Ardent Africa, the enterprise infrastructure company, has announced the availability of DataStage Extract PACK for SAP R/3 on three Unix platforms: IBM`s AIX, Sun Solaris and HP-UX 10/11. This is in addition to Windows NT, which has been supported since Version 1.0.
"Many companies want to use data from SAP R/3 to drive business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM) and e-business applications," says Simon Jeggo, GM of Ardent SA. "This data is not inherently suitable for deployment in these applications, which is where DataStage`s Extract Pack comes in. It extracts, transforms and loads this data, ensuring data quality and coherency are maintained. In addition, it integrates SAP R/3 data with third-party data to ensure a single source for populating the data warehouse."
Ardent has closed five deals and has 12 customers around the world actively undertaking proofs of concept testing the Extract Pack for SAP R/3. SAP`s largest R/3 customer, Siemens, is a reference site, and SAP`s second largest site is now involved with a proof of concept.
"Enterprises developing business intelligence infrastructure are demanding platform-independent solutions that integrate data, not only from their ERP systems, but also from information points throughout the organisation," says Doug Laney, senior programme director for META group. "Enterprises continue to gravitate toward leading data warehouse vendors such as Ardent for open, industrial-strength solutions that support heterogeneous infrastructures, enable flexible architectures, tightly integrate ERP application meta data, and provide a wider variety of data transformation functionality."
Ardent`s DataStage Extract PACK for SAP R/3 enables users to extract data directly from SAP R/3 systems natively and integrate it with data from other sources, leveraging the visual design process of DataStage for modelling and deploying source-to-target transformations and loads. This process is supported by an extensive set of built-in libraries for complex transformations.
Ardent`s DataStage Load PACK for SAP BW adheres to the SAP standard interface protocol, BAPI, supporting high-performance loading of the Business Information Warehouse from heterogeneous sources.
The SAP BW is designed specifically for decision support needs, and is optimised for SAP R/3 systems. SAP BW is open to different source systems, and includes a broad range of predefined reporting templates geared to the specific needs of particular industries and user types, such as production planners, financial controllers, or human resources directors. Ardent`s DataStage PACK products extend support for heterogeneous sources.
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