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SAS® Human Capital Management Adapter for SAP

Unlock human capital data trapped in SAP with the power of SAS®

Providing the powerful analytic, modeling and forecasting capabilities of SAS Human Capital Management, SAS Human Capital Management Adapter for SAP (as an add-on) unlocks workforce data in SAP systems, combines it with data from other sources and gives a complete, consistent view of your organization's human capital. Organizations that have invested significant sums of money into SAP and other enterprise operational systems that house valuable data can now increase the return on investment in SAP and gain a holistic view of the reality of the work force.

Benefits

  • Reduce time to intelligence.
  • Get a faster, less expensive implementation.
  • Attain greater control of costs.
  • Consolidate data.
  • Leverage your existing IT investment.

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Features

  • SAP Certification for integration and security/roles support with SAP enterprise software.
  • Open metadata framework with caching.
  • Server-side joins and data capture.
  • Understanding of SAP metadata and complex data hierarchies.
  • GUI-based code generation and data warehousing integration.
  • Data quality integration.

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" The knowledge of SAS personnel was important because they spoke the language of the bank's HR people and understood the issues and concerns of the department."

—Udo Cordara

Employees Development Director

Banca Carige

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Extracting, prepping and loading data into SAS Human Capital Management.


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Benefits

  • Reduce time to intelligence. By providing direct access to metadata and InfoCubes, this add-on to SAS Human Capital Management reduces the time to gain intelligence from SAP data. Data extraction can be done in hours, instead of days.
  • Get a faster, less expensive implementation. Predefined mappings between SAP and SAS Human Capital Management mean a quicker, more efficient implementation. You'll also be able to significantly reduce implementation costs, as this adapter minimizes the need for customization and long consultation phases.
  • Attain greater control of costs. A user-friendly interface enables managers and executives to access data, with less dependency on IT support. With less effort and money spent running ad hoc reports and manually manipulating employee data, IT resources are freed to work on other projects.
  • Consolidate data. The adapter combines inconsistent human capital data from SAP, as well as other sources, into a single source to identify patterns and trends, enabling proactive decision making.
  • Leverage your existing IT investment. SAS Human Capital Management Adapter for SAP builds upon and extends your enterprise's information infrastructure to make valuable workforce data in your SAP system available, leading to more reliable information for sound decision making.

Features

SAP Certification for integration and security/roles support with SAP enterprise software.
  • Recognized by SAP for its ability to integrate with the SAP system, providing security that your SAP data will be accurately and seamlessly transferred to SAS.
  • Adheres to SAP logon authentication and security model.
  • Reads SAP data dictionary.
  • Enables you to easily explore metadata and data structures without extensive knowledge of the SAP application.
  • With multiple language support, lets you view the metadata in your own language; no need to look at acronyms.
Open metadata framework with caching.
  • Integrates with the SAS Metadata Server to extend SAP metadata to a common, open metadata framework, allowing for consistent analysis and information sharing across the enterprise.
  • Offloads metadata browsing to the SAS application server so ERP system performance is not affected.
Server-side joins and data capture.
  • Uses server-side joins, batch extracts, etc., where appropriate, in extraction routines.
  • Brings only the data that matters across in an ETL process.
  • Extracts only the data that has changed in SAP, speeding up data integration processes.
Understanding of SAP metadata and complex data hierarchies.
  • Denormalizes SAP's InfoCube snowflakes into star schemas.
  • Finds and decomposes data in SAP InfoCubes, InfoAreas and navigates ODS.
GUI-based code generation and data warehousing integration.
  • Saves coding time with an interactive, GUI-based code generator.
  • Integrates with SAS Data Integration Studio to automatically generate the code necessary to retrieve required data from SAP applications.
  • Seamless data quality integration and fast integration with the enterprise data warehouse.
Data quality integration.
  • Integrates with other data sources, including Oracle, DB2, other SAP data, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle Applications, SQL Server and many more.
  • Directly adds data quality to your data integration processes.
  • Provides a point-and-click process to run SAP application data through SAS data quality routines to ensure quality and consistency.

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Extracting, prepping and loading data into SAS Human Capital Management.

Extracting SAP R/3 general and FI Tnnn tables, prepping and loading data into SAS Human Capital Management.

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Extracting, prepping and loading data into SAS Human Capital Management.

Extracting SAP R/3 cost center tables, prepping the data and loading the data into SAS Human Capital Management.

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System Requirements

Supported platforms

SAS servers, including Base SAS and SAS Metadata Server, can be installed on one or more hardware systems in a multitier configuration.

  • AIX (64-bit), Release 5.1+
  • HP/UX (64-bit), Release 11i+*
  • HP/UX Itanium (64-bit), Release 11i+
  • HP/UX PA-RISC
  • Linux for Intel (32-bit): Red Hat Linux 8.0, RHAS 2.1, RHEL 3.0, SuSE SLES 8, SLES 9
  • OS/390, Version 2, Release 10*
  • Solaris (64-bit) 8, 9, 10 on SPARC
  • Tru64 UNIX (64-bit), Version 5.1A or 5.1B*
  • Windows (x86-32): Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows NT 4 Server*
  • z/OS, Version 1

* Note: SAS Metadata Server must be installed on an alternate supported platform.

Required software

SAS Data Integration Server or SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server is required.

Supported SAP systems

  • SAP R/3 4.5B and higher
  • SAP BW 2.0 and higher

SAP Certification

SAS has been a SAP Technology Partner since 1991. SAS Data Surveyor's integration is certified for SAP Netweaver™, ensuring maximum reliability, scalability and manageability in a secure, easy-to-use framework that allows for seamless interoperability with SAP.

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