Migration of data from SAP to Microsoft SharePoint 2014

See how we helped an Organization to make business decisions effectively using COGNOS BI reporting.

Cardone is a leading provider of new and re-manufactured automobile parts and products. With over 44 years of existence, Cardone has grown over 80 product lines and 46,000 SKUs of automotive hard parts.

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Migration of data from SAP to Microsoft SharePoint 2014

• Cardone has their sales, purchase, and finance inventory data stored in to the AS400 midrange system.
• The business team required analytics for reporting and decision purpose without altering their existing set-up.
• IT team decided to use a standalone Microsoft SQL Server to accomplish the MSBI (Microsoft Business Intelligence) without disturbing the existing EDW.
• The data required for analytics and report building has to be made available in SQL Server for building SSIS, SSAS and SSRS.
• A batch program has to be created that pulls the previous day updates from SAP to SQL Server.

HOW AVASOFT HELPED?

Built batch jobs (SSIS) to move data from existing database to Microsoft SQL Server with the help of MSBI Process.

• Created Multi-Dimensional Cubes (MDX) using SSAS and avoiding scripts for these in the future.
• Worked with Business teams to analyze existing report and build new reports. SSRS was used that aligned with business objectives, including reducing and optimizing the existing reports.
• Monitored jobs and worked with client teams that needed this details.
• Tested reports for design, layout and data which needs to be in line BO reports.
• Deployed all above mentioned as packages in the client environment and used SharePoint as the user front end for this.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

VALUE ADDITIONS TO CUSTOMER

• Cost saving by providing MDX code instead of SQL scripts.
• Provision to accommodate complex multidimensional Adhoc reports.
• Used existing infrastructure and licenses and provided complex solutions..
• Data transformations in future can be done effectively using the ETL framework.

BUSINESS GAIN

• Ability to drill down all reports at year, month and day levels with more visibility for department users.
• Build ETL frameworks that can be re-used in the future.
• Reduced coding needs in future on SQL scripts by creating MDX queries.

BUSINESS NEED

• Department wise reporting.
• Analytics for business users.
• Standardization of reports.

VERTICAL INDUSTRIES

• Re-manufacturing(automotive products)

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