InfoShuttle® Data On Demand is the only Certified for SAP NetWeaver™ solution to offer a comprehensive and systematic way to move user-selected production data into existing non-production environments, such as development, QA and training.

As part of the InfoShuttle Suite of application data management solutions, Data On Demand provides a flexible method for replicating subsets of current master and transactional data while insuring full data integrity, reducing application and upgrade deployment risk, improving productivity and shortening development and test cycles.

Replicate Production Data to Non-Production Systems

The most valid data for SAP® functional specialists, developers and testers is current production data. However, getting new data into existing non-production environments using traditional utilities, without disruption of active projects, is nearly impossible. Similarly, entering records manually offers a poor alternative due to the many intricate dependencies that exist between SAP data objects.

By using comprehensive processes to select and replicate data between environments through an SAP standard interface, Data On Demand:

• Provides easy access to current, relevant production data
• Automatically captures business process data and all dependencies
• Eliminates manual record entry
• Reduces storage space requirements

Reduce Time, Lower Cost, and Improve Efficiency

Data On Demand accesses the InfoShuttle Content Library, the world’s most extensive repository of SAP objects and relationships, to detect all related master data and documents for high integrity transfer to the target system. As a result, data can be replicated from production systems into existing non-production clients by the person who needs the data: the functional specialist, developer or tester. Projects can be run in foreground or background mode, allowing other tasks to be completed while the data is being replicated. Data On Demand greatly streamlines a process that can typically take days, and reduces it down to hours or even minutes.

Furthermore, there is no need to know specialized code such as ALE, EDI, IDocs, BAPIs, or BDCs. Data can be moved easily by knowing key elements such as Sales Order Number, Customer Number, Material Number, dates, or BOM, etc. Since Data on Demand is accessed through the standard SAP interface, experienced users will find the product screens familiar and intuitive. And because the scenario created using a data subset is much smaller than the complete database, it requires less disk space on the target system, resulting in better system performance, decreased storage requirements and lower cost for non-production environments.

Minimize Risk in Application Change

Testing against real life application data ensures better performance in production environments. Using selected, current data enables:

• Improved application quality through shorter, more frequent test cycles.
  
  
• Lower deployment risk by using consistent test data across the enterprise.
  
  
• Increased speed of problem resolution, minimizing production system impact.
  
  
• Automatic regression testing of application changes to ensure data compatibility.
  

SAP customers can eliminate errors and accelerate deployment, ensuring that their businesses can be more productive, competitive and compliant.

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