New Integrations: Solving the Hybrid IT Puzzle with Universal Automation Center

Enterprise IT environments keep expanding. More cloud providers, more container platforms, more databases, more approval workflows. Every new tool adds another point of disconnection if there's nothing pulling it all together.

This webinar is Nils Buer's walkthrough of the integrations Stonebranch built in the preceding six months — all developed in direct response to customer requests, all available to download from the Stonebranch Integration Hub.

The live demos cover four integration areas. First, Red Hat OpenShift: Nils shows how to configure and run an OpenShift Kubernetes job from UAC using service account authentication, with the job definition YAML sourced from either a local file or a GitHub repository. The continuous delivery demo shows a developer committing a YAML change to GitHub, which fires a webhook to UAC's Universal Monitor, automatically triggering the updated job on OpenShift in real time — no manual intervention, no polling.
Second, ServiceNow self-service: using the UAC service catalog item in ServiceNow, Nils creates an SAP ABAP job with a variant, batch user, and daily schedule — all from a form inside ServiceNow. A Slack approval step is built into the workflow before the job is pushed to the Universal Controller. Once approved, an email confirmation shows the next qualifying run time. The resulting trigger and SAP task appear in UAC automatically, and a live test run confirms the ABAP report executes successfully.

Third, inter-cloud data transfer with observability: the demo benchmarks chunked parallel file streaming — halving transfer time from 18 seconds to 9 seconds by using four parallel streams on a large file, and cutting a multi-file transfer from 20 seconds to 5 seconds with eleven parallel threads. Nils then shows the integration-specific Grafana dashboard, which displays transfer counts, average speeds, task instance history, OMS server status, and license utilization — all collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus with Jaeger trace data linked directly from the UAC activity monitor.

Fourth, Azure Synapse: the new task starts a Synapse pipeline containing machine learning notebooks, monitors it through completion, and supports restart from a specific notebook step on failure. Nils walks through the full Azure data pattern — Inter-Cloud Data Transfer to ingest, Azure Data Factory to prepare, Azure Synapse to process, and Power BI to publish — all orchestrated from UAC.

The session also covers new and updated integrations across Oracle EBS (CONCSUB requests), Oracle Scheduler, SAP IBP and Data Services on BTP, SAP HANA XSA jobs, generic SQL ODBC for any ODBC-compatible database, Azure DevOps Cloud and BitBucket for jobs-as-code, Azure CLI, GPG/GnuPG file encryption and signature verification, AWS Lambda and Batch, and Jira Service Management.

Key Highlights

OpenShift Kubernetes jobs: run and monitor jobs from UAC with OC CLI bundled in the integration — no separate install
GitHub webhook-triggered Kubernetes job deployment via CD pipeline
ServiceNow service catalog: create and schedule SAP ABAP jobs from ServiceNow with Slack approval gate
Inter-cloud file transfer: parallel chunking cuts large file transfer time by 50%+
Grafana observability dashboard: metrics, traces, transfer stats, and license usage via OpenTelemetry
Azure Synapse pipeline orchestration with notebook-level restart on failure
New Oracle EBS, Oracle Scheduler, SAP BTP IBP, SAP HANA XSA, SQL ODBC, Azure DevOps, and GPG integrations
All integrations available on the Stonebranch Integration Hub

About the Presenter

Nils Buer, Director of Product Strategy (EMEA), Stonebranch
Nils Buer brings more than 20 years of enterprise IT experience to his work at Stonebranch, with deep expertise in IT automation and orchestration across SAP, cloud platforms, Kubernetes environments, and hybrid IT. Before joining Stonebranch, he held senior leadership roles at Ericsson, SAP, BMC, and Capgemini.