Optimize your SAP system landscape using EPI-USE Labs’ Data Sync Manager

Kontich, November 29, 2016

Optimize your SAP system landscape with DSM

We are Flexso

SAP infrastructure services

Landscape optimization

Data Sync Manager

Agenda

Speakers on stage

Optimize your SAP system landscape with DSM

We are Flexso, experts in SAPReliable, innovative, flexible & solution driven

Focus on your challenges

History

Close to the customer

Facts & figures

• 190 consultants

• 30 million euro

• 20% growth per year

• 5% attrition

• 110 active customers

• Top in Belgium

• 25 countries

• 4.000 Cronos consultants

The 4 foundations

What Flexso stands for

Investing in innovation

The power of a competence center

Enterprise management

Business competence centers

New technologies

Technology competence centers

Solution & Business Partners

SAP infrastructure servicesAdvisory, consulting & managed services

Consultants & skills

SAP infrastructure services

16 skilled consultants

SAP BC Administration

OS & DB skills Certification

Innovation

Quality & Customer

satisfaction

Advisory, consulting & managed services

SAP infrastructure services

Managed Services

Long term Assignments

ProjectsAdvisory Missions

Full service

SAP infrastructure services

Hardware

Private Cloud

Public CloudDocument

Management

Landscape Optimization

Regular questions about Landscape Optimization

Challenges & requirements

Landscape Optimization

Reduce complexity – more frequent refreshes

• Less room for human errors

• Less need of downtime and resources

Reduce cost of QA and DEV environments

• Only copy a subset of data

• More frequent question since HANA

•Scramble confidential data• External consultants

• HR data

Reproduce issues in a non-production environment

• Extract particular data from production

• Easier issue solving and testing

Data Sync Manager – Flexible, consistent, performant and secure

copying of SAP data with Data Sync Manager

Sylvain Bernard – Senior Technical Consultant – Epi-Use Labs29 November 2016

Agenda

Epi-use Labs

Product portfolio

Main use cases

Demo

Approach

Introduction to EPI-USE Labs

Unique solutions, mobile apps, and integration of different systems with SAP environments

Custom development

1600+ employees specialising in SAP

Part of the EPI-USE group

Third-party solutions for SAP ALM, HCM and more

SAP-certified products

EPI-USE Cloud Platform & Migration Services

Cloud managed hosting

Dedicated and innovative employees of

which 35% in R&D

SAP data-solution experts

Customers

900 globally; (450 in Europe) 50 in BeNeLux

Application Lifecycle Management

• Data Sync Manager (DSM)

› System Builder

› Client Sync

› Object Sync

› Data Secure

› System Compare

• EPI-USE Cloud Platform (UP)

Human Capital Management

• Query Manager

• Document Builder

• Variance Monitor

Our Products

ERP, CRM, SRM, GTS, BW, SCM, NW (HANA compatible)

Our Services

ERP, CRM, SRM, GTS, BW, SCM, NW (HANA compatible)

Landscape Transformation

› Company-code carve-outs

› HR system splits

› Mergers and Acquisitions

› Migrations to HANA

S, BW, SCM)

Solution as a Service (SaaS)

› Periodic test-system refreshes

› New system provisioning

› Ad-hoc data requirements

› Software-as-a-Service

› HCM-report writing

SAP selects Epi-Use Labs for SAP SuccessFactorsManaged Payroll migrations

Some implementations: last 6 months

BelgiumAB Inbev

KU Leuven

IMEC FranceSchnieder Electric

Adixen

Boulanger

Denmark

Coop Denmark

UKBritvicBP InternationalnpowerPets at Home

NetherlandsPhillips LightingUvAFriesland CampinaKLMMarel

SpainGrupo Antolin

IMI

Seat

Sample of customers

Our Support

“The support I get from your company has been and continues to be some of the best I have

seen in years of working with software companies.”

Global electronics manufacturing company, Florida (USA)

Dedicated

in-house team

24 hours

every workday

700+ customers

globally

80% tickets resolved

in < 24 hours

Wide language

support

Satisfied

customers

Data Sync Manager

Key points of Data Sync Manager

✓ SAP Certified solution (18 years on the market)

✓ One single transport per system

✓ No server or middleware required

✓ Simple implementation

✓ Easy to use via an intuitive interface

✓ Tested on Production systems up to 35TB

✓ Complete SAP solution

(for ERP, BW, SRM, SCM, CRM, GTS and HANA)

Data Sync Manager

System Builder

Client Sync

Object Sync

Data Secure

• Creates a ‘shell’ or empty system

• Builds / refreshes the repository

and client-independent

customizing

• Provisions an empty system ready

for data

System Builder (SB)

System Builder

Data Sync Manager

• Copies the data

› Master

› Transactional (sliced)

› Client dependent customizing (required)

› User (optional)

• Reduces space

• Simplifies and automates client refresh

• Reduces post processing by 80%

Client Sync (CS)

Data Sync Manager

Client Sync

Our Client Sync solution

ProductionNon-Production

Repository objects

Client-independent customizing

Client-dependent customizing

Transactional data

Mas

ter

Dat

a

Repository objects

Client-independent customizing

Client-dependent customizing

Transactional data

Mas

ter

Dat

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With Client Sync, you can copy

• Application data

› Master data

› Transactional data (time-sliced)

› HCM data only

› User master data

• Customizing data

› Client-dependent customizing

› HCM customizing data only

consistent clientTime slice

Resolving Document Flows in Client Sync

Enterprise slice

Resolving Document Flows in Client Sync

consistent client

• On-demand data

• Functional users

• Copy, scramble and clone data on

ad/hoc basis

Object Sync (OS)

Data Sync Manager

Object Sync

• Mask / anonymize the data

• Out the box policies

• Customizable / adaptable

• Can run with or without Client

Sync

Data Secure (DS)

Data Secure

Data Sync Manager

4TB0.7TB 1TB ++

= 5.7 TB

4TB4TB 4TB ++

= 12 TB

With DSM, you can

• selectively copy and scramble data on demand selectively copy and scramble data on demand

• save data storage space - up to 80%!

• minimise the need for full refreshes and eliminate manual data entry

Copying with Data Sync Manager

Integrated solution for SAP System, Client and Object copying

Masking with Data Sync Manager

How to build / refresh a Client

Client-dependent Customization

Ap

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Transaction Data

Master Data

Use

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rs

Repository

System Builder

Client SyncObject Sync

Client-independent Customization

Main use cases

Disk space

Data size

Down time

Basis resources

Upgrade testing

Problem simulationsConfig testing

Out-dated test data

Sensitive data

Testing environments

Training scenarios

System refreshes

Partial refreshes

BDLS

Functional team needs

Software

• Works on any SAP environment with ABAP stack

• Fits with IS solutions ( IS-U filtering by Contract Account )

• Custom analysis can be put in place

Performance Benchmark example

Philips Lighting– Reduced new from 3.5TB to 500GB

3 month slice of transactional data, with Master Data and client dependent customising:

ERP: Export 16.8 hrs, Import 32 hrs – Total time = 48 hrs and 44 mins

Previous copy tool effectively unable to copy the specific data they needed

Client Sync Demo™

How to start?

• Run OAP – analysis program to define technical steps and functional

design for implementing accordingly

› Review of custom tables

› Definition of scrambling requirements

• Defining scope with the customer

• IMD – documentation for the implementation

• Typical implementation takes 5 days – varies on scope

Licensing Model

• Per system

• Per Module

• Database SizeData Sync

Manager

System Builder

Client Sync

Object Sync

Data Secure

Portfolio

Data Sync Manager

System Builder

Client Sync

Object Sync

Data Secure

Contact

www.epiuselabs.com Hans@labs.epiuse.combas@labs.epiuse.com

http://support.epiuse.com @EPIUSELabs

EPI-USE Labs EPI-USE_Labs

Challenges & requirements

Landscape Optimization

Reduce complexity – more frequent refreshes

System Builder & Client Sync

Reduce cost of QA and DEV environments

Client Sync (subset)

Scramble confidential data Data Secure

Reproduce issues in a non-production environment

Object Sync

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