Qlik Replicate with SAP
SAP is one of the most widely used systems across numerous organizations. Performing operations like advanced data analytics, faster processing of data and real-time data warehousing, on both on premises and in the cloud, it is one of the most critical applications for business. SAP also provides multiple applications like ECC, HR and CRM which are used across teams within an organization. A lot of data transfers too occurs within these applications which gives rise to the data sharing challenges. All of these applications handle business critical data and this data needs to be available for the business intelligence and analytics teams and customer service optimizing teams to improve the operations and deliver competitive advantage. This calls for the need of a tool that integrates data from all the SAP applications and made available to the respective teams and platforms. These tools are called SAP data replication tools. Qlik Replicate is one such solution.
The main challenge in integrating SAP data is the complex structure in which it is stored. SAP systems store data in the form of tables which are intricately linked with one another. Qlik Replicate aims to address this issue. It implements CDC (change data capture) technology where the data is integrated in real time. Data transfer to off premises for cloud-based analytics is feasible too. SAP data ingestion to data warehouse and data lakes are performed as well. All the structured SAP data can be integrated with the unstructured data coming from IoT or any other social media sources. External data transfer from non-SAP sources into SAP HANA is also made easily with Qlik.
Qlik being a high-performance, easy-to-use data replication tool, supports all core SAP applications allowing you to replicate every transaction, document and data. The web-based console provides simple configurations, also allows you to control and monitor the replication tasks across all sources and targets. Transactions can be applied both in order and in real time. All of these activities can be done with zero downtime. Thus, the production systems will never need to be disturbed. Neither the performance nor the integrity of the production systems is messed up. Another plus with this tool is that no external hardware is used to implement the replication.
Qlik captures data from SAP applications and transfers the complex SAP formats into tables. The data is compressed, encrypts and transferred with the help of batch processing and CDC in parallel streams. The data is later incrementally transferred across cloud architectures like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platforms. Data is also stored in RDBMS, data warehouses, files and also in Mainframes. Thus, an end-to-end data integration is achieved helping the organization to deeply understand customer behavior. Qlik has gained a lot of popularity because of these primary factors and the hype is totally worth it.
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