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Customer & challenge
With over 20 locations and a revenue of €3.5 billion, Nestlé Germany AG is the largest food company in Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Nestlé AG has 333,000 employees across 150 countries worldwide. Their products include everything from water and baby food to confectionery and culinary products.
Staying technologically relevant
To maintain their competitive edge in the digital age, Nestlé AG relies on digital technologies such as big data analytics. They use this tech to analyze decision-relevant information from different SAP BW (central data warehouse) and local, non-SAP systems. They utilized SAP Business Objects (BO) with the add-in SAP Analysis for Office (AfO) as an intelligence tool.
As part of a landscape shift, Nestlé AG decided to discontinue their use of SAP BO. By the time they reached out to us, they decided on the Microsoft platform as a centralized environment. This required a way for the automated extraction of data from SAP BW into MS Azure.
Xtract Universal allows us to automatically and quickly extract large amounts of data from SAP and store it flexibly in various Microsoft target environments.
Solution with Xtract Universal
Nestlé has chosen a combination of Xtract Universal for data extraction and KNIME for data processing. Because Xtract Universal enabled SAP integration into Azure, KNIME was able to access the data from there. Raymond Hacker, Corporate Controlling, Nestlé Deutschland AG, noted: “Xtract Universal has proven itself because it can extract data from SAP with high efficiency, and it can work flexibly with both SAP sources and any given target environment.”
The team led by Raymond Hacker started with a free trial version of Xtract Universal. “As a pilot project, we extracted several gigabytes of financial data using SAP BW queries. The results were very promising, and we were also impressed with the competent and personal support of Theobald Software. So, we decided to put the interface into productive operation.”
