In today's complex SAP landscape, functional teams and developers are more in need of good, recent production data and configuration in order to effectively test their changes. DSM Client Sync™, in conjunction with DSM Object Sync™, provides the technology you need to serve your SAP production support teams better by performing intelligent, customizable SAP client copies.
| Feature | Description |
| Time Slice | Selectively copy data from production (or a production copy) based on time, eg. provide the last 6 months of production data for the development team, or, copy the last 16 fiscal periods for the finance team. Selection is based on time, calculated from today backward for the period specified. |
| Restrict by class of data | Copy configuration only, master data only, master and transaction data, user masters only, or any combination of these. |
| Data Exclusion/Inclusion with profiles | Preconfigured profiles help you control your data selection functionally. You can choose to exclude all HR data for example, or copy all HR data but exclude CATS. Multiple, selectable configuration options are available. |
| Data exclusion at the table level | By custom configuration you can choose to exclude individual tables, for example by specifying STXL and STXH, two of the biggest tables in SAP can be excluded from the SAP client copy, making your target client significantly smaller. |
| Z tables automatically included | The client copy tool discovers all your Z, Y and other custom tables, and by default will include them in the copy. You have minute control over which of these to exclude or time slice. |
| Configurable time slicing on custom tables | If you want to time slice some of your Z tables, an easy custom extension can be configured to automate the selection of data. Z tables are picked up and copied in their entirety by default, unless configured to be sliced or specifically excluded. |
| Multiple sync methods | You can choose to extract data to disk, then use the same source to populate multiple target clients (for your SAP training system for instance), or you can choose to sync real time between your source SAP client and your target SAP client. |
| Controlled workload distribution | You can allocate your extract processes to your logon load balancing groups, or to specific application servers. Additionally, you can dynamically increase the number of processes you want to use. |
| Scheduling | Schedule your client refresh with normal job scheduling tools, which includes date and event driven triggers. Not here on the weekend? Schedule it. |
| Replace standard SAP client copies | You can do local syncs in the same system as well. Because you have more finite control over data selection and batch processes allocated, Client Sync™ is frequently used for SAP client copies in the same system as well. This is known as a local sync. |
| Estimation run | If you want to know how big your target client will be, you can do an estimation run. This takes a percentage sampling of your source system (configurable), performs the selection logic against it, and estimates the space needed by tablespace in the target system. |
| Easy installation | The entire product is written in ABAP, and is installed via a transport. Installation takes about 45 minutes and can be done by any basis person. Some configuration tasks will be necessary after installation. |
| Easy execution and monitoring | An SAP GUI dashboard gives you real time information about the status of the sync. Monitor at the individual table level, or at the batch process level. A detailed log provides information for future reference or troubleshooting. |
| Security | The tool integrates with your standard SAP security roles. In addition, it provides custom roles for different levels of access to the tool. |
| Hardware required | Does not require any additional hardware, unlike some of the competitors in this space. It runs on your current SAP systems. |
| SAP releases supported | Runs on the following versions of R/3: 4.6C, 4.7x110, 4.7x200, ECC 5 (ERP2004) and ECC 6 (ERP2005) |
| SAP Business Suite support | Supports R/3, SRM and CRM. |
| Industry Solution support | Supports all industry solutions, with optimized support for Media, Public Sector, Retail, and now also Utilities (CCS), Oil and Gas and Mining. |
| Product Support | Global online support in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Hebrew and Afrikaans. 24x7 access to a support portal for patch downloads or logging problem tickets. |
