End-to-end data management for your SAP deployments

A good day to all of our authors who have joined today's session. So thank you for your time. And I wanted to share with you that this would be the last webinar that we'll be having for the year. Thank you so much for tuning in for all the previous sessions that we've allocated for you starting in January, and now we're here in November. And we'll be wrapping up the year with a summary of all the solutions that we tackled in the previous months. So, we'd like to share with you a suite of solutions which would help with an end to end data management for your clients' SAP deployment projects. And, as you all know or you may have not seen us yet, I'm Moriel from Global Marketing, and I'm handling, partner marketing here at EPI-USE Labs. And with me today is. She's our head of global marketing here at EPI-USE Labs. And just a brief summary of what we'll be talking about for today. The content that we'll be sharing with you would be some of the challenges that our solutions address and what the solutions are that we offer and some success stories that, we were able to already publish with some of the clients who's trusted us to work with their, SAP deployments and, opportunities on how we can work together. And without further ado, I'll let take it away. Thank you. Thank you for that, Marielle. So it's an honor to do this webinar for you today. When I want to start, I want to kind of just set the scene a little bit. I think when we look at it from EPI-USE Labs perspective, what we're seeing today is that we are having many of our clients that is in the hybrid cloud evolution. Many people are looking at how they would take their whole landscape up, and it might include SAP and other solutions. But this is a real challenge that people are facing today. The other big driver in the market at the moment is the AI revolution. If you attended is the SAP TechEd conference recently, everything was around AI, and this is revolutionizing how we're doing business today. But at the same time, many businesses also have the need for more outcomes. We need to do more with what we have, and we have an escalating need of secure data. How do we secure what we have in our systems? The news is really full of attacks and bad agents, and everybody needs to look at this. So in this frame of what's happening in the world, I would like to tell you a little bit more about how we can help you and also how you can help then your client end clients at the end. So at EPI-USE Labs, we have these six strategic narratives that helps us kind of just tell you a little bit more about what we do. So I'm going to use these and just give you an overview of the solutions. Many of you have been working with us for years. You might know us for a certain part of the business, but there's also other parts that you could explore when you work with us. So first of all, I'm going to focus on the optimized data and environments. This is a broad area for us where we are talking about test data automation, test data management. Data Sync Manager has been in the market for over twenty five years. A lot of people know the solution, but we can do so much more with the Data Sync Manager than just provision data. We can also help you to really look at how you can strategize your whole project around s four HANA and make sure that you have less data in non production systems, which will bring down costs significantly. So the reduction of data footprint is such a key topic at the moment that you can listen out for when you speak to your clients. The other topic really is around scrambling of data in that non production system, and that's where the Data Sync Manager is really a very strong solution. But also if you need to decommission in systems, I don't know if you guys know Archive Central, but this is a key solution which can help you when people go to Greenfields to sunset like legacy systems so that you only take the data that you need in this new environment. So just a quick recap. You want to make sure that you can refresh data for your projects. We can extract and copy data. You can secure the data. Make sure that we work with our test automation solutions like WorkSoft and Tricentis. You can also sunset the data, and it's all about optimizing your SAP systems for the cloud world. So in terms of Data Sync Manager, the some of the statistics that we have from our clients so that you can make your test systems up to seventy five to eighty percent smaller depending on what type of system this is. But you can also reduce your manual workloads, make sure that you scramble the data on exit. And Data Sync Manager has been in the market for a very long time, and we have many clients globally. So it's really a very mature solution. If we just look at a little bit more in the detail what is included in Data Sync Manager, so we have Shell Sync for s four HANA or System Builder on ECC, and this will help you to build a Shell system and get your systems in line with production. Client Sync helps you to copy a client, so that's really helping you with that subset. And it helps also with, like, a client slice or you can do a company slice just to reduce that data. Object sync has really been revolutionary for us because we can then really copy only the optic objects that you need for that specific taste scenario that you might have. Many of you might not know Object Extractor. This is a new solution that is part of the suite. Object Extractor uses the same engine as Object Sync, but the data is extracted, and this is really key when you want to automate more of your solutions. And then Data Secure for that security on the systems. If I quickly jump into Archive Central, this is the SaaS solution that will copy the data into Archive Central where it's hosted as a read only version of your data. And this is really great if you would like to go greenfield and you don't want to take all the data with you but you need the data for compliance reasons. So just a quick overview of some of the case studies I want to highlight in this space. Presbyen is a company in Italy and they use Data Sync Manager to help them reduce their non production systems in the cloud. They've gone with RISE. And this has really been key for them to make sure that they can maintain the data footprint in non production system, but also kind of to lower the infrastructure cost, make it more cost effective. So this is a key solution that many people should look at that's moving to S4HANA at the moment. BT is another example just of a very large company with a large database, and that Data Sync Manager could help them get their refreshes done in a timely manner up to ten times faster than before. So Data Sync Manager is really optimized for large databases and can do the heavy lifting there. And the last example is just Amphia Hospital. They used Archive Central to decommission their SAP systems and but still have it available for compliance reasons. That makes me come to the next area that I want to talk about and that is security and test data and security is really going hand in hand. Data Secure is part of the Data Sync Manager suite, but it's also part of our privacy suite because there's such an overlap between the two. So in twenty eighteen, GDPR came into effect and that really changed how people looked at data privacy. So we have our data privacy suite that can help you find data, make sure that you can give the right of access, make sure that you can report on this data with data disclosed, but that you can also remove or redact some of this data. This is on the production system and then we also have data retain that can help you build rules so that you have the data minimization top of mind when you look at your systems. In terms of roles and authorizations, we also work in this space to make sure that you really only give access to people that needs to have access to the data. And importantly, as I said before, we need to scramble that data. The SAP DPA states that you can't have real data in your non production system. And so therefore, Data Secure is really key when people move to RISE so that we can scramble that data. So the suite that we are talking about here is our Data Privacy Suite. This gives you the options to really help you support compliance for data privacy solutions. And the case that I wanted to talk to you about is NG. They had the regulator talked to them about how they can really secure their system. They have implemented EPI-USE Labs' solutions, and the regulator were very happy with the outcome of this. Also, did a very large company project with over a hundred countries with different rules and could implement data retain, data redact, and disclose to help them to comply in all the different countries where they are doing business. That brings me to our HCM portfolio, and this is an area where we are really helping we work closely with our group partners in the payroll space. So it's really important for us to be able to give you a way that you can report on HCM and SuccessFactors data. This hybrid scenario is really key, and Query Manager is a solution that works really well in this space. We also look at digital transformation, e moving to ECP, and having solutions for comparing data really helps you in these projects. So if I look at throughout the life cycle in the HCM system, it is important to always be able to reconcile data and really look at all your employee data. And this is what we provide through with the HCM Productivity Suite. The suite consists out of Query Manager, Variance Monitor, and Data Sync Manager for HCM. And together, these solutions give you a broad variety of business as usual reporting and comparison and copying solutions so that you can do what you need to do with your system. The quick case study I would highlight is with Compass Group in the UK. They use the HXM Productivity Suite to make sure that they run their payroll on a timely matter and that they always have data to test anything that's new coming into the system. That brings me to our transformation area. I think everybody is busy today with transformations. And whether you are moving your HCM systems into ECP or private cloud edition, it's this the deadline is end of twenty five. The extended maintenance deadline, twenty seven. So there's a lot of projects happening in this area. Also, on the S4HANA space, we are seeing quite an uptake on this. What we group under our transformation space is for all projects where we come in as data experts, and we help you with either mergers, acquisitions, plant relocations, technical projects, or modernization projects like moving to S4HANA or the payroll systems. We are really strong in the hybrid scenario. So if I quickly talk to you about our Prism solution, you know, we could help you in a greenfield implementation where people just want to bring some of the data in. You as our partner would run the project, and we would help and support you for that data piece. We are very strong in the hybrid approach, and that's the most flexible solution where we can come and see in what data you want to transform, what do you want to take over. And then also in the brownfield conversion, we've seen some organizations mostly use a brownfield conversion, but then they still want to reduce the data footprint or they want to reduce the number of objects they want to take into the new target system. So our message really here is no matter what type of project you're helping your clients with, we can come and bring out Prism solution and we can support you in that process. So we have you our Prism Solutions are quite a broad variety of products that would help and support us to help you in that project. And just a quick couple of case studies, Menzies Aviation, they've recently moved to ECP and we've helped them with a couple of the different countries moving over to the solution. And this really is helping people not to reimplement their payroll, but that they still get the benefits of modernizing to the cloud. Also, another project with that we worked with an SI where the project was mostly greenfield, but we came and we extracted the data they wanted so that it could be loaded into the new system. So just an example of how we work with partners on this. We also have an a whole area in our business that focus on client specific innovations or custom development. And this is in space where we're really pushing the boundaries to look at SAP BTP, what is happening with the latest technologies. Also, we're looking at AI quite extensively as this is part of what people are looking for in their business to modernize and transform, get the most more out of what they have. So if you have a project, then you're not sure who to partner with, please speak to us. This is something that we could help you develop further. And just a quick example from MTN in South Africa. So we've helped them to look at how their system can also leverage AI to boost productivity. So some examples just how we have helped many clients in the world. So in summary, we really see ourselves as the data experts and we can come and help you with your projects, whether it is to copy the data, scramble, archiving to align systems again, whether it's divestitures, deletions, or to report on data. And we can work closely with partners. If you have any requirements, please reach out to us. We want to work closely with you in order to support you also in your projects or if you have clients with product needs that we can help you in that regard. So that was a quick overview of different solutions that we have and I'm going to hand you back to Maria for the next slide. Thank you, Okay. So now that we have shared with you all of the solutions that we have, just some other resources that we wanted to highlight to support you in our collaboration, we actually have Client Central, which is a portal that we use for both clients and partners. So it actually lets you, log leads if you have determined that a prospect is a good fit for any of the solutions that we talked to you about today. There's also courses and learning paths available that would let you know more about, the solutions that, we've discussed in more depth and other materials that would help such as brochures, some videos, and other knowledge based articles to get more information on technical questions that you may have on the products that we have. And before we leave you today, I would just like to present the opportunity again. As partners, we can actually do a live demo for your events. So if you have any planned efforts in the next couple of months, we'd love to work with your marketing team so that we could hopefully, get a presentation in front of your prospects or your clients so that we can prove the engines of, the solutions that we presented today in face value. And perhaps, we could, talk more if you could just reach out to me via email. I've included my contact details in the screen. And thank you again so much for joining us today, and we look forward to working with you more in the future.