Global Business Technology has announced that Acta Technology`s ActaWorks has received certification from the SAP Integration and Certification Centre (ICC) for its interface to the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). Acta, which provides solutions that address the challenges of building ERP data warehouses, is a member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP) and a provider of data warehousing solutions for ERP applications. Global Business Technology (GBI) is the South African distributor for Acta products. ActaWorks is Acta`s ERP-to-data warehouse extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) solution.
ActaWorks has been interface-certified by SAP to load operational data into SAP BW, improving SAP customers` decision support capabilities.
"This certification is important for us," says GBI MD Mark Williams. "SAP BW represents a strategic focal component in many SAP customers` data warehousing strategies, but there is much enterprise-wide data that resides outside SAP BW. With the Acta product suite, we can help SAP customers extend SAP BW`s functionality by rapidly populating it from multiple data sources."
Using the SAP BW Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI), ActaWorks can now seamlessly link ActaWorks with SAP BW, enabling companies to gain an enterprise-wide view of their corporate data for improved business intelligence.
More than 50 customers, including Chevron, Church & Dwight, Monsanto, PG&E and Shell Chemical, use ActaWorks to develop and deploy ERP-based data marts and warehouses.
ActaWorks for SAP BW links SAP R/3 applications with a data warehouse based on a consistent business model. ActaWorks extends the power of SAP BW, and helps accelerate its implementation and facilitates ongoing enhancements by:
* Integrating multiple ERP and non-ERP data sources using one tool and a single graphical user interface. * Facilitating incremental extraction and loading of only changed data into SAP BW.
ActaWorks extracts data from ERP systems and other sources, transforms and cleanses the data, and loads it into a data warehouse or data mart for strategic business analysis. Unlike other extraction tools, which attempt to extract data directly from the application`s underlying database, ActaWorks extracts data and essential business information via the ERP software application layer, the only way to ensure access to all data and business logic. Data mappings, transformations, and control logic to manage a complex, multi-step data warehouse process are specified using a graphical user interface without writing any code, and are stored in a metadata repository.
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