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DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS SUPPORT AND TRAINING CONSUMER REQUEST TRIAL

 

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Siamease contains a fair amount of functionality that has been developed to assist projects in a practical way. It is designed to be non-technical, to empower business users who have no technical in SAP. At its heart it is designed for data migration buts its functionality extends its usefulness into post implementation support. This document highlights its features, differentiating factors to other products on the market and includes costs and support options.

If you are considering any SAP implementation start by loading a trial of Siamease onto your development system. 

This document is aimed at the project manager and key decision makers. If there is any additional information you require please feel free to contact us or browse the www.sy-datum.com web site since it contains numerous documents and brochures on the matter.

A link has been added to the end of this document to formally request a trial license of Siamease. On receipt we will contact you and make the necessary arrangements. Please feel free to contact us, even if you are slightly interested. We are more than willing to answer any questions or provide a demonstration.

Effective today, Essential tomorrow.

 


 

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Some of the Siamease differentiating factors to other products on the market include;


 

User Driven

 

Non-technical, requires little training, has wizards and solution builders to assist new users.
Siamease also follows a natural implementation process. This allows consulting houses to integrate Siamease into their plans with ease and without distracting project plans. The key benefit here is that Siamease allows the business analysts on the project team to perform data migration within their own timelines and without putting a burden on technical resources. A non-technical approach allows a wider spread of users from the business to be utilised within the data migration project and takes a burden off the consultants.
The signoff process is easier and the users involved with Siamease provide a constant benefit to the business long after the go-live.
Effective during SAP implementation, Essential in Post implementation support

 

Designed to assist SAP projects from baseline configuration to post-implementation support, it has a long term benefit to any SAP implementation with immediate effect to the implementation team. It is not designed to dissolve after the implementation. Any users learning Siamease will continue to add benefit to the company long after the go-live.
Process Oriented & Process Management Formulates business process by linking transactions and data together. This allows complex transactions to be simplified into simple steps or complex processes to be built comprehensibly using condition based logic.

Scripting functionality manages data within the process using user defined rules. These rules allow repetitive activities to be repeated throughout time without putting any demand on the IT team. Integration Test scripts can be built, including rules for generating new data. Useful when one application team requires data from other teams.

Automates SAP transactions This is a strong point of Siamease, since it not only handles transactions that others cannot, but handles custom defined transactions or transactions that have customer eccentric adjustments.

To elaborate on this, Siamease handles transactions that have multiple line item, such as Bills of Material, Hr Master Data, Stock Takeon, Financial takeon, sales order, release strategies and a host of others.

Although Siamease uses transaction recording at its heart it generates solutions that are more intelligent than the recording. A recording such as an LSMW or CATT recording can only replicate the transaction according to how it was originally recorded. Thus if a financial journal is recorded with 2 line items it can only post 2 line items. Siamease is capable of understanding the recording and recognising that the user may have any number of line items to post.  It also does this without requiring coding.

Operates within SAP Operates within SAP and is easily accessible. It is executed via a series of transaction codes, including Siamease Managers that allow tasks and activities to be managed from a central point. It adheres to strict SAP development rules and has an integrated transport manager that allows solutions to be migrated through the basis landscape.
Data Management

has integrated validation, formatting, conversion, audit, data source management and allows volume data maintenance after go-live.

A feature setting Siamease aside is that in addition to its focus on transactions and processes it also has a key focus on the data and the data management.

It does this in 7 ways.

  1. Has an integrated and automatic validation layer. This ensures that data is correctly formatted and validated at face value. Fields that require dates for instance are checked against a calendar. Codes that should have leading zeroes can be auto-corrected in the validation process, eliminating the fustration of trying to fix obvious errors.
  2. Has an automatic conversion layer. Siamease handles data that is uploaded into SAP and data that is created. Through its dynamic results database it can constantly build mapping tables withing the results database mapping legacy codes to SAP codes. New data being uploaded from a legacy system, need only refer to the original legacy data. Siamease will map the legacy codes to SAP codes using the SAP application server and present the results to the user for final verification. This eliminates the need for extract programs to be written to extract codes out of SAP for mapping before the process can continue. It also allows the migration process to be rule based avoiding extensive user intervention.
  3. Results from data loads are stored within the results database and made available for audit through a central function. Signoff can be achieved across all applications from a central point and eliminates the need to develop audit reports and the need to train the audit team on complex SAP functionality.
  4. Data loaded into SAP can be used as a data source for subsequent processes. Sales Orders, for example, can be delivered and invoiced through a Siamease business process. The Sales order numbers are stored by Siamease and made available to the delivery and invoice process. This is especially useful when defining integration test scripts or when creating volume data for training courses.
  5. SAP standard data can be extracted by Siamease and used as a data source for data maintenance. Siamease can maintain volume master and transaction data using data in SAP and can apply changed based on conditions. For example, Siamease can determine a set of materials within a material group and change the material to another material group. Materials that have no open orders  and use can be found and flagged for deletion, allowing the archive process to cleanup obsolete data.
  6. Data loaded from spreadsheets can be checked into a Siamease Data warehouse. The warehouse holds the data ready for processing and can be migrated to a QA and Production system for remigration. Once spreadsheets have been completed and verified the Data administrator can 'save' the data in SAP ready for the data migration project. This allows the SAP database management system to secure high volume data instead of keeping the data in volatile spreadsheets.
  7. Data can be pulled from other SAP systems or clients using Siamease DXV Remote (r). This allows live production data to be extracted and used as a data source for preparing a Quality, development or training client. Siamease provides the infrastructure to separate the process from the data. This allows data to be pulled from other systems, modified and captured into a new SAP client.
Simple Data format Data format is very simple and user defined if need be, Siamease will provide sample spreadsheets to the user to suggest a format. Data can be loaded from spreadsheets by simply copying data into the windows clipboard and processing in bulk. Other data sources can be used including SAP itself, thus allowing a task to refer to existing data in SAP.
Embedded Solutions Siamease can generate solutions that are integrated into Interfaces, Internet Solutions, user exits and enhancements or simply to simplify complex transactions for certain areas of the business.

Siamease generates complete stand alone code that developers can use or change if need be. Code is documented and generated to follow specific standards, including comments. A common problem in SAP is that the developers usually have to replace an entire process when adding a small change. Siamease is very sensistive to this. It has an integrated function builder that allows developers to code small functions or formulae. These functions can be used at will by the application team for conversion, validation, condition logic, audit conversion, data correction, data maintenance and a host of other facits of Siamease.

SAP Modules Siamease works on almost all SAP modules. It handles custom defined transactions as well as modified SAP transactions. It is especially useful for SD processes. HR master data is made really easy since mapping is dynamic. It is very good with CFM and SEM because it handles relationships between data really well. Its handle on volume postings into line item transactions makes material movements, bills of materia, routine and production planning especially easy. Financial takeon, stock takeon and CO planning is as easy as MM. Any transaction where the customer has functionality within SAP to change the process. Financial journals, for instance, are quite standard until you implement PA and define your own operating concern. Coding blocks or PA segment characteristics can cripple other functionality available. Siamease continues to work because it learns from the customer eccentric transaction rather than forcing the customer into a prepackaged solution.

 


PRACTICAL APPLICATION

The following list highlights the practical application of Siamease
into the project and the business.

 

Data Migration
  1. Simple and complex data migration.
  2. Process Oriented Migration allowing complex steps to be broken down to manageable units and rebuilt to comprehensive process.
Integration Testing
  1. Process Oriented Integration Testing.
  2. Siamease handles data exchange from one step to another.
  3. Conditional logic can be added for more intelligent testing
  4. User / Manual steps can be integrated into test
  5. Steps can be documented
  6. Scripts can be iterative.
  7. Script Managers and builders available
  8. Scripting is simple and enhances standard functionality providing familiarity
  9. Tests can be executed from a central script executor or as background job.
Data Maintenance
  1. Intelligent Search and Replace on SAP master and transaction data
  2. Condition Based logic allowing intelligent maintenance
  3. Siamease can access SAP data without developing extract programs first
  4. Maintenance programs can be executed routingly as a SAP job
Interfacing
  1. Postings from external systems can be automated via Siamease tasks
  2. Siamease tasks can be embedded into other ABAP programs or interface control programs
  3. Business Analyst defines and tests the interface. The Technical team develop the conduit from the external system to SAP. The interface posting is owned by the application team and can adjust according to configuration or changes in the business process.
  4. Developers can alter the Siamease task code at will.
Training Clients
  1. Siamease can generate data based on data rules
  2. Generated data is captured into business process.
  3. Process steps can be iterative allowing predefined data to be generated for a class.
  4. Data can be imported from other clients if need be.
  5. Once defined, scripts need only be executed before training to ready a client for training.
  6. Each step can be activated or deactivated allowing a training client to be built to a specific point and then extended at a later stage.
Simplifcation
  1. Complex transactions can be simplified to a single capture screen.
  2. Useful for Internet Service Transactions, bar coding and factory floor data capture
Internet Development
  1. All Siamease Tasks can be executed via ITS web reporting, without recoding nor ABAP development skills.
Stress Testing
  1. Predefined business processes can be automated and executed via a simple script.
  2. Basis can execute a realistic business scenario applying volume stress to the application and database servers. This test is transaction based and hence provides a more realistic results to database read programs.
  3. Tests can be reexecuted at will, eliminating the need for any application team members to be present. Stress tests can be done from several geographic locations applying the same unit of work at each. Accurate comparisons allows network access, application servers and database servers to be measured. Typically a system is tested, parameters tweaked and assumed correct. It is fairly difficult to have an application team capture data for basis reasons.

 


SUPPORT AND TRAINING

Due to a wide spreadspread clientele, our key support is on the internet.

SUPPORT

Siamease is supported internationally via our central support web site www.sy-datum.com . Competence centres are located to suite time zones rather than geography. Please visit this web site since it has demonstrations that can be downloaded and viewed offline demonstrating the functionality with examples. The support web site is integrated into Siamease and available within SAP. The site contains a user forum where questions can be posted to our panel as well as suggestions or possible problems.

TRAINING

Siamease coarses are available. A beginner, advanced and administrator course is available. Our staff are proffesional trainers accustomed to technical ABAP training as well as Java and other internet related activities.

It must be said however that it is our intention to provide training on-tap from the internet. Samples and examples are available from the Siamease support web site. The support site is integrated into Siamease via a tab screen in SAP. Most customer only go on the advanced training since the product has wizards and builders to guide new users.  If a component of Siamease is difficult for users to use we typically rewite it until they are happy with it. Siamease is now in its 4th major release indicating that we have had many users providing invaluable input into the activities at hand.

 

 

CONSUMER AND MARKET


Siamease is sold in America, Africa, Australia with an increasing curiosity from India and Europe. Now in its 4th major release Siamease entered the market place in 1997. Siamease has been built around practical experience in especially demanding projects that have required a high level of accuracy and competency. Some of our clients are large international corporate companies whilst others are smaller companies in Africa that cannot employ a large staff compliment nor even find an ABAP developer in the country. Siamease operates comfortably in almost all markets including Financial Services, Electronics, Automotive, Chemicals, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Paper and Pulp, Textiles, Oil / Petrochemical and Steel.

 

 

 

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