Attunity Gold Client Enables Global Consolidation at BAT

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1 Attunity Gold Enables Global Consolidation at BAT

World s second largest tobacco company founded over 100 years ago. Who are BAT?

A number of them being emerging markets Has 250 brands.

Currently undertaking a major re-alignment of business practices from a federated model to a centralised business

2 World s second largest tobacco company founded over 100 years ago. Who are BAT? Looking for consolidation of business practices and supporting IT systems. Operates in approximately 186 countries. A number of them being emerging markets Has 250 brands. Approximately 95,000 employees (45,000 knowledge workers ) Gross turn over 40bn per year ( 26bn taxes). Currently undertaking a major re-alignment of business practices from a federated model to a centralised business model. Whilst the underlying business is the same, there is a drive for more shared services. A heavy focus on consolidation to leverage capabilities and reduce costs through - - Standardisation - Enterprise class solutions

3 History SAP Estate 5 BW s, 8 ERP s, 5 HR s, 5 > BO s, SRM, 5 APO s, 2 Portals and they are the ones we knew about Old versions with poor lifecycle management If not broken why upgrade? Arrrrrrr! Transformation Project

4 Transformation Project in BAT Key Facts Single largest SAP Project within BAT 6 year journey to consolidate and prepare global processes for roll-out 79 Instances of SAP (sandboxes, development, test, regression, and production systems.) Single ECC >20Tb, 225,000 SAPS Single BW >50Tb, 220,00 SAPS Single APO 30,000+ users

5 Why Attunity Gold?

Attunity Gold Attunity Gold is an SAP application specific software that allows you to manage data across the landscape Data copy functionality allows you to copy full master data and subset of

6 Attunity Gold Attunity Gold is an SAP application specific software that allows you to manage data across the landscape Data copy functionality allows you to copy full master data and subset of master/transactional data from Productive to Non- Productive and Non-Productive to Non-Productive environments Data transformation functionality allows you to scramble/mask sensitive data Data deletion functionality allows you to delete specific set of records.

7 Background An SAP system refresh is required when one wishes to copy one SAP system to another Such as copying the current SAP Production System to a Test System This system copy is performed to ensure that the test system has the latest copy of production data Once the system refresh is complete, some post processing must take place to ensure that the test system does not behave as a production system System copies such as this take Time to plan and execute Large teams of specialist resources to undertake the work Reduce system availability up to eight days down time.

8 Attunity Gold for SAP Attunity Gold for SAP is a certified SAP add-on that allows user selectable data transfer from System A to System B (usually Production to Non Production) The transfer of data can be either A copy of the production system with reduced transaction data (refresh alternative) Intelligent Data Transfer: Allows project teams to quickly and dynamically select and replicate user-defined subsets of SAP application data from production and non-production sources to non-production targets within the SAP landscape.

9 Two Options Option System Copy Attunity Gold Description Copy the entire production system into the test system. No data selection. Use Attunity Gold SAP tool to copy specific data from production system into test system, scrambling the data where needed Pros Proven to work Tool already used in BAT Can be part of the industrial delivery model Lower legal/audit risk Option to automate data scrambling Faster deployment, less system down time Lower hardware costs. Cons High risk of production data being mishandled Effort needed to manage system copy Remove effort to remediate data copied T-System costs System Downtime up to 8 days for system copy Cost of storage for the Transformation Project Test systems Unsustainable not an industrialised solution. Need to develop Attunity Gold capability

10 Why Attunity Gold? Attunity Gold has the potential of solving two significant issues for the Transformation Project programs 1. The notable project risk associated with having an unsupported production system 2. Unsustainably large test systems.

11 Risk of Unsupported Production System

12 Around Technical Go-Live As the project nears any technical go-live stages the D Development system will be made ready for BAU support For the system to be provide effective support it must contain some test data to allow unit testing System Copy is not possible as this will make the development system unavailable for up to 8 days leaving production system unsupported. Development D Test T Production P Development D2 Test T2 Regression R

Around Technical Go-Live Faced with a choice of: Temporarily making the Development System unavailable to perform a system copy Or, having no test data to support unit testing There is a notable

13 Around Technical Go-Live Faced with a choice of: Temporarily making the Development System unavailable to perform a system copy Or, having no test data to support unit testing There is a notable risk to the Production System Attunity Gold can mitigate the risk by quickly copying test data from the Regression System R04. Development D Test T Production P Development D2 Test T2 Regression R

14 Unsustainably Large Test Systems

15 Using Production Data Transformation Project All future Transformation Project go-live data loads will be made into a live system which contains active data Migrating markets will often append master data already in use by the live markets To ensure that the data and business functionality is deployed correctly, the test systems need to be pre-populated with a copy of the live data Training systems are to be populated with test data. Transformatio n Project Production Test Training Production data used to support testing Test data used to support training

16 Example Using Copy Process Deployment Group 1 Transformation Project Production Test 0.5 Tb Storage 2 Tb Storage Training Copy everything from the production client four times Deployment Group 2 Transformation Project Production Test Training 1 Tb Storage 4 Tb Storage Deployment Group 3 Transformation Project Production Test Training Unsustainable storage requirements 2 Tb Storage 8 Tb Storage

17 Example Using Attunity Gold Deployment Group 1 Transformation Project Production Test Training 0.5 Tb Storage 2 Tb Storage Copy just what is needed Deployment Group 2 Transformation Project Production Test Training 1 Tb Storage 2 Tb Storage Deployment Group 3 Transformation Project Production Z Test Training More Industrialised approach - can be repeated 2 Tb Storage 2 Tb Storage

18 Attunity Gold Solutions

19 Attunity Gold Service Since April 2013 a Gold service has been operational in the Transformation Project Currently in place are: Capabilities to selectively copy or scramble certain data objects Country and language sensitive scrambling capability to allow anonymised data to remain in context during user testing The service has been used 95 times since being established more than once per week A full master data copy to support testing requirement can be executed in under 2 days.

20 Attunity Gold Scenarios Four support scenarios have been added into the proposal: Scenario Source Target Type of data 1 Data/Test Support Production Test/Data Selected Master Data with scrambling 2 Training Support Test Training All Master Data, some transactional with scrambling 3 BAU Support Regression Test Regression Test Scrambling of test data 4 Data Migration change of client Data Test/Data Selected Master Data with scrambling

21 Attunity Gold Success The Gold service has proved to be: Reliable and effective An essential tool for moving data The only way to anonymise sensitive data in the Transformation Project Landscape Gold has allowed the Data Migration team to switch clients at will removing the restrictions placed by System availability This facility allowed the Transformation Project to maintain its aggressive delivery timelines

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