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SAP Agile Data Preparation

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20 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Agile Data Preparation?

Organizations need to make data-driven decisions. But how do they obtain sound data and scale and operationalize those data-driven decisions? Self-service data preparation solutions from SAP can help. The SAP® Agile Data Preparation application provides self-service access to trusted data, offers in-memory performance, and is built for everyone including business analysts, IT experts, and data stewards.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Self-service reporting on data quality score for your data.
Self-service reporting on data quality score for your data.
Familiar grid view to easily see and transformed data in real-time.  Action panel on the right to view History, Collaborate amongst peers, single click suggestions to actions and more.
View functional dependencies and understand the operationalized data sets.
Choose between one-click data options available in SAP Agile Data Preparation on the right column.

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A splendid tool for Agile data preparation

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since last 4 years I have been using SAP tool for various purposes for project management. As being from pure play engineering services industry, we have to deal with vendors, suppliers and other stakeholders. So to keep data management in proper manner it helped us a lot for that. Either it's agile or scrum method it's our day to day activity to deal with SAP agile data preparation. Also it makes our task more easier for keeping vendors record in data management tool. Another aspect is also that, it has been accepted by more than 15000+ employees in my organization and it doesn't require much training on that so operation smoothing is quite amazing

Pros

  • User friendly
  • Data privacy and management
  • Easy to access
  • Better user experience
  • Focused UI/UX experience

Cons

  • To manage user's email notifications
  • Search data across worksheet
  • Data quality statistics

Most Important Features

  • Data access control
  • Feature management
  • Custom relationship

Return on Investment

  • Data management for large community has been increased
  • Easy to collaborate with relevant stakeholders
  • Smart and user-friendly interface
  • Data sharing feature with excel, spreadsheet etc

Other Software Used

Appsian360 for SAP and PeopleSoft, DocsApp, Agile CRM

SAP Agile Data Is Impressive

Pros

  • Centralized data storage, monitoring, and constant refreshes, as well as synchronization of global data are helping supply chain members reduce risk and secure stronger contracts.
  • SAP empowers its users for successful data management by providing very easy-to-use tools which allow one to access, manipulate, and update a ton of data.
  • SAP allows you to create data with having technical programming skills

Cons

  • It would be helpful if SAP had cleaner Excel and Access export capabilities
  • It would be helpful to have more training modules available online
  • The customer service ticket system is time-consuming

Return on Investment

  • SAP has had a positive impact in the way of showing valuable consumer market trends with regards to the snacks we sell.
  • SAP has had a positive impact in allowing the entire organization to work off the same set of data.
  • SAP has reduced report generation time by 60%.

Other Software Used

Kronos Workforce Central, SAP NetWeaver Application Server, Cisco SD-WAN, powered by Viptela

Transform and refine the Data Using SAP Agile Data Preparation

Pros

  • This software is a highly scalable solution to work on loads of data which can be worked upon easily.
  • The software offers a beautiful self-service user interface and experience. Additionally it also provides extensive and powerful data quality and exploration tools.
  • The Action suggestion feature in the tool is an easy way to understand potential data quality issues like duplication of entries or location validation.

Cons

  • Documentation for this product could be improved - Poor User Community
  • System lags and data extraction from SAP to Excel, takes a lot of time
  • It takes a lot of time if any issue/ticket is raised. Turnaround time is a little longer for this software.

Most Important Features

  • With an instant click of a button, SAP Agile Data Preparation can automatically discover and highlight relationships between data and can easily find data quality issues and report these issues to the user for action.
  • Provides extensive and powerful data quality and exploration tools.
  • Beautiful self-service user interface and experience
  • Highly scalable solution to transform large workloads of data. Works efficiently on loads of data as well.

Return on Investment

  • SAP Agile Data Preparation has made it easier for people in the organization by increasing data quality/standards which has resulted in attracting new client base in the organization
  • Mistakes in the data are identified easily on a single click due to a feature called "The Action Suggestions" and other extensive features which has reduced the risk in data analysis
  • Results in time-saving as it has reduced report generation time
  • This software is very feasible basis price for a big organization

Alternatives Considered

Alteryx, SAP NetWeaver Application Server, Cisco SD-WAN and Incorta

Other Software Used

Tally, SAP Access Control, SAP NetWeaver Application Server, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Qlik Analytics Platform