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SAP Replication Server

Score9 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP Replication Server?

SAP's Sybase Replication Server is database development and management software.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features SAP Replication Server has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Connect to traditional data sources

    Ability to connect to traditional data sources like relational databases, flat files, XML files and packaged applications

    Category average: 8.7

  • Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

    Ability to connect to non-traditional data sources like Hadoop and other big data technologies, and NoSQL databases

    Category average: 7.7

  • Simple transformations

    Simple data transformations are calculations, data type conversions, aggregations and search and replace operations

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Business rules and workflow

    Ability to define and manage business rules and workflows

    Category average: 8.3

  • Collaboration

    Collaboration is enabled by a shared repository of project information and metadata

    Category average: 7.2

  • Integration with MDM tools

    Integration with master data management tools to ensure data consistency across the organization

    Category average: 7.8

Reviews

What users are saying about SAP Replication Server.
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Replication Server offers guaranteed delivery and data protection

Incentivized
Gene BakerView profile
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • guaranteed delivery
  • high availability
  • scalable
  • low latency
  • data transformation

Cons

  • make implementation easier
  • make programming easier
  • offer out of the box pre-defined use cases

Return on Investment

  • Positive in the fact that Rep Server has prevented corruption from being propogated
  • Positive - we continue to see value every day from the product
  • Positive - we replicate our audit trail to an audit server that no one can touch - has helped to prevent and detect fraud

Alternatives Considered

Oracle GoldenGate

Other Software Used

MongoDB, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Sybase Replication Server 11.9 review

Incentivized
Bruce SpeidelView profile
Senior Staff Engineer in Information Technology at Charter Communications (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Training was excellent on the product.
  • Great customer service when questions arose.
  • Functionality was awesome.
  • Bringing the main OLTP down for maintenance then allowed down time we could previously never afford to make SLA committments

Cons

  • A few bugs existed in the specific implementation we created requirements for, and we had to wait for Sybase to fix those bugs before it went live to production
  • Two way replication had issues where if the same table was being updated by both source and destination, a decision had to made on the "truth". We had to write some special software for specific business requirements.
  • Sometimes RepServer would go down, and we didn't know about it until the next time a healthcheck was performed. We had to write some monitoring software to notify us if things went down.

Return on Investment

  • The positive impact was better performance from our application using these new databases available to the business.
  • Negative impact was development time
  • Another negative impact was that Sybase engineering had to patch RepServer to fix a bug we discovered.

SAP replication server (Real Time data Transfer)

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Real time data transfer.
  • Enhanced data monitoring and Transformation Capability.
  • Low maintenance.
  • Tight integration with SAP

Cons

  • Data Reconciliation Functionality.

Return on Investment

  • A positive is that it allow quick business decision making on the basis of real time data. Huge time saving for business.

Other Software Used

SAP Business Warehouse, SAP ERP

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