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If your SAP® application requires a enterprise-wide, heterogeneous
automation solution, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler™ is your remedy. With the
Adapter for SAP, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler brings the automation,
manageability and reliability of the premier enterprise application
automation and management solution to this leading ERP/SCM/CRM application
platform. You can finally maximize the productivity gains of your SAP jobs
by setting dependencies to and from other platforms and programs, including
external non-SAP applications. This means your SAP jobs can now be part of
larger business process workflows that are managed from a single console.
And, as a result, application automation and management across your company
can be consolidated under one solution to reduce unnecessary staff effort
and expense, while increasing productivity.
Key Benefits
- Leverages your SAP investment to create a comprehensive business
automation solution for your enterprise
- Connects SAP applications to other platforms, business
applications and other SAP instances with unlimited dependencies and
steps for broader, integrated workflows
- Consolidates SAP application automation under one corporate-wide
console solution with one staff and one set of internal procedures
- Reduces training and operational support staff to one
application automation environment
- Provides richer, more advanced automation and management
functions than the native SAP CCMS scheduler for greater efficiency
and productivity
- Decreases downtime by providing monitoring and alert mechanisms
for SAP components and processing from a single console
- SAP Integration Certified to maintain your SAP maintenance
agreements
Key Features
- Allows schedule automation for all SAP process types: ABAP
programs, external programs, external commands, infopackages and
process chains.
- Provides ability to monitor, set dependencies on, and interact
with, child processes as well as parent processes, logs and output
are grouped to show parent-child relationships
- Imports SAP job steps directly into Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
- Utilizes Scheduler and user-defined variables in ABAP Variants
- Transfers immediate knowledge through seamless integration with
SAP by displaying familiar SAP job names, valid commands and steps
from scheduler screens
- Delivers the same print and archive parameters as SAP GUI using
picklists.
- Links SAP events to Tidal Enterprise Scheduler events to create
event-driven launch of SAP jobs
- Balances production jobs with user-submitted jobs by integrating
SAP “Job Interception” function seamlessly with Enterprise Scheduler
Queue Management
- Integrates SAP Business Warehouse process chains and
infopackages with drill-down function to alter these processes
- Combines real-time status of SAP jobs with real-time interaction
- Supports multiple SAP instances and environments
- Creates user-defined, filtered, real-time Windows® Explorer
style view of past, present and future SAP jobs
- Uses automatic alert notification for SAP processing problems,
machine problems, and job status problems
- Offers richer, more extensive calendar options for scheduling
SAP jobs
- Captures and displays error messages on SAP runs, providing more
informative error messages and logging from the scheduler functions
- Handles the heaviest SAP processing loads with a multi-threaded
adapter
The Tidal Enterprise Scheduler Job Definition dialog box automatically
presents SAP data to the user, eliminating the need to remember and type in
program names, variants and printers.
How Enterprise Scheduler Adapter for SAP Works
The Enterprise Scheduler Adapter for SAP interfaces to CCMS using SAP’s XBP
technology and to BW (as well as APO) using the Infopackage and Process
Chain APIs. Both of these Adapter interfaces are certified by SAP as meeting
its specifications for integration.
The SAP Adapter uses an automated install with options to implement the
adapter for your requirements. No scripting or manual intervention is
required, and no changes to your SAP instance are needed.
Once the adapter is configured, you can define and maintain the details
of SAP jobs from within Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler can also launch and monitor jobs already created within SAP. The
full functionality of Tidal’s heterogeneous automation solution is now
available to SAP, offering functions such as extensive alerts on job
abnormalities, unavailability of resources or machines, real-time status
information from a single console and the ability to interact with current
and future jobs as needed.
Call Tidal Software for more information, to see a demo or to receive
a free evaluation of Horizon.
1-877-55-Tidal
sales@tidalsoftware.com
