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Innowera Live Support
Innowera Process Runner now introduces Live Support, a step further in helping our valued customers to resolve their issues quickly.
Why Innowera Live Support?
Live Support enables reservation less, ad-hoc, on demand, installation-less, direct screen and voice integration on one-to-one or one-to-many basis. This translates in immediate and effective support that goes to the bottom of the issues quickly.
When users need assistance fast, they can connect with skilled engineer who is ready to spring into action and get the things done beyond e-mails and phone calls could explain.
Live Support also shows Innowera’s commitment to integrate and invest in the best of the technology for the benefit of our valued customer.
If a picture is worth thousand words. In this Googlera, we can extend that proverb and say a Live Support is worth tens of e-mails.
2009 was a year to forget for the most of the businesses, not for Innowera. Innowera registered triple digit growth rate with close to 50 new customers, making it the fastest growing company in its segment. In its 2nd year of existence, Innowera’s Process Runner - Excel SAP integration software was very well received and established itself as a high quality product with platinum class support that is priced sensibly.
Innowera customers are overwhelmed by benefit that Process Runner is providing, some even went ahead and created a video (English) to express their joy.
For Innowera, 2009 was a milestone year as it listed some of the most powerful Global Fortune 50 companies as its customers; validating strategy of combining various technologies in one software and making Process Runner an ultimate automation application for SAP user base for insanely simplified data management. “The biggest challenge for Innowera is not the technology nor the competition but how not to overwhelm the users.” says founder Mickey Shah. “We believe that we have crafted a nice swiss knife for SAP in form of Process Runner; which allows its users to access the right tool at a right time without learning and installing many different softwares.”
Process Runner is the next generation productivity and complimentary tool to traditional SAP GUI, a must for every SAP users who manages data in and out of SAP. Process Runner does not need anything installed in SAP landscape. As a windows desktop application Process Runner simplifies data management using Excel as a data store and works out of the box. Most users finds rapid ROI ranging from less than a week to a quarter.
To learn more, download a white paper or to get a free evaluation copy, visit www.innowera.com or call toll free 1-877-SAP-4-ALL.
Innowera Process Runner, the efficient enterprise process application receives Windows 7 compatibility logo. A new version of Process Runner which works with Microsoft Windows® 7 to offer customers enhanced security, as well as innovative user interface features and reliability improvements. In an economic era where success is defined by how quickly and successfully your organization delivers results to ever-increasing expectations, cost pressures and how ― to do more with less Innowera’s Process Runner will enable you to rise and meet these challenges. Process Runner customers accelerate their time to financial benefit with a low start-up investment, they realize faster return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
“Our ISV community is alive with innovation, and we’re committed to helping our partners drive the next generation of software experiences,” said Ross Brown, Vice President of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. “Adding compatibility for the latest Microsoft operating systems helps ISVs to stay ahead of the competition and give their customers access to cutting-edge technologies.”
“Innowera is excited to launch this new version of Process Runner,” said Mickey Shah, CSA, Founder at Innowera. “Making our application compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 helps us offer our customers compelling benefits, including improved security and reliability features, full support for multi-core processing, sophisticated management features”
As a result, you can focus on your core business — and not to the management of technology. Innowera provides flexible SAP Data Management solutions to meet the needs of organizations of any size, based on the business needs of the end user.With proven technology, built-in best practices and expert support service, Innowera provides a best-in-class SAP data management system. Process Runner surpasses any other solution in the market and provides ROI in a few months.
Download your free evaluation of Process Runner today and find out how Innowera’s Process Runner makes SAP easier for users on all levels of business by simplifying complex problems and driving efficiencies via automation.
As part of the SAP identity management model, SAP provides set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used by identity and access management (IAM) to manage SAP users and role assignments within their systems. The APIs exist for both ABAP and Java systems. The ABAP APIs are provided as Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs). The Java APIs are provided with the user management engine (UME) interfaces.
Identity Management Implementation in Process Runner: Process Runner provides many ready to use SAP Identity Management BAPI samples.
- BAPI_USER_ACTGROUPS_ROLES_ASSIGN - Use this BAPI to assign roles.
- BAPI_USER_ACTGROUPS_ROLES_DELETE - Use this BAPI to delete all role assignments.
- BAPI_USER_CREATE1 - Use this BAPI to create users in the ABAP system.
- BAPI_USER_DELETE - Use this BAPI to delete users.
- BAPI_USER_GET_DETAIL - Use this BAPI to obtain information about a user, which includes the user’s role assignments.
- BAPI_USER_LOCK - Use this BAPI to lock users.
- BAPI_USER_PROFILES_ASSIGN - Use this BAPI to assign profiles to users.
- BAPI_USER_PROFILES_DELETE – Use this BAPI to delete all profile assignments.
- BAPI_USER_UNLOCK - Use this BAPI to unlock users.
With these examples, Process Runner also demonstrates how can security team can efficiently manage users, roles and profiles without being dependent on Transaction, which could be difficult to record and playback, may not work same accross the various SAP systems and tends to run slower then APIs.
Download your free evaluation of Process Runner today and find out how to use these Business APIs from Excel without any scripting or coding.
Learn more on SAP Identity Management BAPIs:
Business users are faces with increasing challenges in today’s competitive and economically challenging environment—coupled with notion that most CIOs have a keen interest in optimizing IT resources. Business users are looking for cost and productivity improvements, and increasing business agility.
For us at Innowera — SAP data management is not a job — its a passion. We have a very exciting white paper highlighting our approach to helping SAP business users to proactively manage sap data needs with Innowera Process Runner by providing automation capabilities such as:
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Upload and download of data, information and events to and from SAP system.
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Support mass data creation, changes, updates and verification among other activities.
Business users are able to best leverage its resources and repond faster to SAP data management needs, thus increasing the value its SAP applications deliver to the bottom line of the business. Innowera’s SAP data management solutions comprise as unique, comprehensive blend of domain knowledge and expertise with technology that accelerate each customer’s journey towards and improved bottom line.
Read the whitepaper and contact us at info@innowera.com
Innowera has released innowera.com website in English, French and German languages. Language can be selected by clicking on top left corner of any of the web pages.
With this, Innowera website is available to view in prominent European languages. This will expand Innowera’s footprints to other areas where communicating in local language is important.
Mickey Shah, Founder and CSA quoted “This quality work shows Innowera’s commitment not only to build the next generation automation software but also to build next generation of customer relationships. There is a lot to learn from cultures around the world and the best way to bring that home is to talk to them in their own language.”
Innowera is also planning to release Process Runner, it’s enterprise class automation software family in these languages soon.
Innowera is pleased to announce the release of Process Runner v2.0, bringing new features and functionality to you and your business. Process Runner supports data management between SAP and Excel executing across:
• Transactions
• BAPIs (Business API) / RFMs
• GUI Scripting
• Tables and Views using Data Extractor
This new version of Process Runner includes a high speed enterprise data extractor with many new features and enhanced flexibility based on customer feedback.
Process Runner is an enterprise class solution that provides broad coverage to drive efficient data management across SAP systems. To see a list of Process Runner’s industry leading features, visit http://www.innowera.com/prorfeatures.html
“..(Process Runner) has improved our performance in master data maintenance by about 80%, has saved us plenty of time and is above all it is really easy to use.” Says a senior IT advisor of the big4 consulting firm.
Mickey Shah, Founder and Chief Software Architect of Process Runner quotes “With turbo fast data extraction capability, Process Runner will enable SAP workforce to do more. We always want to have data at our finger tips and Process Runner truly enables this. With the best of the class Transaction and BAPI upload/download capabilities, Process Runner will have a unique place on the desktop of SAP workforce with this new addition of Data Extractor functionality. ”
To request a free evaluation copy of Process Runner visit www.innowera.com or contact our sales support line at (877) 791-3414.
About Innowera LLC
Innowera provides easy to use, enterprise class automation software for your SAP workforce. Innowera’s Process Runner line of products make SAP data maintenance tasks easy and reduces burden on valuable IT resources. Process Runner is used by companies like DeBeers, KPMG, NIDEC motors, Vertellus, etc. Process Runner connects SAP and Excel to allow upload and download by simple drag-n-drop operations. Process Runner-DB version can easily connect SAP with MS-Access, MS-SQL, Oracle, Sybase and My-SQL.
Innowera was founded by an ERP industry expert with over 20 years of IT experience providing expertise in SAP implementations for past decade to companies such as Applied Materials, International Paper, Rockwell Collins, Tesoro Petroleum, TetraPak, and others. Innowera was founded in 2007 and is located in Las Colinas, Texas.
Apr 02
You want to automate SAP data maintenance and creation in your enterprise. There are some products in market that does only SAP transaction automation. There are few solution that offers SAP Transaction automation and much more. Question is, how limiting or effective are those transaction-only automation tools? What are the performance implications of these solutions for your SAP landscape and for your desktops of today and tomorrow. What do you need to know before you select an SAP automation software. This blog should answer some of these questions.
Let’s start with one of the questions: Is SAP Transaction-only automation software enough or I need more than that?
Let me ask you this - if you want to run, do you want to use one leg or both? SAP offers automation in many ways. Transaction, BAPI, RFM, GUI Scripts, etc.. If yo are using a software that does only Transaction dependent automation, you are using only one leg. You are bound to be slow and you will eventually get tired and stop running.
See the chart below. This chart lists number of objects and SAP processes that are available in each SAP releases. Notice how SAP is releasing more and more BAPIs and RFMs.
Now the second part of the story - while Transaction automation is important, it doesn’t work well with many enjoy and extended transactions. On the other hand, BAPI and RFMs are specifically designed for program to program interfaces, tend to work well in these cases.
One would agree that humans (for which transactions are designed) and computer programs (for which BAPIs/RFMs are designed) are two different animals and their interaction needs are different. SAP is rightfully designing many transactions for easier human interface and providing ALV Grids, drag and drop and many other neat features. All these new user elements are making it increasingly difficult for Transaction automation software to record and upload or download the data to those transactions.
To address the automation needs, SAP is providing BAPIs and RFMs which are not only designed for program to program interface but also provides much smoother performance to SAP infrastructure and to SAP client software.
Bottom line: One would wish that you need a tool that can automate not only transactions but also Business APIs (BAPIs), released RFMs and in some cases GUI scripted transactions so you can do more in SAP. This very question was not answered by any other tool in SAP automation market place - that is before Innowera Process Runner was introduced.
Much had changed since I first wrote transaction shuttling software in 2000. Most SAP implementations were 3.1h, some were preparing for 4.0. We were still running on first generations of Pentiums. Average desktop computer memory size was about 256MB. Everyone had big CRT monitors. In short, if you look back, it purely looks like a classical legacy world.
If we look today and forward, we have multi core computing power on our desk (or lap), average desktop memory is 1GB, workplace real estate is reclaimed by flat screens. Unfortunately, in SAP automation world, we didn’t make much progress. We are still using only one legged transaction-only data management tools.
Here was my shopping list for the next generation enterprise grade SAP automation software:
- SAP desktop automation must go beyond transactions and include BAPIs, RFMs, GUI Scripting and much more. This will enable more user to tap the vast but unexplored business logic locked in SAP.
- Harness the power of the computers of today and tomorrow and provide multi threading, multi processing - SAP was already designed for that since years and it was time for desktop application to catch up.
- Provide collaborative integration and tools and bring some of the Web 2.0 benefits to ERP world. We is better than Me. When team is sharing the resources and efforts, it’s more agile and responsive.
With Process Runner 2008, all these became reality. Process Runner supports SAP Transactions, BAPIs, RFMs and GUI Scripting from one seamless interface. It has built in auto Parallel Processing and is written in multi threads so application is always responsive. One click scheduling, built in Excel and with Enterprise Sharing implementation, Process Runner allows effortless team collaboration and knowledge sharing, taking productivity to the next level.
SAP automation will never be same again with Process Runner. Not only you will be using your both legs but you will have some muscle power as well. After all, SAP is a trillion pound gorilla, you need an automation software that can harness and tame it.
If this sounds interesting, I invite you to download a copy of Process Runner and see it yourself why Process Runner should have a place on your desktop.
About the author:
Mickey Shah is an SAP techno-wizard. He mostly spent last 10 years implementing SAP for very large corporations in North America and Europe. Mickey posses an outstanding SAP functional and technical knowledge and is well respected among his peers in SAP world. Implemented over 9 full life cycle go lives and upgrades, he knows exactly what it takes to deliver a good SAP automation product. Overall he is enjoying his 20th year in Information Technology, dating back from first program he wrote on Z80 in 1988.
Prior to starting Innowera in 2007, Mickey founded and created winshuttle in 2000.
Innowera, an SAP ERP system data enabling company, has released Process Runnerä software to the general market targeting companies who are using the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system and have a need for efficient and effective data population or management from legacy or desktop systems.
Process Runner is an enterprise grade, next generation SAP data upload, download and migration tool that works through an incredibly easy to use point-click and drag-drop interface, without the need for custom scripting or programming.
Process Runner uses either SAP Transactions, BAPIs, or the GUI scripting method to manage data between SAP and Microsoft Excel. The only software that supports these three major data transfer methods from same interface, Process Runner allows for flexibility and the technical means to get the job done. With powerful options to transfer data between Excel and SAP, Process Runner covers up to 3 times more objects and processes in SAP as compared to any other similar products on the market.
Process Runner also offers Enterprise Sharing, built in auto parallel processing, integration with the Excel Workbook, and an easy to use one-click scheduling feature. A demo and pre-sales support is available to ensure a thorough understanding of Process Runner offering and a risk free path to successful implementation.
Process Runner will benefit any company that uses SAP release 4.6 or greater and Excel 2000 or greater. Depending on the maturity of your installation and the amount of data maintenance required, the Return on Investment of the software could be as little as a few days and will likely be less than 1 year.
Process Runner deployment will reduce the burden of maintaining expensive ABAP and other technical resources, it will greatly improve on the cycle time from the discovery of a data related issue to final resolution, and it will boost technical abilities that will allow overall cleanliness of the SAP system data. Process Runner could help reduce scheduling risk by enabling efficient turn around for master and transactional data related issues during various implementation phases.
To request a free evaluation copy of Process Runner see www.innowera.com or contact our sales support line at (877) 791-3414
About Innowera LLC
Innowera was founded by an ERP industry expert with over 20 years of IT experience providing comprehensive expertises in SAP implementations since last 10 years to companies such as Applied Materials, International Paper, Rockwell Collins, Tesoro Petroleum, TetraPak, and others. Innowera was founded in 2007 and is located in Las Colinas,