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Tidal™ Enterprise Adapter for SAP®
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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
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