How to Get Data Out of SAP: Simplement Roundhouse’s Superpower

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SAP pushes. Nothing pulls.

Sales

“Where is my order?” We want answers for you. All of them. The best reports give you answers, not leads to follow. Answers. Customization is always an option. Get the requirements drawn up, get some resources, get it tested in dev, try to test with prod-level data flows, migrate to prod, then hope for zero modifications.

Or get answers, fast. For example, we deliver sales status reporting. We already created it. Might need a tune for your enhancement pack level or customizations. Like month-to-date and year-to-date? Yes, and current orders waiting to ship, past due, blocked, late but missing inventory WITH inventory anticipation date, and delivery printed but stuck. And if there are any notes, or credit blocks, or anything else, that is included too. Answers to “where is my order?” questions. Not just sales data—any SAP data.

Why Move It?

You don’t have to. You can customize SAP, a lot. A big business was told, “your SAP system is so customized, if it went down, it might not start back up. You should migrate to S4.” After migrating, they went bankrupt. All custom reporting was left in the deprecated ECC system, and they could not keep operations on track without it.

SAP is amazing, but complex. SAP put 90,000+ tables in ECC and more in S4. A simple sales order links to numerous tables for headers, details, descriptions, status, and master data. Users like descriptions and sales office names, etc.

When you move SAP data out for reporting, you get all the details, fast. All exceptions, including that one-time accounts payable transaction with full details like time, date, login, and username.

SAP Texts

Sales orders have many free text fields. You could use one to describe a reason for a block, then feed that to your report. Ask your IT team about SAP text fields in reporting and how fast they could add them. Why not use what you have? SAP is full of text fields. We deliver any and all texts, real time. Add text, click save, and as fast as your network moves it, it’ll show up in a report—even on your phone.

Make It

Easy. Do your analysts have the best tools? Would they tell you? Roundhouse moves your SAP data with conversions for easy reporting, easy joining, and easy data type matching. We worked hard to make all of this easy. Want to control costs? Easy—only select the data you want. Some SAP tables have 400 columns; no one uses them all. SAP put them there for flexibility.

Need more data? Add it with a few clicks by an admin. That’s it. Data lands in the target, creating a view with full table names and column descriptions. Real-time data flows as it’s created in the source.

We support all types of data: cluster data (like MDTC / CDCLS), cluster tables (like RFBLG to BSEG), exchange rates, currencies, pool tables—all converted, with easy-to-use dates, times, and data types. Simplement Roundhouse integrates seamlessly with your existing data analytics and BI tools.

Governance Inside

Data security and governance are paramount in today’s digital landscape. Simplement Roundhouse takes these concerns seriously, implementing robust security measures and adhering to stringent data governance practices. Your SAP data remains secure throughout data movement, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and compliance with industry regulations.

Customer data does not leave customer control. Want to split HR data from Finance data? Use built-in functions. Want to use some HR data but not compensation? Don’t select those columns. We built in options to select only the tables and columns you want.

Union All

If you have multiple SAP systems, data consolidation is easy. Move data from each system and merge it for consolidated reporting. Want to keep some things separate? Only put the finance data from each entity into the same database, keeping all other company data separate for compliant reporting. We can move any SAP data from your system, with real-time reports.

How Easy?

Install is easy, set up is easy. Select tables, create reports. We configured Roundhouse to feed all major data lakes and data warehouses: Amazon S3, Azure ADLS2, Databricks, Fabric, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, HANA, Snowflake. You can consume your data in any tool: Power BI, Fabric, Tableau, etc.

Simplement Roundhouse provides a seamless solution with efficient data movement, customization options, and robust data security.

Start with the data. Add the answers when you want them.

Roundhouse moves your SAP data with conversions for easy reporting, easy joining, and easy data type matching.

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