E3-Magazine Global, 29.10.2020
Things change fast, and technology needs to catch up. For organizations, having real-time data is key to streamlining their work and services they deliver to their customers. And how to achieve it? The answer to this is event streaming – collecting, analyzing and managing streams of information the moment it is produced. Organizations are already adopting this technology, which enables them to run scenarios relying on immediate action on data. These include payment processing, fraud detection, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and IoT analytics.
In the article published in the E-3 Magazine, we are looking into a particularly interesting (and much needed) use case. In this business scenario, the customer wanted to receive mobile push-notifications whenever the status of the shipment changed. Read the full article to learn how we streamed shipment events from SAP to the native Azure cloud services using Datavard Glue:
Reducing the footprint of BW on HANA systems
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If you're coming equipped with an SAP ...
SLT and BODS do not always make things easier
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In the previous blob posts of this mini-series I was showing you how you can easily and natively integrate between SAP and Big Data platforms using Datavard Glue as middleware and workbench to identify data, build ETL processes, and consume it on (for example) Data Lakes.
Glue is natively integrated ...
With Datavard Glue we have a strong solution for tight, native, integration of SAP systems and data lakes running on big data platforms. Many companies decide to run their Data Lake in the cloud – obviously this addresses the topic of scalability very well, while minimizing the work of ...
SAP data tends to be complicated and cryptic
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SLT – a handy tool, but not all you need
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Having SAP based data within a data lake is very helpful when it comes to implementing scenarios such as fraud detection, churn reduction, or predictive maintenance. For example, you can identify equipment such as machinery or trucks which should be serviced through their maintenance history (stored in SAP, of ...
Yes, we need cloud, but how to connect it with SAP?
Many companies today extend their infrastructure to the Cloud. Why? Cloud offers flexibility – whether you need to stretch it out a bit to accommodate more data, or scale it down, you can do it with one click. It ...
With the close of 2019 comes the start of a new decade. It is always a challenge to look into the future and try to understand what might be coming, what might fuel the next excited surge in development or interest, but let’s give it a shot. Here are ...
Why does it make sense to stress your system and how is it done?
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Google’s announcement opens another door
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Going to the Cloud? Fasten your seatbelts first.
So, you’ve taken the plunge. After years of reading about and listening to all the Cloud hype, you’ve finally decided to move your cherished business critical on-premise systems to this mystical place where you have minimal costs with maximum flexibility – what ...
Event streaming between SAP and Azure – how others are doing it?
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Datavard Partners with Accenture to Help Customers Run Complex SAP Transformation Scenarios
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SAP BW/4HANA: light, fast, open, agile - what's not to like?
SAP BW/4HANA comes with many benefits. It is lighter and faster than any other SAP BW version before it. It is easier to integrate it with other data sources, including third party applications and data stores in Hadoop or ...
More guest speakers, more insightful sessions, more use cases
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Why integrate your SAP data into your Data Lake?
Big Data scenarios are becoming increasingly interesting for many companies. However, data is still generated and stored in silos, especially when it comes to SAP. Breaking down these silos to achieve data integration is a top priority.
How can Datavard help you ...
Not just another digital event
After a great success of our recent digital event we decided to raise the bar even higher – we are launching a global virtual event for all SAP enthusiasts (and sceptics alike). We onboarded C-level experts in the area of S/4HANA transitions, cloud migrations and complex system transformations. Ladies ...
Choosing the right service for S/4HANA transition in near zero downtime
If your company has already decided on transitioning to S/4HANA with the near zero downtime approach, you might be looking now for the right tools to execute it. And this is not an easy choice!
When I started to collect ...
Data growth remains one of the top challenges of SAP systems administrators. Our experience in working with various SAP environments shows that even up to 25% of your system can be polluted with temporary data, that is automatically generated data that quickly loses its value. That’s why it is ...
The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2020
Phew! We’ve almost reached the end of 2020. If you’re anything like me, you’ve already started to refer to this year in the past tense – a clear sign that we’ve subconsciously put this somewhat eventful (read: traumatic) year behind us ...
SAC and Power BI - more than just front-end tools
SAP and Microsoft are well established software providers with highly evolved and successful BI tools - SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI, which cater to a wide audience including developers, business users and power users.
Even though, we start off by ...
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The latest trends in the SAP world point to the importance of gathering structured and unstructured data from various sources, e.g. SAP systems, file systems or social media, in one place – the data lake. This will enable further analytics, diagnostics, and predictions thus helping to make business decisions ...
Nowadays, data is growing at an exponential rate and that leads to increased costs for maintenance, licenses, and storage. A past analysis of SAP document attachments growth showed an increase of 700,000 attachments per month in a single SAP ECC system. This corresponds to a monthly storage and licenses ...