Business and Operational Insight for SAP

Tidal™ Transaction Analyzer

Tidal Transaction Analyzer delivers a new level of visibility into the activity and operation of SAP. It enables 100 percent capture of SAP transaction activity, providing a new way of accelerate many important business functions. Transaction Analyzer allows users to easily track and identify transactions using a straightforward interface, ensuring that they have only authorized access through traceable, transparent, secure admission to the system . These unique self-service capabilities empower the business with a range of operational metrics for compliance audit, business operations analysis, application performance analysis, capacity planning, and other uses, while reducing the load on IT staff.

Transaction Analyzer captures every SAP dialog and transaction, recording its name, who executed it, the response time, and the resources it consumes. Using a unique data pump technology, it efficiently records this complete information in a data warehouse with no performance or footprint impact on SAP. The data it records enables a range of business and operations analysis that depend on the ability to quickly know who utilizes the system, what they are doing, when they are doing it and how often they do it, and analyze and correlate the information in a variety of ways.

Key Benefits

• Captures 100% of all SAP activity for analysis now to any time in the future
• Enables a new level of secure self-service access to key operational data
• Empowers business to make compliance a corporate-wide responsibility
• Simplifies many complex analysis from business operations audits to application performance management and system workload forecasting
• Simplifies complex cost allocation and budget management activities such as departmental chargeback
• Creates 100 percent transparency for all transactions
• Deploys quickly and easily for instant results

Key Features

• Easy-to-use graphical user interface
• Self-serve reporting through built-in reports
• Easy-to-access "slice-and-dice" analysis by user, group, transaction, dialog, time, performance level, and more
• Captures 100 percent of all SAP dialogues and transactions
• Detailed data includes the user, what the user ran and when the user ran it
• No agents, no custom ABAP code, independent data storage - meaning no footprint in SAP
• Graphs and tables of averages and aggregates support automatic drill-down into detail data
• Supports distributed environments
• Provides role-based security
• Remote access via Web interface