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BUSINESS BENEFITS OF
CISCO TIDAL INTELLIGENT
AUTOMATION FOR SAP
CISCO TIDAL INTELLIGENT
AUTOMATION FOR SAP
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municate, and collaborate. Businesses of
all sizes, governments, service providers,
and consumers leverage the value of the
network using Cisco hardware, software,
and services to improve collaboration, sim-
plify operations, increase customer satisfac-
tion, and improve competitive advantage.
Enbridge Gas Distribution was looking
to speed its system refresh process and
selected the Cisco Tidal Intelligent Auto-
mation for SAP application. A manual
system refresh process can be costly to
an enterprise and unnerving for admin-
istration staffs. This automation solution
helps simplify this process by making it
more consistent and less error-prone, and
to speed its system refresh process and
selected the Cisco Tidal Intelligent Auto-
mation for SAP application. A manual
system refresh process can be costly to
an enterprise and unnerving for admin-
istration staffs. This automation solution
helps simplify this process by making it
more consistent and less error-prone, and
users, such as:
Automates system refresh procedures
for SAP systems, using tools and
procedures based on best practice
Minimizes risk by reducing manual
errors through consistent execution of
system refresh procedures
Reduces cost by decreasing the time
and effort required to conduct system
refresh procedures
for SAP systems, using tools and
procedures based on best practice
Minimizes risk by reducing manual
errors through consistent execution of
system refresh procedures
Reduces cost by decreasing the time
and effort required to conduct system
refresh procedures
With a reliable automation solution, IT can
gain greater control over system refresh
procedures and conduct full refreshes more
gain greater control over system refresh
procedures and conduct full refreshes more
vital production data will not be adversely
affected. An automated and accelerated
process enables organizations’ develop-
ment, training, sandbox, and quality as-
surance systems to have high-quality data
quickly and accurately to ensure business
continuity.
affected. An automated and accelerated
process enables organizations’ develop-
ment, training, sandbox, and quality as-
surance systems to have high-quality data
quickly and accurately to ensure business
continuity.
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do and saw how versatile it was, we realized we could
build other workflows for other repetitive activities,”
Wilson says. “It was a great surprise — a bit like when
you buy a Swiss Army knife because you need a knife,
but then you find out it has a fork and a screwdriver too.”
For example, Enbridge recently upgraded all 23 data-
bases in its SAP landscape, and used the Cisco software
to validate the data after each upgrade. “There’s a check-
list you have to fill in, and we had to perform this test ev-
ery single time,” Wilson says. “Using the automation soft-
ware, we built a health check workflow that includes an
HTML report stating who performed the health check,
when, and how. So we can always go back in this report
later on for auditing purposes to see a record of what
was completed.”
Enbridge plans to expand use of the software in the
future. For instance, Enbridge intends to extend it to a
business partner that provides application management
of Enbridge’s SAP systems. “While this group has not
yet taken advantage of the software, the last step in this
whole chain of health checks and data validation is to
decrease their manual effort by automating their health
check scenarios and scripts as well.” This expansion would
further reduce the overall refresh time down to three or
four days — quite a difference from the three or four
weeks prior to undertaking the reduction effort.
build other workflows for other repetitive activities,”
Wilson says. “It was a great surprise — a bit like when
you buy a Swiss Army knife because you need a knife,
but then you find out it has a fork and a screwdriver too.”
For example, Enbridge recently upgraded all 23 data-
bases in its SAP landscape, and used the Cisco software
to validate the data after each upgrade. “There’s a check-
list you have to fill in, and we had to perform this test ev-
ery single time,” Wilson says. “Using the automation soft-
ware, we built a health check workflow that includes an
HTML report stating who performed the health check,
when, and how. So we can always go back in this report
later on for auditing purposes to see a record of what
was completed.”
Enbridge plans to expand use of the software in the
future. For instance, Enbridge intends to extend it to a
business partner that provides application management
of Enbridge’s SAP systems. “While this group has not
yet taken advantage of the software, the last step in this
whole chain of health checks and data validation is to
decrease their manual effort by automating their health
check scenarios and scripts as well.” This expansion would
further reduce the overall refresh time down to three or
four days — quite a difference from the three or four
weeks prior to undertaking the reduction effort.