PowerConnect - Splunk-ify Your SAP Solutions

Splunking SAP using SoftwareONE’s PowerConnect for Splunk IT Service Intelligence

Hear from Warwick Chai (Global Director SAP Sales and Innovation) at Splunk .conf20
Session is: ITO1353B – Splunking SAP using SoftwareONE PowerConnect and Splunk ITSI

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Our Customers

Product Overview

POWERCONNECT sends important information about what’s going on inside your SAP system, in near real time to Splunk allowing you to meet security compliance requirements, reduce P1 issues by 30% and reduce MTTR by 70% on your mission critical applications and systems.

PowerConnect© for SAP Features

Extract high-fidelity, real-time and historic SAP telemetry data ready for analysis and visualisation in Splunk.

SAP Features - SAP-certified SAP to Splunk connector

Only SAP-certified SAP to Splunk connector in the market from NW 7.01-7.5 as well as S/4 HANA.

With Pre-built Splunk Dashboards and certified consultants available to customize your alerts and monitoring the ROI is typically over 500%.

SAP Features - pre-build panels and dashboards

Comes with a rich set of pre-build panels and dashboards providing you insights into your SAP solution from day one.

SAP Features - customisable functionality

Highly customisable functionality – Easily adapted to collect any metric via function module.

Highly graphical interface supporting all visualisations available in Splunk.

Mobility enabled – Can be combined with Splunk mobile access to enable visibility on all touch and tablet devices.

SAP Features - Flexible Deployment Options

Flexible deployment options – leverage existing investments in your existing Splunk solution or take advantage of BNW’s SaaS offering.

Example Use Case

Security & Compliance

SAP Security Essentials

Out of the box audit reports.
Track user authentication activity with location.
System logs.

Insights Provided

Successful & failed user logins.
Geographic view of system usage.
Anomalies in system log, e.g. increased message frequency.
UI details e.g. versions.

Processes Monitoring

SAP Data Analysed

Batch job execution.
IDoc & Change documents processing.
PI/PO message – payload, logs.
BI Process Chains.
Number Range

Insights Provided

Status of critical business processes.
Business process context via IDoc content, e.g. sales data or PO without PR.

Solution Performance

SAP Data Analysed

SAP transaction STAD.
Work Process utilisation.
SAP server availability.
JVM load and memory.

Insights Provided

Real-time and historic view of load and response by user, transaction code or any field in the dataset.
Availability of SAP solution components.

SAP HANA

SAP Data Analysed

HANA SQL Queries Collection (note 1969700).
HANA health & consistency checks.

Insights Provided

HANA database status.
Real-time and historic performance data.

Testimonials

We are using BNW’s PowerConnect© to extract iPhone 10 sales data from our SAP ECC system and correlated the sales information with device activation data from our mobile towers in real-time. The resulting insights helped us to gain a better understanding of our customer buying behaviours.

Having started only a few weeks earlier, we got the PowerConnect solution ready for the major sales campaign thanks to rapid deployment option and pre-delivered content of PowerConnect

US Telecommunications Provider

Satisfying security & compliance requirements is critical to our organisation. PowerConnect helps us achieve this goal. For example, our Security & Compliance teams receive automated alerts from PowerConnect if the same user ID is used across geographically dispersed locations within a defined timeframe.

If the same user ID logs on to our SAP business systems in London and New York within say 2 hours, we need to investigate.

Utility Provider

PowerConnect for Splunk gives us greater insight into the internal operation of SAP both forensically and in real-time. We can see live performance metrics and also a high level of granularity in historic detail spanning months or years on demand.

Guy RosvallEnterprise Infrastructure and Operations Manager (PACT Group)

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A jointly executed pilot project for PowerConnect© for SAP & Splunk puts you in the driver seat for SAP data insights from day one.

Weekly status and progress checkpoints working towards a defined endpoint.

Obligation-free at zero cost to the customer.¹

Leverage BYOL or SaaS option for Splunk.

Timeframe for evaluation typically 4-8 weeks with pre-defined objectives and proof-points.

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¹ Applicable to selected customers only.