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Simplify SAP ECM Processes using SharePoint and Office 365Lower Cost. Higher Adoption. Shorter Time to Value.
Fabio Foroni – Kisiwa Technologies
September 8, 2017
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SAP is Complex….…and not the preferred application for enterprise users to manage content.
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SAP content is silo’d… …and is cost prohibitive to enable Enterprise Content Management
NOT FAMILIAR
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NO
ACCESS
FAMILIAR
Workplace
Documents
Data
Process
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SAP Workflow Development is complex… …with lengthy and competing dev, test, QA and production cycles
• Methods
• Attributes
• Binding
• Agent Assignment
• tRFC calls
• BOR objects
• ABAP classes
• Exceptions
• Events
• Transports
DEV TEST QA PROD!
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EXPENSIVE
RESOURCE
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INEXPENSIVE
RESOURCE
Low-Code
No-Code
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SAP legacy ECM integrations are complex……and costly (Maintenance, storage, infrastructure, upgrades, admin/skills)
Consolidated LandscapeLegacy Landscape
File Shares
Other CM Apps
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“the cost of keeping something in memory in HANA is not feasible” unless it has immediate/high business value” - Gartner
64GB/Y in HANA cost $148,678.11 ($2,323/GB/Y) Retail Customer
1TB/Y in HANA cost $1,326,876 ($1,325/GB/Y) Oil & Gas Customer
You can reduce capital and operating hardware costs as well as other operating costs by shrinking the size of your database… it is strongly recommended to .. remove any unnecessary data…. 1 - SAP
“Once you buy a certain size, that’s all you get.” To offload terabytes, you have to move data to another database or migrate to a bigger system,”2
Why not use your existing 0365 Capacity
1TB/Tenant + .5GB per user, likely unused… 3
SAP HANA In-Memory is expensive……and SAP recommends archiving to reduce cost
1 SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Cookbook– SAP, August 4 20152 HANA Deployment Lessons Learned from CenterPoint Energy – Craig Powers, July 2015, ASUG3Additional storage $0.20/GB/Mo
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Workplace for SAP Solutions
Challenges Addressed
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What’s in SAP That Benefits From “Content Enablement”?
Financial Accounting
Purchasing
Delivery Management
Sales
Master Data
Plant Maintenance
Human Resources
Customer
Purchase Requisitions Purchase Orders Contracts
Inbound Deliveries Outbound Deliveries Goods Movement
Quotations Sales Orders Contracts
Vendor Material
Functional
LocationNotificationsEquipment Work Orders
Travel ManagementEmployee Records
Accounts ReceivableAccounts Payable
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Common SAP Documents to Manage• Travel & Expenses BUS2089/Travel
• Trip report and Expenses
• Service Orders
• Service Order Sign off
• Customer Invoices VBRK
• Customer Checks and remittance
• Real Estate Master
• Contracts
• Fixed Asset Master
• Vendor Invoices
• Manuals and Contracts
• Purchase Orders BUS2012/EKKO
• Receiving documentation
• Purchase Order Request
• Material Document
• Receiving Documentation
• WBS Elements BUS2001
• FI Documents BKPF / BUS2081
• Vendor Invoices
• Correspondence
• Sales Orders VBAK(BUS2008)
• Customer Purchase Orders
• Delivery LIKP
• Signed Bills of Lading
• Vendor Master LFA1
• Contracts
• Customer Master KNA1
• Contracts
• Terms
• Credit Application
• Material Master MKPF
• CAD Drawings
• MSDS Sheets
• HR Documentation PREL
• Entire Personnel folder
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ERP-Link 4.0 for SAP ECM in the MS Cloud
Deployment flexibility for a cloud world
Select the ECM Infrastructure Model that best fits the
business requirements
• On Premise with SAP Systems
• On Premise in Domains separate from SAP systems
• Private Cloud
• MS Azure IAAS
• MS Azure PAAS
• MS O365
• Hybrid combination with any of the above
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Case Studies
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Gimmal Customers
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Effectively
manage the
40,000 active
construction
projects
Access
construction
related content
in the SAP
Project System
Construction and
plant maintenance
content universally
available in elastic
storage
Make it easy for
project managers
to find
the content
they need
What they needed to do:
Move 100TB to O365Note the MS Win: Competitive RDBMS Replacement DCMT & FileNET
O365 SharePoint Used for SAP Business Apps
Capital Project Management in SAP with Office 365
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Organization
o One of the worlds largest Agribusinesses
o 450 Manufacturing Plants
o Distribution networks in over 50 Countries
o Workforce of over 92,000 people
o Established in 1991 – listed on the Singapore stock exchange
o Grown to over $43B USD revenue
Improved A/P, Plant Maintenance Processes & IT Infrastructure SimplificationGimmal Case Story
Move 60TB to SharePoint/O365Note the MS Win: Competitive RDBMS Replacement of OpenText
O365 SharePoint Used for SAP Business Apps
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Improving HR with SAP and
SharePoint at unicef
Employees will seamlessly move from country to country with
their paperwork following them
Temporary staff can be quickly on-boarded to deal with a crisis
anywhere in the world
Paper carrying costs are lowered throughout the organization
Office 365 allows global access, lower IT overhead and to sunset
the costly legacy OpenText System
ProblemThe NGO needed to improve the HR performance
of a World-Wide staff, with ever shifting
jurisdiction and staffing levels
Solution
Automate the SAP Employee Records process to
deliver an enterprise-wide Electronic Employee
Records System.
Benefits
HR Costs will be lowered worldwide allowing the
NGO to deliver better services
Components
Microsoft: Office 365 and SharePoint Online as a
content repository
Gimmal: Gimmal ERP-Link Suite, iGs and Cs for
SharePoint & SAP
Third Party: Kofax KTS to capture paper recods
11,000 Employees | 1,800,000 images
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Questions & Answers
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www.gimmal.comwww.kisiwa.it
Fabio Foroni