Hayes Technology Group, Gold Client for SAP R/3

Gold Client: Intelligent Data Transfer

Do the Application Teams need “live” transactional data for DEV, QA, and TRN?

Empower the process owners with the ability to quickly copy user-defined subsets of data “on-the-fly” to non-production targets within the SAP application landscape.

Relevant test data allows effective Unit Testing before transporting a change.
More effectively troubleshoot a Production problem outside of the Production environment.
Testing Teams can work with real Production Master Data for all test cases.
Build upgraded training clients fast.
Make use of real Production Data to build training material, improving the efficacy of training classes.
Responsibility of creating a test client is distributed
amongst teams.
Sensitive data can be “scrambled” or “masked” upon export so that data security can be preserved in potentially less secure systems.

The Intelligent Data Transfer component of Gold Client allows application teams to quickly select and copy subsets of relevant data from Production or Non-Production sources to Non-Production targets. Process owners now have the ability to control specific selections of Master and Transactional Data for replication to Development, QA, and Training clients.

Once a client refresh has occurred and contains a working baseline of Configuration and Master Data, the next step is populating that client with a selective amount of real Transactional Data. The addition of real Transactional Data enables the true testing process. Business analysts, functional configurators, and programmers are able to mine for and replicate specific transactional data, not limited to date range or any other criteria.

In a clean and clear export-import process, Gold Client utilizes the impressive Gold Client data type framework, ensuring full data integrity end-to-end. Process owners are able to create Scenarios defining exactly what transactional data they want from the source (such as Production). Data that meets the selection criteria and all relative sub data, is exported from the source, and then imported to the target—replicated exactly as it resides in the source. Data originality and doc flows are completely preserved with the Gold Client Solution. Posting dates and document numbers will be the same in the target as in the source. Data Scenarios are reusable, extendable and dynamic and the same export can be used for multiple clients or a quick reload.

All data exports are secure and support the ability to “scramble” sensitive data before it reaches the target system. The workload for handling SAP client refreshes can really be spread out. Finally, the process owners will be able to maintain control over what Transactional Data exists in their target clients.