Strategic Data Analysis Tool (SDAT) Suite Overview

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Auritas SDAT Suite is a combination of tools that empowers clients to effectively manage SAP databases and transactions.  SDAT easily and accurately predicts historical and future database growth patterns, tracks ROI on ongoing data management projects and archive-enables reports and transactions.  Benefits:

• Consolidates information into a single dashboard for client power users to access SAP tables, file systems and other storage locations to identify and track key size and growth contributors. 
• Provides flexible and easy-to-use analysis options with almost unlimited reporting features
• Provides quick and easy archive-enabling of SAP reports and transactions
• Enables clients to make empowered decisions about whether to retain data in the database, archive it, delete it or remove it entirely—to  maximize hardware usage, processor power, and system resources

The SDAT Suite includes the following tools:

• Archive-Enabling for Reports & Transactions
• Database Analysis
• Technical Impact Analysis
• Archive Object Success Analysis
• Archiving Priority Analysis
• Archiving Effectiveness Analysis

SDAT Archive-Enabling for Reports & Transactions

Modifying reports and transactions to continue working correctly after data archiving has been completed can be time-consuming and frustrating.  

The Auritas SDAT Archive-Enabling tool resolves these issues, and has revolutionized the archive enablement process within SAP.  Users can quickly and easily archive-enable any kind of report or transaction in SAP in just three easy steps:

1. Select existing report/transaction and enter preferred prefix for new archive-enabled item
2. Select applicable archiving objects (to be linked to new item)
3. Confirm values: enter name for the new item and transaction code

SDAT Database Analysis

SAP data analysis is the first step and benchmark in a data archiving project, and tracking results and ROI is an ongoing requirement.   While there are other custom tools on the market that can analyze the SAP database, the SDAT Database Analysis tool takes the process to a new level, enabling clients to:

• Access limitless ad-hoc reporting capabilities at your finger tips with a click of a button
• Analyze by daily, weekly, monthly and annual time frames
• Easily and accurately predict database growth patterns
• Save a growth chart at any particular period of time
• Overlap/tile growth charts over one another and compare current vs. historical data growth
• Predict archiving impact on database size based on the corporate retention period and estimated go-live date

SDAT Technical Impact Analysis

Understanding the technical impact of a data archiving initiative is an important key to project success, but equally challenging for the client team to identify all of the affected components.

During the data archiving project implementation, it is very common for a customer to have issues identifying the reports (standard, customer, report writer and pointer) that can potentially be impacted with the implementation of a particular archive object. This situation can become further complicated when a global company is involved.  The Archiving team depends on the functional team to identify the potentially impacted reports and the functional team will thus rely on the archiving team for the full knowledge of the impact upon the potential deletion of these proposed tables. Circumstances like this can easily cause delays for almost any archiving project.  In some cases, where the decision has been made to move forward without thorough archive analysis, projects have had significant issues after the initial go live.

The Auritas SDAT Technical Impact Analysis tool resolves these challenges.   It quickly and easily identifies detailed information about the reports, transactions, queries etc. that are going to be impacted by an archive initiative, including:

• List of the reports/transactions/etc. that will be impacted by each archive object—analyze by period of time and type
• List of users within the organization using each report/transaction
• Date that each report/transaction was last executed
• User that is the  ‘owner’ of each report/transaction
• User that last changed each report/transaction

SDAT Archive Object Success Analysis

Before the actual archiving and deletion process is completed in production, there is no accurate way of predicting the SAP archiving success rate since the built-in tool is not able to provide details of “archive-ability” from a particular table.

The Auritas SDAT Archive Success Analysis tool mines the information required to easily and accurately predict SAP data archiving success and ROI, including:

• Predictive information at your finger tips, including data archiving success rate and ROI by  archive object
• Chronological archive object sizing analysis determines the size of the most commonly used archiving objects
• Monthly, Quarterly, Bi-annual (Six-monthly) and Annual analysis options
• Scenario analysis using stored statistics are used to plan archiving project phases, implementation timeline and actual space reclamation

SDAT Archiving Priority Analysis

An important part of a successful data archiving plan is to choose the best sequence in which to archive objects.

The Auritas Archiving Priority Analysis tool intelligently determines archiving object priority based on growth factor and optimal sequence, and includes the ability to:

• List archive objects impacted by archive objects based on size or growth rate.
• Identify which archive objects have been implemented successfully which ones have not been implemented.
• Flexibility to search archive objects from the top 50 or 2000 tables
• Produce pie chart display of percentage size occupied by archive object in the database
• Provide detailed data to enable data archive planning for  ‘quick wins’, and to utilize economy of scale processes

SDAT Archiving Effectiveness Analysis

Once data archiving has been implemented, tracking ongoing archiving effectiveness and completion is a challenge.  It is difficult to identify which records of an archiving session were actually archived, and those that were not.  Also, a typical archive run does not provide details of what records were archived and from what year they were actually archived

The Auritas SDAT Effectiveness Analysis tool resolves these challenges.   It quickly and easily identifies detailed information about the effectiveness of each data archiving session, including:

• Detailed status information about all archive sessions to determine the effectiveness of archiving objects vs. planned
• How many records were successfully archived, and how many sessions were not successful
• Details of what records were archived, and what year they were archived
• List and Graphical views of analysis results
• Easy verification of whether or not background jobs are being successfully executed