DECEMBER 2019CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM 19DATAVARD's data management suite--OutBoard--is capable of achieving up to 90 percent compression rate and can be easily deployed. As an add-on inside the SAP system, OutBoard segregates analytical and transactional data, documents it according to operational relevance, and stores the data automatically in various databases. This enables companies to reduce the database volume, improve the performance of their SAP systems, and simultaneously save operating costs. It can be linked to every SAP-certified database management system, SAP IQ, as well as cloud-based storage systems.Archive Data with OutBoardOwing to OutBoard, DATAVARD has earned a place in Gartner's `Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement' in 2015. "What Mercedes is to the automobile industry, OutBoard is to the SAP landscape. Several industrial giants have integrated their SAP systems with OutBoard that runs in the background to provide valuable business insights," remarks Stöckler.While implementing its solution, DATAVARD works in close cooperation with clients and maintains open communication with them. The company first creates a proof of concept and provides frontline consulting to help clients precisely understand how the solution functions. "The prime objective is to build a long-lasting partnership with clients and empower them to optimally operate the OutBoard suite within their IT departments," mentions White. DATAVARD's offerings, including OutBoard and HeatMap among others, have a proven track record of successfully reducing costs and improving performance for clients across various industries. They have registered immediate enhancement in their production environments. One of these clients, a publicly listed German life sciences company, managed to dramatically shorten a job that ran for 11 hours to just five minutes with DATAVARD's help. Similarly, in the case of Eni, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, DATAVARD reduced the database size by 78 percent.DATAVARD's project for Kion, a leading manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse technology in Europe, further substantiates OutBoard's effectiveness in reducing the system size. With the acquisition of numerous new companies and development of applications in recent years, Kion's SAP BW had grown from 6 to 11 TB in size, which resulted in longer query times. The truck manufacturer needed an archiving solution that was future-proof, flexible, and easy to implement as well as operate; OutBoard proved to be a natural fit. DATAVARD helped the client archive 120 of the largest BW objects, thus achieving a compression rate of 91 percent. Consequently, Kion reported a performance improvement of 25 percent.Managed ServicesBesides improving the speed and performance of SAP systems, DATAVARD's OutBoard frees up organizations' resources to focus on innovation that deliversa competitive advantage to businesses. "In an increasingly complex IT landscape, organizations struggle to deal with new technologies and hence, fail to focus on innovation. On the one hand, enterprises are marching toward simplification of the SAP landscape, and on the other, they are making purchase decisions for single, isolated use cases. The proliferation of these small, single-purpose solutions further complicates the overall IT operations," adds White. As a result, DATAVARD's ability to manage organizations' SAP-related operational tasks and allow developers to carry out strategic projects is a huge advantage; the company offers managed services to help clients solve problems beyond their existing capacity. Depending on their unique needs and circumstances, clients outsource either the highly repetitive, time-consuming tasks or the operation of their innovation teams to DATAVARD.Optimizing SAP Systems for HANA MigrationDATAVARD invests a significant amount of time and resources in R&D to continually enhance its solutions and better address clients' needs. The company's proprietary software has been progressively fine-tuned over the years; with every new version of SAP, a new component is added to the software to make it compatible. DATAVARD offers a complete portfolio for SAP HANA migration. Transition to S/4HANA and BW/4HANA starts with cleansing an enterprise system and archiving low-value data, through choosing a suitable, individual migration path that fits the clients and its employees' needs and smoothly transferring high-value data to a fast in-memory platform. "At the same time, we are backward compatible too. We can seamlessly function with technologies from the past including R2 and mainframe application systems," mentions White.The efficacy of DATAVARD's future-ready and broadly compatible solutions can be illustrated with the company's project for the Czech car manufacturer, Skoda Auto. DATAVARD's OutBoard DataTiering compressed Skoda's database system by 87 percent, improved the query performance by 20 percent, and also comprehensively prepared the automobile manufacture for HANA migration.By continuing its R&D efforts, DATAVARD plans to expand its customer base in the U.S., which is one of the most important markets for the company in terms of growth. "We believe that the adoption rate for the latest advanced technologies is significantly higher in the U.S. than in Europe. As a result, we look forward to partnering with organizations that are leading edge," says Stöckler. With DATAVARD as a friend and caretaker, organizations uncover pain points in their SAP systems before they become a problem, reduce costs and save time by keeping data growth under control, align data strategies with the ever-changing business landscape, and leverage new technologies to bring innovation.
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