SAP Replication Server

Score9 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP Replication Server?

SAP's Sybase Replication Server is database development and management software.

Categories & Use Cases

Connect to traditional data sources
Ability to connect to traditional data sources like relational databases, flat files, XML files and packaged applications
Category average: 8.9
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
Ability to connect to non-traditional data sources like Hadoop and other big data technologies, and NoSQL databases
Category average: 7.6
Simple transformations
Simple data transformations are calculations, data type conversions, aggregations and search and replace operations
Category average: 8.9

Business rules and workflow
Ability to define and manage business rules and workflows
Category average: 8.2
Collaboration
Collaboration is enabled by a shared repository of project information and metadata
Category average: 7.8
Integration with MDM tools
Integration with master data management tools to ensure data consistency across the organization
Category average: 7.2

Gene Baker View profile

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

guaranteed delivery
high availability
scalable
low latency
data transformation

Cons

make implementation easier
make programming easier
offer out of the box pre-defined use cases

Return on Investment

Positive in the fact that Rep Server has prevented corruption from being propogated
Positive - we continue to see value every day from the product
Positive - we replicate our audit trail to an audit server that no one can touch - has helped to prevent and detect fraud

Alternatives Considered

Oracle GoldenGate

Other Software Used

MongoDB, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Bruce Speidel View profile

Senior Staff Engineer in Information Technology at Charter Communications (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Training was excellent on the product.
Great customer service when questions arose.
Functionality was awesome.
Bringing the main OLTP down for maintenance then allowed down time we could previously never afford to make SLA committments

Cons

A few bugs existed in the specific implementation we created requirements for, and we had to wait for Sybase to fix those bugs before it went live to production
Two way replication had issues where if the same table was being updated by both source and destination, a decision had to made on the "truth". We had to write some special software for specific business requirements.
Sometimes RepServer would go down, and we didn't know about it until the next time a healthcheck was performed. We had to write some monitoring software to notify us if things went down.

Return on Investment

The positive impact was better performance from our application using these new databases available to the business.
Negative impact was development time
Another negative impact was that Sybase engineering had to patch RepServer to fix a bug we discovered.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Real time data transfer.
Enhanced data monitoring and Transformation Capability.
Low maintenance.
Tight integration with SAP

Cons

Data Reconciliation Functionality.

Return on Investment

A positive is that it allow quick business decision making on the basis of real time data. Huge time saving for business.

Other Software Used

SAP Business Warehouse, SAP ERP

Informatica Cloud Data Integration

Oracle GoldenGate

SAP Replication Server

What is SAP Replication Server?

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Connect to traditional data sources

Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

Simple transformations

Areas for Improvement

Business rules and workflow

Collaboration

Integration with MDM tools

Reviews

Replication Server offers guaranteed delivery and data protection

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Alternatives Considered

Other Software Used

Sybase Replication Server 11.9 review

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