotech customer community and adds to our growing list of retail customers. We were glad to have colleagues from Coop with us at the Nordic User Group in Espoo in September, and we look forward to working together.
News
An update on the PHP vulnerabilities
You may have seen news about two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, software widely used to run web services (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). They could allow attackers to run malicious code on a server without logging in. The PHP development team released security updates on 21 October 2026 and recommends installing them immediately.
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Precisely Automate. Precisely has confirmed that no component of the Automate product suite, including Evolve, Studio, Worker and Studio Manager, uses PHP, so the reported vulnerabilities do not appear to affect these products.
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AboveTARGET. As a precaution, we took AboveTARGET.com offline for about 14 hours to assess the impact on the service and decide on the protective measures needed. The service is back up and running. We apologize for the interruption and thank you for your understanding.
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If you have questions about your own environment, contact Adsotech Support at support@adsotech.com
New Blog post
The can of worms is open: why reactive security no longer holds
In October, cyber security made the front page twice: supermarket fridges across Europe were switched off remotely, and two critical PHP vulnerabilities pushed websites offline. Onni Lindroos looks at why Nordic companies still treat access risk as a question of audit readiness, and why AI agents with real access to finance, procurement and HR systems make that habit expensive.
Automate 26.1.1 is now available
Version 26.1.1 of Automate Studio, Studio Manager and Evolve was released at the beginning of October. The main new feature is support for the latest SAP GUI version, 8.10.
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👉 Read the release notes: Automate Studio · Studio Manager · Evolve
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If you have questions about upgrading, contact Adsotech Support at support@adsotech.com.
Evolve Cloud Essentials: the first customer worldwide is in the Nordics
Evolve Cloud Essentials, the cloud version of Studio Manager from Precisely, now has its first customer worldwide, and it is an Adsotech customer here in the Nordics. We introduced Evolve Cloud Essentials in our August and September newsletters. Seeing a Nordic company be the first to take it into use shows how far our customers are taking SAP automation.
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👉 Read the Evolve Cloud Essentials release notes
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If you would like to know what Evolve Cloud Essentials would mean for your setup, contact us at sales@adsotech.com.
ITSM Connector for SAP: What’s New in Fiori
STA Technologies, the developer of the ITSM Connector for SAP, has shared what has changed for Fiori users.
If you log or work tickets through Fiori, the workflow now looks different in a few concrete ways:
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Screenshots capture themselves. The plugin grabs the screen automatically the moment a ticket is started, no clipboard paste required.
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It runs on SAP Build Work Zone as well as on the on-premise Fiori Launchpad, deployed as a signed MTAR with XSUAA and Cloud Connector support.
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A non-blocking docked panel replaces the old pop-up, so you can keep working while you finish a ticket.
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More context lands on the ticket automatically: screen content (redacted with a rule-based exclusion engine), error messages, console entries, and SU53 authorization checks with automatic role search.
Read the full breakdown in STA Technologies’ LinkedIn article: here
SBN 2026 recap
Data quality as a habit: our talk at SBN 2026
Adsotech took part in the SBN SAP Conference 2026 in Oslo as a silver sponsor, with a stand and a session.
In the session, David Nelson, CEO of Adsotech Scandinavia, spoke about how to move from fixing data issues as they appear to a data quality culture. With so much that could be done, the hard part is knowing where to begin. So we suggested starting small: regular, repeatable steps, such as setting aside a couple of hours each week to clean data. Over time, the effect builds up, and your data is ready for what comes next, including agentic AI.
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The room was full. We also ran a short poll during the session. Of the 14 people who answered, 8 named material master as the SAP data that gives them the most headaches, and 10 are already live on S/4HANA.
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Among the audience, we gave away a copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear, a book built on the same idea: focus on small habits and take the first step.
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Thank you to the SBN organizers, to everyone who stopped by our stand, and to everyone who joined the session.
👉 Read David’s article on LinkedIN
Upcoming conference
Meet us at SAPSA Impuls Stockholm 2026
Our next stop is SAPSA Impuls in Stockholm. Moritz Lang will continue the story from SBN in his session From Ad-Hoc Fixes to Proactive Data Ownership.
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Date/Time: Tuesday 10 November, 13:45 – 14:15 CET
Room: Oscarsalongen
Speaker: Moritz Lang, Key Account Manager, Adsotech
Moritz will show how to replace reactive data fixes with a lightweight, ongoing data quality habit, using Stora Enso’s incremental clean-up approach as the example.
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The session is for people responsible for data quality in SAP: process owners, data owners and stewards, finance and master data managers, and IT leads. The focus is on how data quality work is organized and owned. The session is held in Swedish.​
New report and webinar
Precisely and ASUG report and webinar: 2027 trends in SAP automation and AI
Precisely and ASUG, the Americas SAP Users Group, have published Advancing Automation, AI, and Process Transformation in SAP: 2027 Trends & Challenges, based on a survey of 169 SAP users. Among the findings: 67% are fully or partially live on SAP S/4HANA, and 60% use Microsoft Copilot alongside SAP processes, but only 3% run fully automated AI-driven processes.
Precisely will present the findings in a webinar:​
Webinar: Navigating Complexity in SAP®: 2027 Automation Trends & Challenges
Date/Time: Tuesday 17 November, 18:00 Finnish time (17:00 CET)
Registration: link
Upcoming Training
Advanced Automate Studio training in November
Timo Ylikoski will run a two-day advanced Automate Studio training in Espoo on 18–19 November, in English. It covers advanced features for building more dynamic scripts and is for those who already know the basics.
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👉 Register for the Automate Studio 2-day Advanced Training
We also offer a range of private training opportunities. If you would like a training for your own group, reach out to us at training@adsotech.com.
Help us plan the next Nordic User Group
We have already started planning the next Nordic User Group and want it to reflect what matters to you. The survey takes a few minutes and covers the tools you use, the topics you would like to focus on, and the format that works best for you. Survey link here.
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