PBS Software GmbH Add-on Solutions for the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in SAP Systems PBS Software GmbH 2012, Dr. Klaus Zimmer
PBS Software GmbH Founded in 1991, privately owned Worldwide more than 1400 customers More than 4000 installed PBS archive add ons for SAP ERP PBS Software GmbH is a leading provider for SAP add-on software in the areas of data archiving, data extraction and storage as well as system retirement. PBS has been known to be an expert on complex and integrated data access for more than 20 years. 2 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS Software GmbH 21 Years Experience with Add-on Solutions for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) with SAP Systems Cooperation with SAP since 1998 (data archiving, ILM) SAP Software Solutions Partner since 1999 Cooperation for marketing and consulting services with various partner companies world-wide All major PBS solutions certified by SAP AG (ICC) 3 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
Partner Network Technology partners: 4 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
Customer Distribution Americas 24 % Asia/Australia 8% Others < 1 % Europe 24 % Germany 43 % 5 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
Software Solution Portfolio ILM Solutions for SAP ERP PBS archive add ons NAI Nearline Analytic Infrastructure Database Analyzer PLUS NLS Solutions for SAP BW PBS * ilm Solutions CBW NLS IQ CBW NLS (ADK Storage) BW Database Analyzer SAP Industry Solutions CAB (IS Retail) CFICA, CISU (IS-U/CCS) Adaptions for IS Mill, IS Oil and others Audits and Decommissioning Data Export Interface (DEI/DBEI) PBS archive add on CDART Enterprise Content Store (ECS) Compliant Data Storage PBS ContentLink for EMC Centera, Celerra, Hitachi HCP, IBM DR550 MS Sharepoint, NetApp FAS, NAS 6 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
Customer Benefits and Potential Savings Goals for the Implementation of PBS Add-On Solutions: Smaller database size, less DB growth Better performance shorter response times Less effort for backup and desaster recovery Reduced hardware and administration costs Long-term archive data access (e.g. legal requirements) Benefits and Features: Flexible and complete online access (end user queries, transactions) Short response times for archive data retrieval Perfect SAP integration 7 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS archive add ons for SAP ERP Transparent and user-friendly software solution to enhance SAP data archiving features with comfortable and complete retrieval options Direct end user access to archived data with transactions and reports Integrated display transactions: Simultaneous retrieval from database and archive Effective navigation options to subsequent data (document flow) Advanced data extraction for audit needs Available and SAP certified for all SAP ERP (R/3) release levels Enhancement option for fast mass data processing (NAI Nearline Analytic Infrastructure) 8 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS archive add ons for SAP ERP Access to PBS archive add ons via roles in the user menu PBS-specific parameter to choose the data source 9 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS CBW NLS for SAP BW Flexible and fast query access to nearline/archive data for InfoCubes and DSO Effective storage due to large data compression Perfect integration into SAP NLS; MultiProvider integration for nearline access Integration of column-based technology in SAP BW (Sybase IQ) Improved query response time from nearline repository Administration and monitoring from the SAP frontend Very low admin & management efforts and costs Additional features: PSA archiving and data extraction (Audits) 10 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure PBS NAI is a first Nearline Storage Solution for SAP ERP using column-based storage technology: Sybase IQ Analytics Server Well suited for extremely large data amounts and short response time Effective indexing for SAP AS solves storage and retrieval bottlenecks Improved indexing option for PBS archive add ons (NAI Cxx) Extremely fast data access for analyses and queries Fast and simplified View creation for DART extracts Low resource requirements and very low administration efforts 11 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS ContentLink PCL is an interface solution to link state-of-the-art fixed content storage systems with SAP environments. Major PCL benefits: Lean solution Reliable Fast Scalable Economically low administration efforts, no database, no backup high availability enabled, replication options short access response time, flexible caching no saturation effects for large data processing low costs for implementation and maintenance 12 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
PBS Enterprise Content Store ECS is an SAP system independent software solution to analyse, filter, view and process data extracts from SAP environments on a PC/server based platform Processing of structured data from SAP DART, views (AIS format) and PBS DEI Processing of unstructured data, e.g. in/outbound documents and print lists Access to SAP certified storage systems via SAP ArchiveLink interface Effective creation of DART views independent of an SAP system Filtering and processing of SAP data extracts for audit needs Support of SAP system decommissioning via SAP independent data access 13 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
Analysis Tools for ERP and BW PBS Database Analyzer PLUS: Utility to evaluate and monitor important database parameters and support data archiving projects: Capacity Analysis: Analyze the table size/occupation grouped by archiving objects and tables. Various reporting options. Document distribution analysis: Analyze the data distribution for FI, SD, MM, CO by e.g. fiscal year, company code, document type, document numbers. PBS BW Database Analyzer: Utility to identify the largest InfoProviders and their data distribution in the SAP BW database. Capacity Analysis: Identify the largest InfoProviders (Cubes, DSO, PSA). Document distribution analysis: provide data distribution by time characteristics and other criteria for the largest InfoProviders 14 PBS add-on solutions for SAP - Overview
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