Empowering Stakeholders with Decision Support Automation for SAP

Tidal™ Transaction Analyzer

Tidal Transaction Analyzer delivers a new level of visibility into the activity and operation of SAP by simplifying user transaction reporting through the use of unique scenario-based reports. It enables 100 percent capture of SAP transaction activity; providing a new way for companies to perform many important functions rapidly. Transaction Analyzer provides secure web-based access to current and historical transaction information, allowing users to easily view and create detailed, custom reports. These unique capabilities empower the business with a range of operational metrics for compliance audit, business operations analysis, application performance analysis, capacity planning, and help desk functions, while reducing the impact to IT staff.

Transaction Analyzer captures every SAP dialog and transaction, recording its name, who executed it, the response time, and the resources it consumes. It efficiently records this information in a data warehouse with no performance or footprint impact on SAP. The data it records enables a range of business and operational reporting scenarios that can be delivered through subscriptions to the appropriate stakeholders.

Key Benefits

• Provides complete visibility into SAP infrastructure across the ABAP and J2EE NetWeaver stacks, empowering confident business decision making
• Maximizes investment in SAP solutions through faster, more efficient and accurate performance analysis
• 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
• Enables a new level of secure access to key operational data
• Deploys quickly and easily for instant results
• Supports anytime, anywhere access via e-mail alerts and notifications and web-based portal
• Maintains security with robust, role-based permissioning

Key Features

• Easy-to-use graphical user interface
• Detail reporting through scenario-based 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 on the ABAP and J2EE stacks
• Detailed data drilldown includes the SQL execution plan for the transaction
• 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