Increased security: scrambled test data
10x improvement in efficiency
Considerable cost and time savings
50 to 70% HANA disk space saving
Coop Denmark A/S (Coop) is one of Denmark’s leading consumer goods retailers. The company was founded in 1866 with the belief that consumers who belong to a community could have access to superior and more affordable goods.
A cooperative owned by 2 million members, Coop operates the retail chains Kvickly, SuperBrugsen, Brugsen, 365discount and Coop.dk.
Together with their subsidiaries, Coop has an annual turnover of approximately DKK 50 billion, and 40,000 employees in total.
Coop Denmark A/S approached EPI-USE Labs with challenges related to refreshing their three-tier SAP System, which consisted of three different systems; SAP Retail, SAP BW/4, and ECC/HR.
These environments had limited capacity on the HANA servers, while the Production database contained an enormous amount of data. Reducing data in large SAP HANA databases was a meticulous process that demanded significant time and effort to ensure data consistency. On average, system upgrades were required every three months.
Coop sought a fast and agile solution that would aid them in minimizing the footprint of their HANA space, and realised that EPI-USE Labs’ Data Sync Manager™ (DSM) Suite was the ideal solution.
We have a big challenge with data. We are a retail business, and we have huge amounts of data. Our Production system is often ten times bigger than our test systems.
Coop used the various components of the DSM Suite (Client Sync, Object Sync and Data Secure), along with EPI-USE Labs’ Query Manager, to address their challenges.
The EPI-USE Labs software played a vital role in enhancing the Coop’s overall operational efficiency and ensuring data security and integrity throughout their systems.
We gained a lot of insight into the data from using the EPI-USE Labs tools and saved a lot of time.
The use of Data Sync Manager and associated EPI-USE Labs’ services has brought significant benefits to Coop, including customized data scrambling, improved data privacy and compliance, enhanced business efficiency, new team habits, and more.
By receiving implementation and maintenance support, Coop was able to address variations in standard SAP solutions. EPI-USE Labs leveraged best practices and previous experiences to ensure a smooth and optimized implementation process.
In addition, the development of specific and customized data coding for Article Price and Price Condition data objects improved privacy and masking of personal information.
Although standard masking options were available, EPI-USE Labs provided additional value by customizing the data encoding approach to Coop's unique requirements, resulting in the development of a Coop-specific algorithm.
The EPI-USE Labs products have shortened the time and effort to get a valid system up and running. The major benefit from the DSM Suite is that we can take over objects and we can make them usable, and test without compromising GDPR data. The ability to do a quick and valid sync is also a benefit.
Disk space saving:
HANA systems saving of 50 -70 % for our test environments.
Time savings:
Both when doing a refresh and slicing data, and getting small batches of fresh test data on demand.
Increased security: Production data scrambled and anonymized before being copied into test systems.
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