Data warehouse systems are evolving rapidly, with cloud service providers playing an increasingly prominent role. Data lakes are flexible, scalable and less expensive than traditional data warehouses. In this blog post we discuss the benefits of using the CxLink Data Lakes solution to integrate your company’s SAP data into an AWS Data Lake.
The challenge of transferring SAP data to the AWS cloud in a readable format
A fairly common scenario among SAP users is transferring their SAP data to the public cloud and, once there, integrating it into a Data Lake. Let’s take the example of an international oil company with a volume of 2.5 billion records daily and 56 SAP sources. This company has chosen to use a Data Lake on the AWS cloud to centralise its data management, in order to make the information accessible to the entire organisation. To achieve this, it has chosen CxLink Data Lakes, a cloud-native solution from Syntax that allows the integration of SAP data using SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SAP SLT) on the AWS cloud platform efficiently and easily.
The main challenge for our oil company was to migrate its SAP data to the public cloud and ensure it was readable outside of SAP, thereby unlocking all the benefits of AWS Data Lakes. CxLink Data Lakes has enabled them to successfully overcome this challenge and their data is now hosted in an AWS Data Lake in a readable format.
The importance of ensuring SAP compliance and protecting your data
While it is essential to have a software tool that ensures our SAP data will be readable once transferred to the public cloud, it is equally important that this tool guarantees confidentiality and security, as well as compliance with the formal and legal requirements demanded by SAP for integrating information into an AWS Data Lake.
In terms of security and confidentiality, the transfer of data between SAP and AWS via CxLink Data Lakes is encrypted, supporting both client-based encryption and server-based encryption (SSF and AWS KMS).
In terms of compliance, when transferring SAP data to the AWS cloud, CxLink Data Lakes uses SAP SLT, which has been included in SAP S/4HANA since release 1909. This server is the only authorised method by the German company for moving data from own sources to a public cloud. The Syntax solution allows SAP data—from both on-premises systems and SAP cloud installations—to be merged into Data Lakes stored on Amazon S3 instances, as well as into real-time Kinesis streams. In this way, CxLink Data Lakes helps companies maintain a consistent view of all data from heterogeneous SAP environments and analyse it in a high-performance system.
Our oil company was looking for an effective solution for transferring its SAP data to an AWS Data Lake while ensuring the protection of its information and compliance requirements. CxLink Data Lakes perfectly meets these needs.
Use of the right software unlocks the benefits of Data Lakes
Choosing a Data Lake in the cloud will provide you with a robust platform to apply advanced analytics and integrate valuable information to help you make more strategic decisions, allowing you to transform isolated data into valuable insight for your business, driving business growth and innovation in the digital age. In other words, the ability to store, transform, and analyse any type of data—known as data provisioning and data mining—paves the way for new business opportunities and opens doors to digital transformation. This is precisely what Data Lakes in the cloud offer.
However, as we have already discussed, you need the right software to unlock these benefits of Data Lakes. It is important to highlight that there are no tools that transfer large volumes of SAP information to AWS natively. Those that currently exist on the market do not work properly due to performance issues, scalability limitations, or data handling issues.
CxLink Data Lakes handles the data transfer simply, cost-effectively and with optimal performance without slowing down the delivery of data. Moreover, it’s a solution that enables data to be received in the format you define beforehand, by combining selected variables to obtain relevant information. In other words, this software facilitates a simple and effective transformation of data. Its agile and efficient performance and its data transformation capacity, together with the security that, as we have seen, the solution offers, are three of the aspects most valued by our oil company.
In addition, there are the inherent benefits of AWS Data Lakes that are accessible through the use of CxLink Data Lakes. Among them, the most notable advantages of AWS technology include: real-time SAP data analysis, real-time integration of external variables with internal business data, and improved process efficiency across teams.
Dive fully into Data Lakes with Syntax CxLink Data Lakes
If your company is ready to unlock the benefits of a Data Lake but needs the enabler, the connection bridge between SAP and AWS, CxLink Data Lakes provides the singular answer to the technical challenges you’ll face in this process. It facilitates data integration into Amazon S3 in a readable format, securely and effectively modelling data through the software’s functionalities and the simplicity of the solution’s architecture.
It is a software solution optimised specifically for AWS, maintained by Syntax, and regularly updated with the latest features and functions from both the cloud platform and SAP. This ensures it provides the most robust solution available for data integration.
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