In the era of data-driven decision-making, SAP systems often pose challenges when it comes to seamlessly analyzing and integrating data. At Simplement, we spent years focused on SAP reporting with our original offering: Data Liberator and recently developed Roundhouse, our latest release, to deliver your data quickly and easily.
SAP Data
SAP is a primary player in enterprise software, especially for managing multi-country / multi-currency operations. SAP is amazing at interconnecting the data in the SAP system. However, creating detailed reports quickly, with real time data, is not easy unless you are in IT with a lot of system access. SAP offers many ways to access data with Fiori and the standard GUI, but users often need lots of diverse information, causing users to bounce between transactions or require custom reports. Datasphere, SAC, and others are also great tools, but building reports is a complex and lengthy process.
Reporting Requests
Need a complex report? Did you submit a request for it? Do you kinda know how to build it? When you have learned how to build a report or two using Simplement, you get better at it. Simplement users love Simplement because they can build their own reports. IT can easily provide access and focus on priorities, not report building. The current alternative, is that a request will get submitted, something will be scheduled, requirements documented, review ensues…Work begins. This is appropriate, formal, and good practice. What if you don’t know exactly what you need? Ever have report requirements that were miscommunicated?
Extract SAP Data
Want data access AND control costs? Simplement changes everything for customers because data can be extracted easily, and quickly, even big tables. Select only the data you want – filter rows and select only relevant columns. Do you know that some of the SAP tables are 400+ columns wide? When you do a full load into a database target – you are paying for those empty columns. For storage and maybe for processing! If you need, load the full table for exploration – then change the extraction to only relevant columns. It only takes a few clicks. Our software creates the target tables and views automagically.
Power BI? Fabric? Tableau? Other?
Analyze your data with any tool you want. Customers asked for multiple targets so we built it. Simplement’s Roundhouse delivers data to any (or multiple) targets at the same time, with the same data. Split data for governance or functional reasons into different targets for different audiences. Data gets loaded to a database (DB), data lake, or data warehouse that you select – we feed all major databases, then flows real time to the selected target DBs, then to your reporting tool, that you select. How can it be so flexible? Because that is what the customer wants, and we know, because we ask.
SAP ETL Data
What data? Any SAP data you want. A customer requested BALDAT. Huh? Yes, and we set to work to deliver the data in a consumable format and with a week or so we sent them an update to try and there it was, full BALDAT data, real time. We can decluster any data, into consumable format and you can use it for reporting any way you want. We specialize in SAP, Business, Databases, ETL, ELT, and reporting. Because of this, we have predefined reports that are near drop in. You can see your data in days and build reports in days. We deliver data that is easy to consume.
Currencies, Types, Lengths, Formats
Easy to consume? At Simplement, we know seamless reporting. We translate all currencies, exchange rates, cluster data, synchronize all dates and time formats and lengths. When you want to build custom reports, everything joins easily. Why is this important? Because shortly after you integrate Simplement, your staff will get the hang of it, want to know more about what they do, and they will build the reports. That frees up IT time, gives your staff the reports they want and need, fast, increases engagement, and improves your business. But how will they read the SAP table-column codes? We add views with all key columns indicated, and add all full length table and full length column descriptions so nearly anyone who wants to will figure out how to join tables and understand what data they want.
