COMPARISON BETWEEN ORACLE AND SAP LANDSCAPE
No
1
ORACLE
Oracle Data
Base 11 G
2
Web Logic 11,g
3
Service
Oriented
Architecture
(SOA) V11, g
4
ADF
COMMENTS
SAP
COMMENTS
SAP HANA
SAP NetWeaver
Gateway Server
(Basis Admin +
Sys Admin
BPEL (db
Adaptor) API,
SAP PI v 7.2
SOAP to RAC
SOAP to JCO
SOAP to JDBC
OAD (old)
Web Dynpro v1,
Floorplan Manager
RIVER
FIORY +Open UI5
ABAP (BAPI &
BADI)
Data Analysis Tool
(Next Gen BI
Reporting tool)
5
APEX
LUMIRA
6
7
Oracle Reports
Oracle ?
Crystal Reports
SAP Analytics
8
Oracle EIM
PIM, EDQ, PDQ,
Product Hub
SAP EIM
9
Integration
SSO ,plus Look
&feel
Integration
Big data
Big Data
Data Quality
Advisor
Information
Steward , Data
Steward
SAP Portal
SUMMARY OF SAP TECHEND 10 Dec to 12Dec 2013 in BANGELORE
Pilog attendees:
Gideon Huisamen
Imad Syed
Wynand Nortje
Asif Mohammed
Smruti Mohanty
There were many subjects of interest discussed and exhibited by SAP during the
three days but we have decided to concentrate only on the following areas
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SAP HANA (See attached HANA Presentation)
SAP EIM Landscape
Latest development on the BAPI and PI (See Attached Document)
SAP Fiori, Lumira and Netweaver Gateway
SAP technology roadmap on Mobile solutions
(EIM) ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGER OF SAP
The EIM solution of SAP is very comprehensive and include all the following
modules /systems:
 SAP MDM
 SAP Data Quality Advisor
 SAP Information Steward v 4.2 (User interface for Domain expert)
 SAP Data Services v4.2 (Same module as “Information Steward” but user
interface for Technical Resources)
 The SAP Master data Governance (MDG) Module consist of:
o MDG-S for Suppliers
o MDG-M for Material (Has more than 400 fields for Material and also
have predefined workflows for Material)
o MDG-F for Finance
o MDG-C for Customers
o MDG for Custom Objects
The Pilog team attended many different sessions during the three days and
accumulated the following assumptions on EIM as derived from our interactive
sessions with the SAP forum specialists.
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SAP suggests using SAP Netweaver MDM only for Systems, which are not
under central governance. It appears that they also want to steer away for
Netweaver MDM and rather use SAP MDG in conjunction with SAP Data
Information Stewart and/or SAP Data Services for future structured
Governance projects. The following slide depict that MDG will be use for
Systems under Central Governance
SAP Enterprise MDM solution
Systems under central governance
LoB Customer
LoB Procurement
LoB Finance
LoB PLM
SAP Master Data Governance
Create master data in-line with
business processes (e.g.,
Master data
SAP NetWeaver MDM
Consolidate master data into a single view for
accurate analytics and operational insight (e.g.,
Other LoB
Integrated Product Development,
Supplier Management)
Mergers & acquisitions, product catalog, vendor
hierarchies)
Systems not under central governance
Legacy systems
Reporting and analytics
Business networks
Cloud
Solution today
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The process of profiling master data sources and the building of validation rules and
data quality scorecards to asses master data quality must be created within the SAP
Information Steward .
SAP Information Steward
Building the Case for Data Governance with
SAP Information Steward
Deploy SAP
Information Steward
Ÿ Perform current state
assessments to justify
investments in Information
Governance
SCM
Ÿ Profile master data
sources
Ÿ Build validation rules and
scorecards to assess
master data quality
Customer
8.03
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ERP
CRM
SRM
Non-SAP
Supplier
7.56
Material
8.79
Non-SAP
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SAP Data Services
“Information Highway” serving SAP and NON-SAP environments
SAP ERP, SAP CRM,
SAP MDG and MDM,
SAP NetWeaver BW,
…and non-SAP systems too!
Sybase, HANA,
Oracle, SQL,
DB2, HADOOP
PeopleSoft,
Oracle Apps,
Siebel, SFDC, etc
Files, XML,
HTML, Mainframe,
Excel, text, etc.
BAPIs / IDocs / Web Services
Data Migration,
Synchronization,
Real-Time, …
Data
Cleansing,
Enrichment
Data Profiling
SAP CRM,
SAP ERP,
SAP NetWeaver,
SAP BusinessOne
SuccessFactors
Data
Services
Engine
Text Data
Processing
Impact Analysis
Query,
Reporting,
Analysis,
and Dashboards
Data
Validation
HANA, BW, Sybase
Data Lineage
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Note that SAP Information Steward and the SAP Data Services is the same tool
but have different user interfaces GUI’s. Data Stewards/ Domain Experts work with
the Information Steward GUI and System developer work with the Data Services GUI
Data Quality Advisor
Data Quality Advisor guides data stewards to rapidly develop a solution
to measure and improve the quality of their information assets
Information Steward
Data Quality Advisor
Recommend
Assess
Ÿ Data Profiling
Ÿ Validation Rules
Ÿ Content Type
Discovery
Ÿ Cleansing Rules
Ÿ Match Rules
Tune
Ÿ View Before /
After Results
Ÿ Fine Tune With
What-If Analysis
Data Steward
Ÿ Publish Rules
Data Services Workbench
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SAP suggest you create and clean all your bulk master data first in the Information
Stewart / Data Services tool and them migrate the clean data (with SAP Solution
Manager to MDG)
SAP Master Data Governance
SAP MDG allows customers to take a unique business process
driven approach to govern master data
Line of business processes
LoB Customer
LoB Procurement
LoB Finance
LoB Manufacturing
Other LoB
Create Customer
master data
Create Supplier
master data
Create Financial
master data
Create Material of
master
Other
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PLM = Product Life Cycle Management
Consulting solution: Combined PLM/MDG Process
PLM
Perform changes
/creation without
governance
Create
Engineering Record
Engineer
Engineer
Close Engineering
Record
Engineer
Assign objects
(create/change)
Perform changes
/creation under
governance
Engineer
MDG-M
Request Creation/
Change of Material
Engineer
Review
Change Request
MD Expert
Complete
Material Data
Engineer
Approve
Change Request
MD Expert
MD Expert
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User centered design
Work center provides work lists, search and applications
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There are more that 400 fields available in MDM-M for the material area and there
are also predefined Workflows in this subsection
Creating a change request
Let the system check for business consistency and duplicates
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We’ve got MDG. Now what?
Material
Consolidation
Unit / Group
Cost Element
Org. Units:
Ÿ Company
Ÿ Profit Center
Ÿ Cost Center
Business Partner Attributes
Central Data
Roles
Units of Measure
Bank Details
Identification
Tax Numbers
Industry Sectors
Org. Unit Data
GL Account
Supplier & Customer
General Data
& Descriptions
Value
Financials and Controlling
Chart of Accounts
Basic & Classification Data
Financials
EAN, UPC
Addresses with Usage and Versions
Classification
Sales Data
Plant Data
Valuation
& Costing
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Business Partner Relationships
Supplier Attributes
Customer Attributes
General Data
General Data
Comp. Code Data
Comp. Code Data
Purchasing Data
Sales Area Data
Tax Indicators
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We’ve got MDG. Now what?
Ÿ How do I install and configure MDG?
Ÿ What are the deployment options?
Ÿ If I go with the standalone deployment how do I set it up?
Ÿ If I put it on the operational ERP how does it affect
my upgrade strategy?
Ÿ How do you handle configuration data sync?
Ÿ Can MDG syndicate to multiple ECCs ? And if yes
can those be on lower Enhancement packs that MDG?
Ÿ How to plan the project overall – prototype, in phases, big bang?
Ÿ How to implement MDG if there are multiple non harmonized
ERP systems?
Ÿ If there are different number ranges in the downstream
systems how MDG handles it in the
HUB scenario?
Ÿ Does our installed industry solution affect
MDG deployment options?
Ÿ We have multiple ERP instances on different EhP versions.
What are the options to roll out MDG?
Ÿ How is virtualization supported by MDG?
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SAP MDG deployment options
Consciously decide for a central hub or co-deployment
Deploy SAP MDG…
SAP MDG
… as standalone system /
master data hub
SAP SCM
…
SAP SRM
3rd party,
NWAs
SAP MDG
& SAP ERP
… on top of an
operational ERP
SAP ERP
SAP ERP, SCM,
CRM, SRM …
3rd party,
NWAs
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Initially customers went for Hub approach but dew to the new SAP upgrades and
functionality most companies prefer now the Co- Deployment process
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Two options to deploy MDG
Operational ECC/MDG
MDG Instance
MDG UI
MDG UI
Staging
Staging
SAP Finance
SAP Materials
Operational ECC
ECC Active
Master Data
In MDG box
SAP Supplier
SAP Finance
SAP Materials
ECC Master Data
(Cust., Vend., Mat., Fin.)
SAP Supplier
SAP Vendor
SAP Vendor
3d party data
3d party data
Custom Objects
Custom Objects
Reference Data
ECC Active
Master Data
In MDG box
Configurations
Reference Data
Configurations
Configurations
Co-deployment
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Regardless of what mechanism you choose, however, for the technical data
movements there is a layer of collaboration and approvals of the reference and
customizing data. Non of the solutions depicted on the top offer sufficient layer of
collaboration. Here comes MDG-X – a custom governance solution build for selected
customizing data on top of the technical transport layer. MDG-X is essentially the
same framework which all the MDG solutions are using underneath and it’s free of
charge for the MDG customers. We have numerous customers who implemented
MDG-X for their own reference data such as Locations or Company Codes. There is
another customer who took it to the extreme level and excelled at putting the MDG
layer of collaboration for the reference data. That customer identified 80 such
objects and capable of implementing a new object for less than a week now!
Governing Reference Data that is Customizing
(e.g. plants)
Customizing Template
MDG Reference Data
IMG
ID
Description
Cust.Attribute 1
Cust.Attribute 2
Cust.Attribute 3
…
WebUI
Transport
Data Replication
Framework
Solution Mgr.
ID
Description
Cust.Attribute 1
Cust.Attribute 2
Cust.Attribute 3
…
Cust.Attribute 3
IMG
SAP Master Data Governance extends the existing process with governance
Ÿ Start business-driven governance process on some attributes in MDG (ID, description, some “global”
attributes)
Ÿ Add all “SAP Template” attributes in the IMG in the customizing master system
Ÿ Complement local attributes (that are different per system landscape)
Transport
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After many sessions and taking in consideration the detail as depicted in the
abovementioned slides, the team have decided that Pilog must adopt the following
strategy in order to become a reseller in the SAP EIM spectrum.
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Pilog will concentrate only on MDG-M for now and will extend to the other
MDG area’s once we have established our “SAP MDRM” solution
We must get authorized via the SAP partner edge program to install SAP
MDG in conjunction with SAP Data Information Stewart and/or SAP Data
Services on our existing ECC 6 instance in Pilog
We must appoint a SAP Basis resource (in Pilog India) with good and
sufficient experience in SAP
We will arrange gotomeeting with Mr Ingo Rothley, Exec Manager of Mr
Christian Geiseler (Director EIM Solution Management, SAP Germany
Walldorf). Christian conducted all the EIM sessions in SAPTECH and have
confirmed that he will arrange a meeting with his Exec, Mr Rothley after I
presented to him our MDRM solution. He is especially interested in Pilog’s
Domain expertise and obviously our Data content.
We will identify a dedicated SAP team in Pilog (as we have done for Oracle )
and will task them accordingly
We will have to upgrade our existing SAP server to accommodate a DEV, QA
and PROD environment for both ECC and MDG
We will have to start train our resources on SAP HANA.
We will have to train our resources on the SAP Net Weaver Gateway and
Fiori
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OTHER Facts Important for Pilog on EIM
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MDS Master Data Services is the same system as MDG . SAP will use MDG
henceforth.
SAP Fiori
SAP Fiori is a collection of apps that represent the new SAP user experience paradigm.
These apps speak a consistent design language and make use of a common technical
infrastructure. By blurring traditional computing boundaries and by using interactive
and attractive UI elements, they provide a consistent end-to-end user experience and
can be used across all device types without creating additional implementation effort.
SAP Fiori offers various business roles a simple, easy-to-use experience for SAP software
functions, and works seamlessly on desktop, tablet or smartphone.
The latest Fiori release has 190+ apps supporting a variety of roles in lines of business
include HR, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales. The apps offer users the
ability to conduct transactions, get knight and take action, and view fact sheets and
contextual information.
The Fiori apps focus on the most critical and common activities and are designed around
how people work:
Role-based: Fiori apps decompose complex applications into a task-based experience
with one central entry point for each user.
Responsive: Fiori apps adapt to all sizes, devices, versions, and channels to provide a
common user experience across all channels
Simple: Fiori apps follow the 1-1-3 experience (1 user, 1 scenario, 3 screens). They know
and provide the right context and meaningful data integration.
Coherent: user experience with apps that speak the same design language. This implies
coherence for common activities as well as coherence for your brand.
Instant value: with a low barrier to adoption, enabling customers to adapt and users to
personalize.
SAP Lumira
SAP Lumira is a data manipulation, visualization, and storyboard creation tool. One can
connect to one or multiple data sources to create datasets in which one can manipulate
and clean up the data data. One can visualize the data with a diverse offer of graphical
charts and tables. These charts can be added to storyboards along with images, text,
and links to other sources. SAP Lumira is installed locally and can operate on either
remote or local data. The charts that are built on the datasets can be saved and sent out
by email. The datasets can be published to SAP Hana, SAP Explorer, the SAP Lumira
cloud, and SAP Streamwork activities.
A dataset and its charts that one creates in SAP Lumira are saved in documents with the
file format ‘.lums’. This is a document that contains the data source connection
information, the data definition and data, and the visualizations.
SAP Lumira is the product under the segment of Business Analytics from SAP.
With SAP Lumira, one can:
 Deliver faster time-to-insight in a repeatable, self-service way
 Maximize business knowledge with a combination of big picture insights and
granular details
 Accelerate decision-making with immediate, fact-based answers to complex
business questions
 Increase self-service data usage without adding to your IT department's
workload
 Visualize any amount of data in real time – with SAP HANA
SAP Lumira is available in Standard & Personal editions, with standard edition one can
connect to various data sources, transform & manipulate the data, perform live analysis
of the data with HANA, share with business objects explorer, where as personal edition
offers working with excel & CSV data sources, transform & manipulation of data.
Lumira standard edition is priced at USD. 995 per seat, where as personal edition is free
of cost.
SAP technology roadmap on Mobile solutions
IN ONE WORD – TWO-TIER architecture.
The future of SAP is a move back to a simplified two-tier architecture that consist of
the database and the client. Currently the database, app server (netweaver) and
client is the norm , a minimum of three levels. SAP will support the gradual re-write
off all their software on the new architecture, HANA can be used as the database in
conjunction of the other tiers to provide performance improvements, the idea is
however that the client will be re-written to support easy User Interfaces SAP itself
can not escape the Steve Jobs/ Apple consumerisation of IT by end-users wave /
requirement to provide easy , simple to create and use client apps.
FIRST TIER – HANA - Database
HANA is SAP’s high performance database consisting of the purchase of the SYBASE
data base products and a partnership with INTEL that provides the in memory
storage of data. This remove the necessity of aggregate structures, indexes etc. that
supports the reporting and management of the SAP ERPO modules
SECOND- TIER – Client
The client is provided by HTML 5 type of user interfaces, with easy to use and
navigate front-ends. A lot of new terminology is introduced, UI5 is coined to express
this requirement. Major portions of clients are deemed to be mobile and 2015 is
seen a target whereby each user would want to do some work / reporting etc. on his
mobile
SAP Corporate Strategy : See the following 2 slides, SAP targets cloud and mobile
solutions, database – wants to become number 2 db provider , also evident in the
replacement of the databases (SQL, DB2, Ora..) that supports SRM, CRM, ECC to be
replaced by HANA. The analytics is to be provided fast and efficiently by the in
memory db (HANA) from the cloud and served on mobile platforms.
Another slide that indicate the main pillars of their corporate strategy.
NOTE : The system of record that indicates the golden Record is now more
important than ever in the SAP strategy and forms a central point in the strategy.
MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT GET A SPECIAL FOCUS IN THE CORPORATE
STRATEGY OF SAP. W
ith out the system of record none of the four strategies
(monile, cloud, analystice and real time performance from the database) will be
effective or successful.
Economic and performance factors that drive the strategy :
The following slide indicates the importance of the HANA platform to support the
strategy.
The following slide shows the components of the HANA database and how it will coexist also with the existing platforms while the rewrite of the modules take place.
Due to sheer size and scope of the task it is very important that this can happen –
see their slogan – SAP Innovation without customer disruption.
The following two slides provide more detail of the HANA architecture and the
specific components. Pure implementation (without any legacy SAP systems to be
supported) would be HANA db and UI5 client that run on any client platform with a
browser.
SAP is pushing the MOBILE platform as the main component from a revenue aspect,
each device running from the platform will be licensed, the platform will do the
distribution / compilation of apps to different mobile platforms ie. Apple, android,
windows 8…
Another slide detailing the SAP mobile platform and SAP store.
Slide detailing how HANA supports the Cloud solutions and Cloud corporate
strategy, Note the interaction with the on-premise applications.
Lastly note the importance of business networks similar as the social media LinkedIn supports business networks. In our area of specific interest and importance is the
emphasis placed on the Ariba portal purchased recently and how this will support
business networks between suppliers and buyers. Our integration and support
towards Ariba is very important.
Some other references
TEC200<\\pilogfile\projects\@Partners\SAP\SAP%20TECHED%202013\TEC\TE
C200> - Technology Strategy - note the focus as Database provider, Mobile, Cloud,
Analytics and Big Data (memory) with the master data golden record (system of
record) as core.
RDP202<\\pilogfile\projects\@Partners\SAP\SAP%20TECHED%202013\RDP\RD
P202> - Master Data Road Map - Note MDM was seen as not a good fit by SAP inhouse architects and product owners, thus the move to create a product on the ECC
platform. Very few clients on MDM , much bigger growth already and forecasted in
the MDG space (this combines with Data Services and Information Steward). Note
the focus foreseen in future on business networks and master data as the provider
of trusted product, customer or supplier data for again Mobile, Analytics , Cloud
services (slide 17).
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P101> - Information Management Road Map - Note again the influences of Mobile,
Cloud, Big Data , Social Network and the need/requirement to get real time insights
from unstructured data sources (& bigger growth in unstructured data). Note where
is master data management vs data quality management and content management
(electronic media) - slide 8 in the bigger scheme of Enterprise
Information Management. Slide 16 and Slide 22 is good slides to indicate the
combination of components required to provide a typical master data management
solution as we would want to have it - SAP Data Services (ETL & typical deduplication, backend services), Information Steward (data quality rules and
reporting) and Master Data Governance (copy of ECC operational tables and
workflow)
RDP204<\\pilogfile\projects\@Partners\SAP\SAP%20TECHED%202013\RDP\RD
P204> - Information Governance - practical examples - see from slide 39 on how to
build a data quality strategy (rules, scorecards ...). Slide 53 and on provides a good
overview on Information Steward (data profiling and continuous monitoring).
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P208> - Master Data Governance Integration Scenarios with SAP Business Suite Note slide 10 , good overview of process, as noted previously and also indicated ,
you do require data services and master data information steward else you would
just have a copy of the ECC views (ie for MM) with a workflow engine provided. One
of the plusses with MDG is that you are working on top of ECC (even though a stage
area is provided) so the business logic of SAP itself is used to validate new /change
request entries. Note slide 17 and 18 for integration examples. Slide 26 and on for a
typical MM scenario.
RDP
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> - SAP MDG Framework configuration and Workflow development. Note both
Oracle, SAP and PiLog T8 workflow has BPMN as the standard it conforms to - thus
the gateways and options are very similar. Workflow ppt , exercise and solutions
can be found in this folder.