SAP’s ability to cater to diverse business needs has helped it maintain a commanding presence in the ERP market. This scalability and flexibility have aided businesses to streamline operations and achieve success.
Integration
What is SAP data management? From data federation and replication to app integration, SAP data management solutions provide seamless connectivity between your systems, making it easier for user groups to get the correct data to perform their jobs. It helps reduce dependency on IT professionals and ensures that all employees have access to the best information to drive business value and growth.
SAP master data governance enables organizations to maintain high-quality, consistent master data records for their ERP systems. It means improved decision-making and greater transparency while reducing the risk of costly mistakes when systems are not correctly synchronized.
The integration capabilities in SAP data management enable data processes to work together to create more accurate, relevant, and timely reports. It helps you deliver faster and more accurate insights across your organization, including to business users via self-service reporting.
Integrated data management is essential for your organization to gain the agility and scalability necessary to respond to real-time data. It requires connecting your data sources without losing their context, whether joining a data lake, cloud, or on-premise data warehouse platform. SAP provides several methods and protocols to secure your systems, including Business Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Java Connector (JCo), and Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP). Additionally, it supports data in motion with APIs, data streaming, and unified cloud integration through strategic partnerships.
Analytics
BI tools from SAP deliver insights for business intelligence and planning based on a single data model. It improves visibility and enables collaboration, even when data is spread across different applications or platforms.
High-quality master data, including customer, supplier, material, and article data, is the cornerstone of successful business processes. It drives efficiency, reduces procurement costs, and boosts asset ROI. However, maintaining this high level of data quality requires a significant effort. With data management solutions from SAP, you can automate and standardize your processes to eliminate errors and reduce manual work.
The data modeling feature of SAP data management helps you improve data preparation by defining, transforming, and enriching data. Without programming knowledge, you can also define and maintain rules, validations, derivations, fields, and building blocks. It increases data quality, eliminates errors, and enables collaboration with users.
The solution also includes a tool that connects external data providers (business information agencies, geo data providers, etc.) directly to your SAP system. You can validate, enrich, and integrate your master data with these external sources, ensuring access to all the data required for your core business. It improves the accuracy of your analyses, forecasts, and simulations. It also enables you to make your data available to all users with a single data model, regardless of the source system or the location of the data in SAP and non-SAP systems.
Data Management
An organization’s success relies on its capacity to manage data efficiently. It requires a comprehensive data management solution to handle structured and unstructured data while maintaining business context and logic. SAP offers a complete portfolio of data management solutions, enabling you to turn information into value and achieve strategic business outcomes. These include enhancing business intelligence, driving digitization, and improving data governance.
Companies store large amounts of data from various sources in a central database. This task is challenging because it requires an in-depth understanding of data structures, values, compliance regulations, and security.
To address this, we provide tools that automate data processes and make them easier for business users. They support compliance, adhere to security requirements, and deliver consistent and high-quality data. These tools are vital in enabling your organization to become an intelligent enterprise.
Reporting
With a clear view of enterprise data, you can deliver trusted insights and extend planning and analysis across your organization.
If information is power, it should be easy for your employees to gain the insights they need to accomplish their jobs and meet your business goals. But a lot of SAP data isn’t easily accessible. For example, if you need to create a report on financial (FI) or controlling (CO) data, the complex underlying table structures in SAP make it challenging to extract, transform, and load the needed information into Excel for reporting. Often, IT specialists must be involved, which leads to delays.
To eliminate these problems, BI tools can help simplify and automate these tasks so that employees can access and analyze their data independently without waiting for IT support. Wands for SAP is one such tool. It makes it easier to access, research, and work with your SAP data in a unified environment, eliminating the need to export or copy data between systems. The resulting real-time views of your SAP data in excel reduce dependency on IT and provide you with a faster, more effective way to perform analyses.
This is just a glimpse of how SAP’s broader analytics and data management products and technologies can address your crucial business needs.
