Quadrate White Papers

Streamline SAP Data Transfers by Eliminating Programming

Much of the data being uploaded into SAP Solutions exists in spreadsheets. Moving data out of these spreadsheets requires either manual data entry or IT programming resources. By eliminating these requirements, IT departments can better focus programming resources toward greater innovation on internal projects and business challenges.

In today's business environment, IT managers often find themselves on a never-ending search to improve return on IT investment. This search is hampered by the maintenance and management of vast amounts of data. IT departments often find that while they have the ability to manage this data, they simply don't have the capacity. These restrictions on capacity are caused by attempts to manage the data imports through manual data entry or through writing programs. More...

Extracting a defined set of data from SAP is something ordinarily left to IT departments. Traditional solutions include either writing a custom program or a creating a report in ABAP. Business users and data owners often need to make decisions and require quick analysis of their data.

By empowering users to extract their own data and create their own reports, business decisions can be made quickly and based on correct data, improving overall business performance. More...

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Quadrate Data Workbench is an easy to use set of tools designed so that business users can input and extract data to and from SAP ERP systems.

Businesses that have a SAP implementation know that data entry to update price-lists for example, usually requires the involvement of the IT department, and because of the complexities of SAP's data structures, it usually takes a number of days to develop. The same is true for data extraction and reporting from SAP's Business Warehouse.

Butler Group likes the usability of the Quadrate Data Workbench tools and the tight linkage with existing SAP security, so a user cannot upload data that their user profile does not give them access to. More...