Data Locate: Locate the exact SAP test data you need, even at high volume

Finding the right SAP test data shouldn't take hours

Your projects depend on realistic SAP test data; but in Production systems holding millions of records, finding the precise object keys your testers need is slow, manual and error-prone. Pull the wrong data and tests fail; pull too much and you waste storage and time. SAP's deeply interconnected data model makes it harder, because a single business object rarely stands alone. You need a fast, reliable way to search, filter and select exactly the transactional and master data each test case requires, without combing through high-volume tables by hand, or waiting on scarce Basis and functional IT colleagues.

Data Locate: precise object key selection for SAP testing

Data Locate, part of our Data Sync Manager (DSM) suite, locates and selects object keys. Search, filter and select the exact object keys you need, then process them for manual or automated testing, on demand.

Data Locate allows you to find specific instances of data, by building rules to select, filter and process keys into different groups based on the functional need. Rather than downloading multiple tables from SAP and doing numerous lookups, Data Locate can do incredibly granular cross-searches across different data types – such as finding a Business Partner for a combination of Sales Org, Distribution Channel and Division – but also combining other criteria, such as previous products purchased.

Precise selection, backed by our proprietary 3,700+ BOW definitions

At the heart of DSM is our proprietary Business Object Workbench (BOW) which includes the definitions of over 3,700 different data types, which are constantly updated. Data Locate is designed to take really large data-sets and efficiently filter through them, and then build rules based on top of that BOW to be able to help you locate the data that you need for the particular test that you're looking to do. When you then integrate Data Locate into test automation and finding test sets, it becomes incredibly powerful.

Use Data Locate on its own, or combine it with Object Sync, Object Extractor and Data Secure to copy, extract and mask the data you've pinpointed – delivering relevant, right-sized test data, ready when your teams are.

Challenge	What it means	How Data Locate helps
Data is hard to find	In high-volume Production systems, locating the right object keys for a test is slow and manual.	Select, filter and process object keys directly — designed for extremely high data volumes.
Related data gets missed	SAP objects are interlinked, so selecting one without its dependencies breaks the test.	Leverages 3,700+ business objects and their relationships to select complete, consistent data.
Automated testing stalls	Manual data prep slows Continuous Improvement (CI) and automated test pipelines.	Selects and processes object keys for both manual and automated testing, on demand.
Point tools don't scale	Standalone utilities can't cover the full test-data lifecycle.	Works alone or with other components in the DSM suite: Object Sync, Object Extractor, Client Sync and Data Secure.

Data Sync Manager has provided perfect data quality without significant load on the systems, and test and training systems are much smaller now. Business users work independently of Global IT when they need to copy objects from the productive system to test systems. Object Sync has been very valuable for checking and fixing incidents, e.g. in Payroll.

Esben Fagerlind, SAP Landscape & Release Consultant, Vestas

The Data Sync Manager suite ticked all the boxes for us

Sylvia Odekerken, Service Manager at Vebego

DSM has saved us a considerable amount of time as refreshes have improved from manual intervention with a lot of costly activity, to minimal activity.

Jeff Greiner - Director, Enterprise Applications Engineering at Siemens PLM Software

The benefits of bringing in DSM were that we could reliably and quickly deliver consistent test data to our systems that weren’t manipulated to suit certain test scenarios, and that could meet the criteria we needed without technical intervention. It is actually a tool that is used by the business to deliver their own test data, so they can understand and manage their test data more reliably and more quickly.

SAP Solutions Manager, leading British energy retailer

One of the key elements for us was the flexibility that the EPI-USE Labs team provided, both with landscape alignment and on a project management level. Dunelm did not have the resources to do that. We needed a partner that could come in with a technical mindset as well as a project management mindset.

Steve Ross, SAP Technical Services Manager, Dunelm

DSM has given us a faster, more consistent test process, and allowed us to meet ad-hoc business requests quickly. It’s also reduced our data footprint and masked our sensitive data, which is a big bonus.

Tom Garreis, SAP Basis & Security Manager, A.O. Smith

The EPI-USE Labs products have shortened the time and effort to get a valid system up and running. The major benefit from the DSM Suite is that we can take over objects and we can make them usable, and test without compromising GDPR data. The ability to do a quick and valid sync is also a benefit.

Hans Henrik Jensen, Service Delivery Manager, Coop Denmark