Performer Suite

How can Performer Suite support an SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA migration process?

Usually, the initial step in an SAP BW migration project is the complete mapping and documentation of the existing SAP BI environment. This lengthy and cumbersome effort can be dramatically reduced and simplified by using Docu Performer.

The next phase is identifying unused, orphaned and duplicated SAP BI objects and elements, to select what will be migrated to the new SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA environment and what has to be excluded. System Scout provides helpful tools to an overview and an analysis of SAP BI applications.

During the actual SAP BW migration process Migration Booster can support the consolidation process of old legacy systems or master data objects, the clean-up activities and the implementation of new naming conventions.

With Translation Steward the translation of SAP BW object documentation can be performed significantly faster and with considerably less labour during the migration project.

How can Performer Suite support SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA BI projects?

Each component of the Performer Suite can be also used after the migration during the maintenance and development activities in an SAP BW environment:

• Docu Performer can keep the documentation of an SAP BI environment always up to date automatically.
• System Scout identifies connected and dependent objects during SAP BI developments and its housekeeping functions can be used.
• Migration Booster can support the cleanup activities and the rebuilding and optimizing of the applications quicker and easier.
• Translation Steward can continuously update the object descriptions in all used languages.

Our SAP BI services for Performer Suite

Onespire Ltd. is certified Gold partner and distributor of bluetelligence Gmbh, the developer of Performer Suite. Besides offering the software licenses, we are providing professional SAP BI services for the implementation, usage and maintenance of the tools available in the package.

During the introduction phase our experts can present the four components of the Performer Suite and identify the possible use cases and advantages of the tools for your organization. Our team of SAP BI experts can implement the chosen solutions and train internal users to use the software efficiently.

We provide continuous support and an external resource pool during SAP migration projects and later during the everyday use and development projects of the new SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA environment.

Onespire Ltd.’s sizeable and professional team of SAP BI experts offer a reliable and cost-effective solution related to all components of the Performer Suite. Using Performer Suite, we can perform the complete migration of an SAP BW environment to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA significantly faster and at a lower cost.

Discover how the four powerful tools available in Performer Suite and our related SAP BI services can speed up your operation while reducing costs!

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What is Docu Performer used for?

Docu Performer is a software to create automated technical documentation for various SAP BI solutions.

The tool, which is a component of the Performer Suite, is easy to implement and operate and has powerful additional features such as scheduling the generation of documents, creating versions for IT users and business users and sharing.

Supported SAP systems and components include SAP Business Warehouse products, SAP ERP & S/4, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects and SAP Analytics Cloud – SAC.

Our company, Onespire Ltd. is a certified distributor of the Docu Performer and our experts are trained to use and support the software. Based on our sizeable and experienced SAP BI team, we can help you to implement and efficiently use Docu Performer.

Discover how we can make the documentation of your SAP Business Intelligence developments, projects and daily operation significantly faster with considerably less resources!

Docu Performer’s main features

1. Create a comprehensive and always up-to-date documentation for SAP BI solutions

• Easily add comments to the documentation, collect business knowledge and technical details.
• Provide users a credible and comprehensive SAP Business Intelligence documentation, which represents the current state of the SAP BI environment.

2. Bulid a consistent SAP BI documentation, across systems

• Collect all information about relevant SAP objects of projects, data models and applications across all systems and display it in one structured, consistent and searchable document.
• Discover useful details about objects, such as data flows, where-used lists and look-ups.
• Increase the informational content of the SAP BI documentation.
• Show connections between objects and entities and follow a self-defined, consistent standard.

3. Offer a centrally available SAP BI documentation

• Provide custom versions for technical and business users, in different languages.
• Store the SAP BI document library in a central location such as SharePoint or in Confluence and make it available for authorized users.

4. Generate an always up-to-date SAP BI documentation, effortlessly

• Automate and schedule the update of SAP BI systems documentation.

Our services related to the Docu Performer tool

As the official distributor of Docu Performer, Onespire Ltd. supports internal SAP BI teams in the installation and use of Docu Performer.

Learn how we can make the documentation of SAP BI developments, BI projects, day-to-day operations and preparation for SAP BW-BW/4HANA migration much faster, with significantly less manpower.

Request a Docu Performer demonstration, our SAP BI experts will demonstrate the functions and capabilities of the tool and answer all your questions!

Why is it important to document SAP BI systems?

There are different reasons why in most cases it is necessary to document the SAP objects of projects, data models and applications:

• complying with various internal and external requirements,
• ensuring that changes made in the systems are transparent and understandable,
• informing business users about the state of the SAP ecosystem,
• protecting valuable know-how and intellectual property,
• approve changes made in the SAP BI solutions,
• understanding the data model when transferring it between responsible parties (e.g. from a consultant to the client).

What are the disadvantages of the manual documentation method of SAP BI solutions?

Unfortunately, there are no standard SAP tools currently available for the technical documentation process of SAP BI objects. Therefore, the technical documentation and commenting of various SAP Business Intelligence solutions is a time consuming, tedious, error prone, dull and never-ending manual task. It is a costly and continuous operation, yet it often produces an outdated and incomplete documentation, resulting in a difficult to use and unreliable knowledge base.

Since the manual SAP technical documentations are usually created by more than one person, the items differ in many aspects, have no uniform concept and standards, which makes them hard to comprehend and compare.

Searchability in the manual SAP BI documentation is usually rather ineffective or even impossible due to the inconsistencies and other limitations.

The manual documentation often contains many screenshots, which are not searchable and the information might be hard to read due to the size or quality issues or even completely missing from the image.

Since the manual SAP Business Intelligence documentation has only one version, an item might be too detailed for a business user or lacking the required information for a BI developer.

Central storage of the technical SAP documentation, version management and sharing the documents with the authorized users is also often not possible along the manual documentation process.

Which SAP systems and components does the Docu Performer support in the documentation and commenting process?

The Docu Performer is capable of creating technical documentation for the following SAP systems and components, with the additional commenting capabilities.

SAP Business Warehouse products:

• SAP BW on HANA up to version 7.5
• SAP BW/4HANA

SAP ERP & S/4:

• ABAP Stack
• Tables / Views
• ABAP CDS

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation:

• SAP BPC Standard 10.0, 10.1, 11.0 versions
• Environments
• Models, Dimensions
• BFPs (Business Flow Process), Scripts Logics

SAP HANA:

• Catalog
• Content
• Security

SAP Business Objects, SAP BO:

• Design Studio
• Web Intelligence
• Analysis for Office
• SAP Lumira

SAP Analytics Cloud – SAC:

• Stories

Output formats:

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• PDF
• HTML

Our services related to Docu Performer

Onespire Ltd., as a certified Docu Performer distributor can help your SAP BI team to implement and use Docu Performer.

Discover how we can make the documentation of your SAP BI developments, BI projects, daily operation or the preparation for an SAP BW to BW/4HANA migration significantly faster with considerably less labor costs.

Request a Docu Performer demonstration now and our SAP BI experts will show you the features and capabilities of the tool and answer your questions!

What is System Scout used for?

System Scout is a software to analyze and maintain SAP systems. The tool, which is a component of the Performer Suite, is easy to implement and operate and has many powerful analysis functions.

Supported SAP systems and components include SAP Business Warehouse products, SAP ERP & S/4, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects and SAP Analytics Cloud – SAC.

Our company, Onespire Ltd. is a certified distributor of the System Scout and we are trained to use and support the software. Our SAP Business Intelligence experts can help you to implement and efficiently use System Scout.

Discover how we can help you to analyze and maintain SAP your systems quickly and easily!

Analyze and maintain your SAP systems easily and quickly with System Scout

In larger organizations the SAP Business Intelligence landscape can be rather complex and its elements entwined in a confusing and hard to oversee manner. The SAP BI environment can contain a number of diverse systems modified over the years, with a large number of objects, all interlocked.

To efficiently manage and maintain an SAP Business Analytics environment, developers and experts have to be able to understand its structure, to analyze any of its elements and discover the connections between various objects and components.

Main features of System Scout: Tools to analyze SAP BI objects

The System Scout tool offers a collection of functions to analyze the SAP systems used. These can be used in various situations when working with SAP BI solutions, such as:

• Get an overview of applications, data models (Data Flow Analysis, Object Analysis).
• Perform impact and mapping analysis (Where-Used Analysis, InfoObject Mapping, Data Lineage).
• Keeping SAP BI system organized and clean (Housekeeping).

Data Flow Analysis

The SAP BW Data Flow Analysis can display the following information, providing an overview of the whole data model for BW, SAP HANA and CDS views:

• MultiProvider, InfoCubes, DSOs (Data Store Objects)
• CompositeProvider and ADSOs (Advanced Data Store Objects)
• (BW for HANA objects)
• InfoSets
• Characteristics (InfoProvider)
• 3.x – 7.x InfoSources
• Sem. Part. Objects
• HybridProvider
• Open ODS Views
• Destinations
• Aggregation Levels
• DataSources

These visualizations can be customized with layers, different levels of details and exclusions.

Object Analysis

Besides the overview it is also possible to focus on a single object. Buildup for SAP BW, BO and HANA:

• Analyze the structure of one or more objects.
• Display the buildup and the subordinated elements of one or more objects.
• Compare the buildup of the object across systems.
• Get a quick overview of possible differences.

Impact and mapping analysis

This tool offers a variety of functions to help understanding where information comes from, starting at from data source up to the composite provider itself. Mapping analysis can be used to:

• Explain how certain information is processed.
• For troubleshooting.
• To display a Data Flow Tree Structure.
• Create Data Lineage analysis, showing where each object of an InfoProvider comes from.

SAP BI Housekeeping

This function offers a variety of methods to clean up the SAP BI environment, such as:

• Listing InfoProviders without Usage in Data Flows.
• Creating Last Load and Usage Analysis.
• Showing inactive Objects.
• Listing unused InfoObjects.
• Checking Name Conventions of SAP BW entities.
• Offering selections by special Components.
• Showing Entities with identical technical names.
• Comparing Entities of Systems.
• Analyzing and comparing Elements.

Our services related to System Scout

Onespire Ltd., as a certified distributor can help your SAP BI team to implement and use System Scout.

Discover how we can make the analysis and maintenance of your SAP systems easier with significantly less labour.

Request a System Scout demonstration now and our SAP BI experts will show you the features and capabilities of the tool and answer your questions!

What is the main purpose of the Migration Booster tool?

The Migration Booster is a very efficient tool during any greenfield or brownfield SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA migration, where applications are rebuilt to optimize them for the new environment. It can support the consolidation process of old legacy systems and master data objects, the cleanup activities and the implementation of new naming conventions.

Discover how we can make the analysis and maintenance of your SAP systems easier with significantly less labour using Migration Booster!

Major challenges during SAP BW to BW/4HANA migration projects

Conversion

There is no option to optimize existing content for SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA.

Reusability

It is not possible to reuse established SAP BI data models and queries.

Effort

Rebuilding data models and queries requires a high level of costly manual efforts.

How can Migration Booster support SAP BW to BW/4HANA migration projects?

Conversion

With Migration Booster it is possible to:

• optimize existing SAP BW content for SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA,
• rename SAP BI entities,
• change existing SAP BI structures,
• consolidate entities and systems.

Reusability

The tool enables the convenient reuse of various InfoProvider, InfoObjects and Reporting Elements.

Effort

Migration Booster reduces the resources needed for the SAP BW to BW/4HANA migration projects by allowing the reuse of existing SAP BI data models.

Efficient SAP BW to BW/4HANA migration with Migration Booster

Collect relevant objects easily and conveniently

Identify and collect InfoProviders which should be migrated from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA with Migration Booster’s graphical data model for any greenfield or brownfield SAP migration project. With the automatic collection tool all dependent PartProviders and InfoObjects will be automatically assembled, so they can be also included in the migration if needed.

Quick and consistent conversion and labeling

The selected elements can be converted to SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA optimized objects at the touch of a button. With the predefined mapping tables the namespaces of the objects can be changed automatically. This will result in a uniform and consistent structure in the target system. The properties of the objects can be adjusted during the transfer on the fly for easy remodeling.

Fast export including existing queries

With Migration Booster the export of the adjusted objects is easy to the new environment.

Move in at lightning speed: Export includes existing queries

Easily export objects that have been adjusted and renamed in Migration Booster to your new SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA system. Copy existing queries to a new InfoProvider and rename any contained report elements simultaneously.

Using Migration Booster’s functions, the duration of the SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA migration process can be significantly reduced and the new SAP system can go live sooner. The redesign process of the SAP system is easier, and the proven existing methods and queries can be used as a fallback.

Copy and reuse existing SAP queries in the new SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW on HANA environment

In an SAP BW migration project queries have to rebuild in the new target SAP system, which requires significant resources.

Using Migration Booster existing queries in the source systems can be reused by moving them to the target system. This is done by copying them to the new InfoProviders, ensuring compliance with previous renaming of InfoObjects.

Our services related to System Scout

Onespire Ltd., as a certified distributor can help your SAP BI team to implement and use System Scout.

Request a System Scout demonstration now and our SAP BI experts will show you the features and capabilities of the tool and answer your questions!

Translation Steward

What is Translation Steward used for?

Translating documentation is essential when multinational teams are involved in the implementation, migration or maintenance of an SAP BW solution. Without an up-to-date SAP BW documentation, cooperation between colleagues speaking different languages is difficult, slow and error prone. Manual translation of SAP BW documents puts a constant and heavy load on the SAP BI team, while the results are usually delayed, inconsistent, partial and contain mistakes.

Discover Translation Steward, which offers a user-friendly, fast, intelligent and automatic translation for all SAP BW objects in all languages.

The disadvantages of manual SAP BW system translation

Inventory

Existing SAP BW object descriptions in every logon language have to be checked manually.
The locations where descriptions are maintained also have to be identified.

Translation

The manual translation of SAP BW object descriptions creates an immense effort for larger SAP systems.
Manual translation includes inconsistencies and mistakes, which makes their use inefficient and cumbersome.

External support

The outsourcing of SAP BW translations is not possible in SAP.
The translation can be done by the users only, who might neglect their core tasks as a result.

The benefits of using Translation Steward

Inventory

Translation Steward displays all existing and missing SAP BW object descriptions in all available languages.
The tool also shows the location of each description for easy management of the translations.

Translation

With Translation Steward it is possible to mass rename entire SAP BW systems.
The intelligent tool allows external mass translation also.
Built-in intelligent dictionary suggests existing SAP BW object translations.

External support

It is possible to export the SAP BW object descriptions in the source language to a Microsoft Excel sheet and have it translated outside the SAP environment and later import the results back to SAP.
The changed objects can just as easily be written to a transport request, so that the changes can also be transferred to other systems.

Our services related to Translation Steward

Onespire Ltd., as a certified Translation Steward distributor can help your SAP BI team to implement and use the translation tool. Discover how we can make the translation of your SAP BW object documentation significantly faster with considerably less labor!

Request a Translation Steward demonstration now! Our SAP BI experts will show you the features and capabilities of the tool and answer your questions.

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