Splunk-ify Your SAPPowerConnect© for SAP & Splunk

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Company Overview

Cloud Migrations

SAP Technology Transformation

Software Solutions & Automation

SAP Cloud Managed Services

Services & Products

SAP Industry Experience20+ years

Deep SAP Technology Expertise

Average 15 and up to 27 years Product Investments4+ years and counting as well release of new

feature pack every 6 months¹

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SAP Certification100% of people

GrowthDouble Digit YoY

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Differentiators

Network Of Partnerships

Headquarter & Delivery Location

Delivery Location

Regional Office

Singapore

K.L.

Jakarta

Manila

Sydney

Melbourne

Brisbane

New York

London

Representative Office

Locations

Product Overview

Extract high-fidelity, real-time and historic SAP telemetry data ready for analysis and visualisation in Splunk.

Only SAP-certified SAP to Splunk connector in the market from SAP NetWeaver version 7.0 to 7.5 as well as S/4 HANA and covers ABAP and Java-based workloads.

Deploys in hours using standard SAP deployment tools and extracts performance, log, user activity, security and business data.

Comes with a rich set of pre-build panels and dashboards providing you insights into you SAP solution from day one.

PowerConnect© Features

Highly customisable functionality – Easily adapted to collect any metric via function module.

Highly graphical interface supporting all visualisations available in Splunk.

Mobility enabled – Can be combined with Splunk mobile access to enable visibility on all touch and tablet devices.

PowerConnect© Features

PowerConnect© Architecture

SAP NetWeaver & S/4 HANA

HANA Oracle SQL maxDB

ECC BW SRM CRM

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PowerConnect© vs. Solution Manager

PowerConnect© Solution Manager

Data FidelityHigher

PowerConnect© can retain the highest level of detail and hostory of telemetry data.

LowerLoss of detail since SAP purges or

aggregates telemetry data.

CorreletionPossible

With SAP data available in Splunk new insights can be gathered by correlating SAP data with other sources.

Not possibleLimited to SAP data only.

Value Delivered

Out-Of-The-BoxComes with 100‘s of pre-built queries, dashboard and

usage scenarios for system information, security & compliance, business data (e.g. iDocs)

To be configuredRequires significant configuration effort to tailor to requirements.

Implementation TimelineDays

Ingest data into splunk in under two days and start getting insights using purpose build dashboards.

Months3-6 for medium complxity, 6+ for more

complext implementation.

Example Usage Scenarios

SAP Data Analysed

• User login attempts

• User location

• System log

Insights Provided

• Successful & failed user logins.

• Geographic view of system usage.

• Anomalies in system log, e.g. increased message frequency.

• UI details e.g. versions.

Security & Compliance

SAP Data Analysed

• Batch job execution

• IDoc & Change documents processing

• PI/PO message processing

• BI Process Chains

Insights Provided

• Status of critical business processes.

• Business process context via IDoc content, e.g. sales data or PO without PR.

Processes Monitoring

SAP Data Analysed

• SAP transaction STAD

• SAP server availability

Insights Provided

• Real-time and historic view of load and response by user, transaction code or any field in the dataset.

• Availability of SAP solution components.

Solution Performance

SAP Data Analysed

• HANA SQL Queries Collection (note 1969700)

• HANA health & consistency checks

Insights Provided

• HANA database status

• Real-time and historic performance data

SAP HANA

AGL Utilities Australia

CLP Utilities Hong Kong

DET Government Australia

Home Depot Supply Logistics USA

Customers

Monash Uni Education Australia

Pact Group Logistics Australia

T-Mobile Telco USA

Customers

Testimonial

“We are using BNW’s PowerConnect© for SAP & Splunk to extract iPhone 10 sales data from our SAP ECC system and correlated the sales information with device activation data from our mobile towers in real-time. The resulting insights helped us to gain a better understanding of our customer buying behaviours.

Having started only a few weeks earlier, we got the PowerConnect solution ready for the major sales campaign thanks to rapid deployment option and pre-delivered content of PowerConnect”.

US Telecommunications Provider

Purchasing Options

Purchasing Options

Perpetual Subscription SaaS

Volume Extraction Packs (VEP)¹ Flexible volumes from 1GB, 2GB, 3GB … and up to 100GB with access to increasing discounts

Splunk License BYOL BYOL Included

Maintenance 20% per annum Included n/a

Advantages • Leverage existing Splunk investments;• Integrate and correlate data from

multiple sources (SAP and non-SAP);

• OPEX-based, no upfront cost• Leverage existing Splunk investments• Integrate and correlate data from

multiple sources (SAP and non-SAP);• 1,2 & 3-year pre-commit discounts

available;

• Leverage SaaS based Splunk;• Flexible pay-as-you-go, terms available;• Access to cost efficient hyperscale cloud-

storage pricing;• 1,2 & 3-year pre-commit discounts

available;

Considerations • Requires CAPEX investment; • Maintain customer-owned Splunk instance;

• SAP data ingestion only.

¹ Volume per day per SAP System ID; Custom pricing available for VEP greater than 100GB

AWS Solution Space

PowerConnect© for SAP & Splunk is also available on AWS Solution Space as a complete SaaS-based solution.

Use our 60-day free trial offer or request AWS credits for your PowerConnect© for SAP & Splunk project and get insights into your SAP telemetry data in record time.

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SAP

SAP PowerConnect

Free 60-Day Trial

A jointly executed pilot project for PowerConnect© puts you in the driver seat for SAP data insights from day one.

Obligation-free at zero cost to the customer.

Weekly status and progress checkpoints working towards a defined endpoint.

Leverage BYOL or SaaS option for Splunk.

Timeframe for evaluation typically 4-8 weeks with pre-defined objectives and proof-points.

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