Sysparency cuts effort in half and increases transparency

SAP individual programs: Digitize faster and more validly than others

What sounds like a standard and thus as if it were irrelevant in the tough competition is, however, in reality the decisive factor. After all, it is not the basic SAP system that determines business processes and their success, but the individual extensions and ABAP programs that have often grown within the company and software system over many decades. Knowing, understanding and optimizing these often determines whether extensive digitization succeeds or fails. SAP developers and ABAP programmers are generally rare. If they also have to use more than half of their capacities to explain the existing code instead of optimizing the software, companies are giving away valuable potential.

Transparency in SAP enhancements

Sysparency wants to solve this problem. The company has developed a tool of the same name and promises to bring transparency to SAP enhancements. Sysparency is the market leader for automated analysis and documentation of SAP custom programs and legacy enterprise software. With Sysparency docuWIKI, companies can understand how their SAP enhancements work, make their business software more efficient and robust, and significantly reduce development and replacement costs.

Ten years of research

Sysparency has developed its globally unique solutions in more than ten years of research work and has been putting its tools into practice for more than two years. The company is a spin-off of the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the Software Competence Center Hagenberg, is already analyzing the software of federal authorities such as the Austrian Ministry of Finance, large banks and energy providers, as well as well-known industrial customers as part of digitization projects.

Solution to the problem of skilled workers

Sysparency promises nothing less than halving the digitization effort and saving 60 percent of ABAP developer capacity. This is achieved through automated documentation that is comprehensible even to non-technicians, both of the basic structure of the system and of the individual transactions, functionalities and algorithms. Where IT experts and developers are scarce, automated documentation frees up resources. The shortage of IT specialists will not be solved by more heads, but only by better procedures and routines. 

Central location of a complete SAP business documentation

Sysparency analyzes existing SAP enhancements and ABAP programs and generates automated documentation from them in the form of an online-capable WIKI system. This means that the generated documentation is so simple and transparent that it not only becomes comprehensible for technicians and software developers, but is also readable and understandable for non-IT departments, management and external auditors. In line with the definition of a WIKI application, it is also possible to insert existing documentation and individualized content into Sysparency. This functionality makes Sysparency docuWIKI the central location for complete SAP business documentation.

More cost-effectiveness: fewer queries, more efficiency

For SAP decision-makers, the automatically generated and always up-to-date documentation from Sysparency means a significant increase in the speed of digitization, because queries from the business departments, management and IT are significantly reduced and the time capacities gained are thus reflected in new urgent and productive digitization projects. This has a positive impact on the efficiency and ROI of SAP projects. Automated documentation also saves time and money by avoiding duplication of effort, increasing transparency and traceability for all parties involved, and helping to avoid errors and ambiguities.

Better decisions

With Sysparency, decision-making reliability increases because the real-time documentation is available online at any time, so that anyone can access the current status of the enhancements from anywhere and gain an overview. Thus, business decisions can be made based on sound SAP data. At the same time, the traceability of decisions increases. Due to the clarity of the documentation, programmed software decisions and functional changes can be quickly traced, which leads to better control and plausibility of business decisions. In addition, Sysparency docuWIKI and the documentation stored there make it easier to onboard new employees. The documentation available online can be used as training material for new technical and IT employees who need to familiarize themselves with the SAP system.

Four modules for more transparency

Currently, Sysparency offers four modules to help companies with their digitization projects and software investments.

Sysparency insightREPORT automatically extracts all relevant software key figures from SAP individual programs and prepares this information as a basis for sound business decisions.

The Sysparency businessANALYST automatically generates masks and control flow diagrams showing the possible user interaction. Decisions are represented by mathematical formulas or decision tables.

The Sysparency enterpriseARCHITECT presents all direct file accesses and implemented interfaces transparently and clearly. The information can be exported for enterprise architecture software.

Through the data structures implemented by a software application, the company, administrators and users gain deep insights into the business logic and technical structure. This is made possible by Sysparency dataREPORT.

More acceptance for algorithms, AI and co.

In addition to the practical benefits for companies, Sysparency has a mission: democratize software. If decisions in companies are increasingly made by software or even AI, these decisions must be comprehensible - for management, but also for employees and the interested public. Only what is comprehensible will also find acceptance. This applies to change processes in companies on a small scale and to a largely digital society on a large scale. Only those who know how a decision comes about can evaluate and implement it, criticize it or correct it. Sysparency initially makes this possible at the level of SAP development, ABAP programming and for corporate digitization processes. However, the technology can be extended and could make any algorithm transparent in the future. Sysparency should thus contribute to paving the way for a digitally competent and digitized society all the way to the "self-driving state".