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Saphir generiert übersichtliche ERwin®-Datenmodelle aus SAP/R3 Systemen. Dies bietet ungeahnte Möglichkeiten für SAP/R3-Kunden. Wo früher SAP-Modelle so aussahen:

Schafft Saphir in Zusammenarbeit mit ERwin® Klarheit:

10 Gründe, warum ERwin & Saphir für SAP/R3-Entwickler unverzichtbar sind (Englisch):

1. Clear E-R diagrams of your SAP R/3 system - graphical presentation of complex data structures greatly assists both business & technical users to better understand their SAP R/3 environment. Saphir and ERwin combine to provide the only tool-set capable of generating comprehensive E-R diagrams of customer specific implementations of SAP R/3.

2. Makes SAP R/3 look like any other data source - without a good understanding of the meta data, the SAP database is like a 'black-box' - holding vital business information but with no clear 'map' as to how the information is structured. Saphir and Erwin unlock the complex meta data structures of SAP and make R/3 as understandable as any other data source in the enterprise.

3. Analysis with no impact on SAP R/3 operational system - other than an initial meta data extraction Saphir makes no demands on the SAP R/3 operational system. Saphir creates its own repository of the meta data, allowing multiple users to carry out fast & sophisticated analysis and sub-modelling tasks with zero operational impact.

4. Unsurpassed Meta Data detail - few data environments are as large & complex as SAP R/3. Saphir effortlessly extracts full logical, physical, descriptive and relationship information from the SAP R/3 specific data dictionary. Allowing users to browse through the meta data and to create sub-models based on their specific search or project criteria.

5. Meta Data Navigation by Application Module - Saphir also allows users to navigate the data structures via the SAP R/3 application modules. This makes browsing and searching far more efficient for users interested only in a particularly functional area.

6. Publish meta data to the enterprise - ERwin's sophisticated web publishing capability is a most effective way of sharing the SAP R/3 meta data, models and diagrams across the business & technical user communities.

7. Reduce dependency on SAP R/3 team - often the only source of SAP R/3 data structure intelligence lies with the SAP team. Restrictive and expensive for any data modelling or integrated meta data management work involving SAP R/3 data. Saphir reduces this dependency through it's meta data intelligence capability. Putting the data modellers and business users back in control.

8. Compare differences between SAP R/3 releases & installations - each new release of SAP R/3 brings major problems understanding the changes to data base structures and assessing the impact, particularly where user developed systems enhancements are involved. Saphir solves this by allowing comparisons or impact analysis between different SAP R/3 versions. This comparison facility is also valuable when managing multiple or global implementations of SAP R/3.

9. Enable the design of data warehouses & add-on applications - these are the 2 key application areas for Saphir & ERwin. Identifying the relevant SAP tables and mapping these to the warehouse design are critical to a data warehousing project whether SAP BW or a 3rd party tool-set is used. This data structure information also provides vital input to the development of the data movement programs (ABAP or 3rd party). Integrating or extending a SAP system presents similar meta data intelligence challenges and Saphir & ERwin provide the required understanding and modelling platform for this design work.

10. Cutting the SAP R/3 model into manageable sections - the SAP R/3 model has around 25,000 base tables. As such it is difficult to consider how to make meaningful sense of this model without a specialist tool such as Saphir; sub-setting and feeding manageable sub-models to a modelling tool such as ERwin.

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Stephan Schmahl
Software Engineer
Tel.: ++49 941 8 30 36 20
stephan.schmahl@project-it.de