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Customer & challenge
The Scheuch Group operates on a global scale, supplying ventilation and environmental technology as both a systems manufacturer and a supplier for equipment and components in the industrial minerals, energy, metals, wood-based panels, glass and wood processing sectors. Today, the Scheuch Group employs a staff of more than 1,400 at various locations around the world and is recognized as a leading technology company in many industries. Read more at: www.scheuch.com. While integrating SAP S/4HANA in one of its divisions, the Scheuch Group sought to investigate how to extract data from SAP into the Microsoft environment with maximum efficiency.
“Medium- to long-term, we plan to integrate SAP throughout the group,” says Christian Wellmann, Senior Controller at Scheuch Management Holding GmbH. “That means the volume of SAP data that we need to extract for further processing in our BI environment will increase. We needed to find a data extraction solution that enables the provision of large volumes of SAP data for creating reports using Microsoft Power BI and SQL Reports, and which also features the capability of handling the large, complex data volumes expected. At the same time, we modernized the server environment for reporting.”
With Xtract IS, we can extract even large volumes of data from SAP faster and more reliably than with the SAP HANA ODBC driver. Plus, SAP business logic comes with the interface, so there is no need for time-consuming programming efforts.
Solution with Xtract IS
Based on the recommendation from a third-party business analytics partner, Scheuch decided to take a closer look at Xtract IS. “We found the interface convincing with its ease of use, technical sophistication and high reliability. For added value, it can also be seamlessly integrated in the MS Visual Studio development platform that we use,” says Wellmann. Wellmann initially used the free trial version to check the suitability of the interface. “While reviewing the trial version, we soon found that we can extract data extremely quickly and with little effort using Xtract IS,” he says.
