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Metro Systems and Datavard
About Datavard
• Passion for data since 1998
• Customers across all industries and regions
• (e.g. Allianz, BASF, BHP, Dow Chemicals, Roche, Randstad, Shell, Nestle, Volkswagen)
• More than 200 projects p.a.
Passion Focus GrowthRecognizedExpertise
• SAP data experts
• Development partner ofSAP & AppDynamics
• Leverage through partners: e.g. SAP, Microsoft, Accenture/DXC, AppDynamics (Cisco)
• Privately held
• 200+ employees
• HQ: Datavard AG in Heidelberg (Germany)
• Worldwide operations: USA, Switzerland, Slovakia, Singapore
• Gartner Magic Quadrant 2015
• SAP Recognized Expertise Partner for Landscape Transformation
• TOP 100 Innovator 2016 & 2017
• Inc. 5000 Europe 2017
• SAP Innovation Award Finalist 2018
Partnership with Metro Systems
• What services/software are customers interested in?
• Which are Metro Systems focus topics in 2020?
Metro Systems focus topics for 2020
Datavard portfolio and focus topics for 2020
Portfolio Matrix – Products & Services use cases
Use cases
OutBoard Suite
Glue Insights Validate
Trans-formation
Suite(incl. FT) Service
Managed Service
Data Tiering
DataFridge
House-keeping
What it does Offloading / Archiving RetirementAutomated
CleanupData Integration
Performance Monitoring
Test Automation Data
Transformation
M&A / Divestiture Realization (SLO)
(x)1,3 x3 x1-3 x1-3
Road 2 (S4/B4)HANA (x) 2 (x)2,3,4 (x)2 x1-4 x3 X1-3 x1-3 (x)4
Run SAP smarter (Performance, Ops Automation /
Outsourcing)
x1,3 x1,3 (x)3 x3,4
Data Management (Lifecycle & TCO)
x1,3 (x)1,3 x1,3 (x)1,3 x1 x1 (x)1-3 (x)4
New Analytics x1,3 (x)1,3 (x)1-3 (x)4
Legend: 1 Analysis, PoC, BizCase, 2 Prep, 3 Project, 4 Post GoLive
Datavard portfolio: SAP and Big Data
Datavard is a recognized solution provider that helps SAP customers to integrate the SAP with Big Data platforms.
Datavard solutions are based on SAP ABAP and natively integrated with SAP
SAP Certified | Hadoop certified: Cloudera, MapR, Hortonworks
anyDB | SAP HANA™ | AWS | Azure | GCP
• ETL, Middleware, and Business
Content for SAP and Hadoop
integration
▪ “Copy’n’Paste” of data from SAP to
Hadoop & bi-directional consumption
of data
▪ Industry challenge: How to connect
SAP business data with Big Data
platforms on Hadoop?
▪ Solution: Datavard Glue
Integration of SAP with
Cloud and Big Data
▪ Offloading & Archiving of SAP data
▪ Reduce SAP footprint
▪ Simplify and optimize SAP operations
▪ “Cut’n’Paste” of data from SAP to
Hadoop to reduce the operational TCO
of running SAP systems
▪ Keep data transparently available for
end users
▪ Solution: Datavard OutBoard Suite
SAP Data
Management
▪ Legacy & System decommissioning
▪ Transparent legacy data access for users
▪ Retention rules
▪ Legal Hold
▪ End of life, data destruction
▪ Solution: Datavard DataFridge
Decommissioning
Application Retirement
Business Use Case Gallery | SAP Big Data Integration
Single view on customer Customer360
Clickstream Analytics and predictive modeling with SAP CRM
Customer retention & churn reduction
Predictive maintenance with SAP CO, AA (Asset Accounting) & PM (Plant Maintenance)
Recommendation engine for online stores, integrated with SAP’s MM module
Fraud management & Riskmodelling
SAP connected Data Lake - enabled for Cloud and Analytics
Non-SAP (structured)
Data Offloadcut & paste
Data Transformcopy & paste
Glue™ OutBoard™S/4HANA
ECC/ERP
BW
Modules
SAP Systems
Native (ABAP) Integration
Insights™
Monitortrack & act
Big Data Lake
Move to S/4HANA & Datavard Data Management solutionsCustomer pain points
• Reduce data footprint
before conversion
Tactics for resolution• Housekeeping and archiving
• Keep archiving in S/4HANA
Datavard solutions
• OutBoard Housekeeping
• OutBoard DataTiering
Customer pain points
• Keep historical data for legal reasons and
for read access in the new system
Tactics for resolution• System Decommissioning and make
data available in the new system
• Keep archiving in S/4HANA
Datavard solutions
• OutBoard DataFridge
• OutBoard DataTiering
(for new archives in S/4HANA)
New Implementation
System Conversion
Selective Data Transition
BW ERPSAP
ArchiveLink
Retention management
Archiving analysis
NLS
SDA+ DTO
BW/ERP/CRM
Mass archiving
Stragglers support
Implementation wizard
Automatic adjustments
Storage management
Data Distribution analysis
Lookup translation
Impact analysisRule-policy based archiving
Automation
Central cockpit
Wildcards
Recycle Bin
30+ Storages, Databases and Platforms
Rules & Inheritance
TCO Reduction and performance improvement through smart SAP data management
Decommissioning: R/2 | R/3 | mySAP | ECC
▪ Glue is an ETL and integration suite
to interface SAP and Hadoop
▪ Glue can extract data from
SAP systems
▪ old SAP systems (e.g.
Open discussion
Success Stories
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− Data offload of 120 TB from SAP to a distributed archiving platform (incl. Hadoop and Azure)
− Data transformation from SAP to Hadoop advanced analytics and customer360 reporting
Industry: Food processing
World's largest food companyHadoop as a best storage to integrate cold and warm SAP data using Datavard OutBoardTM & Datavard Glue™
From the team:
“Enabling one of the biggest SAP customers, to consolidate their existing ERP and BW landscape into one of the largest SAP HANA installations was
the most interesting and complex project I’ve participated in so far. Datavard’s unique portfolio of data management software and services is the key
success that helped to transform their big data into business assets.”Vladimir Groch
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Data growth and system consolidation− Big data integration with SAP
environment − HANA upgrade− Minimum downtime during migration
Solution:
− Datavard OutBoard™ for data offloading − Datavard Glue™ for SAPHadoop
integration− Datavard Validate™ for Test Automation− System Landscape Optimization
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− Data replication of >1billion records in 2 hrs and 420million records in 34 minutes (from SAP HANA to AWS)
− Data transformation on the fly of SAP tables into simplified names for easy consumption
− Hybrid data distribution into various targets simultaneously
Industry: Mining
Multinational mining companyNo big data lake without SAP data for getting better insights and predictions into manufacturing processes. Datavard Glue™ integrates SAP with Hadoop-based enterprise data lake
From the team:
“As a result of an intensive product comparison, Datavard Glue™ stand out with its rapid provisioning of SAP ERP and BW data with automatic creation
of target schema and contextualization of data into meaningful table and column names. For our Data Scientist, the identification of SAP data is now
very simplified as selection is based on business process library which comes out of the box.
This is the tool we were looking for long!” Enterprise Architect Vladimir GrochSOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Data provisioning of large volume data (>1billion records) from ERP and BW with delta load
− SAP’s cryptical terminology and technical description of data structures
− Hybrid architecture with Oracle, HANA, Cloud
Solution:
− Datavard Glue™ for SAP Cloudera on AWS
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− Data replication of customized tables directly to Hadoop in Hive format
− Data transformation on the fly of SAP tables into simplified names for easy consumption
− ABAP-based extraction even on Tcodeslevel
Industry: Holding company
Indonesian conglomerateNo big data lake without SAP data - customer’s roadmap for big data and analytics contains various data sources to be harmonized – for sure SAP data is the most complicated one
From the team:
“We tried to use traditional ETL tools to bring SAP data easily into our Cloudera big data lake. But having a high degree of customization and logics in
our SAP environment, only Datavard Glue™ was able to capture all existing structures even on SAP Tcodes and ABAP level. Hence we decided to use
Datavard for SAP data sources and Talend for non-SAP.”
Head of SAP Applications Vladimir GrochSOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Manual ABAP-based extractions without delta
− Data provision requirements from non-SAP users from HR and Finance
− Customized tables and structures in SAP
Solution:
− Datavard Glue™ for SAP Hadoop (Cloudera)
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− Automated data provisioning from SAP tables in MS Azure data lake
− Trigger- and time-based delta loads− Translating of SAP tables into meaningful
fields
Industry: Transportation
Multi modal transport operatorIoT and ML on Azure with historical and actual SAP data - To enable the future data warehouse platform with predictive models and analytics, Customer is building a 360-view with Datavard for SAP data integration
From the team:
“We served all data requests from the business with manual extractions and coding. Delta loads or transformation rules were difficult to implement. With
Datavard Glue™ we can now automate the whole process while having every data movement under control.”
SAP Basis LeadVladimir Groch
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Frequent requests from business for SAP data consumption in certain format
− Manual extraction process without governance
− Lack of knowledge of underlying SAP tables for business processes
Solution:
− Datavard Glue™ for SAP Azure
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− Offloaded aged and cold SAP BW into Hadoop to reduce the operational costs
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical company handles SAP big dataHadoop as a best storage for cold SAP big data using OUTBOARDTM Suite
From the team:
“Datavard’s unique portfolio of data management software and services is the key success that helps one of the leading Swiss pharmaceutical company
to transform their SAP big data into business assets.”
Solution ArchitectVladimir Groch
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Data growth and increasing TCO of BW on HANA.
− Necessity to manage cold and warm SAP BW data outside of HANA database in an alternative storage.
Solution:
− Datavard OutBoardTM DataTiering
Datavard Solution Gallery
Industry: Holding company
Swiss Market Expansion Services GroupSAP enabled Customer 360 Analytics on Azure Data Lake - Having the full picture of all client-relevant information such as finance data from SAP and social media activity, Datavard was chosen as a partner
Results:
− 15TB saved− 11 housekeeping objects implemented
in 7 BW systems− System-wide governance− Automated data cleansing− BW team saved 0.22 FTE− Cost savings: 24% initial costs & 62%
running costs
Industry: Building Materials
Multinational building materials companyCustomer automates Housekeeping activities with Datavard OUTBOARDTM Suite
From the team:
“Datavard OutBoardTM for Housekeeping is a highly innovative solution precisely addressing the customer`s needs.
Very recommendable.“
Solution ArchitectVladimir Groch
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Challenge:
− Few resources for data cleansing− No centralized, system-wide control− Growing data volumes− Systems polluted by SAP temporary data
(logs, IDOCs, PSAs, Change Logs)
Solution:
− Datavard OutBoardTM for Housekeeping
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