UDO for SAP PI/PO^®

SAP Integration Expert, Multinational Cosmetic Company, 2022 – 1000 interfaces

“We love using UDO for SAP PI/PO in our project. It offers loads of reports and tools to analyse our interfaces. UDO allows us to quickly generate Documentation and flow diagrams which saves us a lot of time.

“The latest mapping similarity analysis feature is pretty cool. It helps us identify and remove redundant mappings in our repository.”

“I highly recommend this tool to any company that has SAP PI/PO in their landscape.”

Project manager, Pharmaceutical company, 2020 – 2,500 interfaces

“We started to use UDO in order to prepare our migration between 2 SAP PI/PO version. Utilization of UDO to manage documentation helped us to reduce our documentation effort by a factor 10, and our cost by a factor 15 compare to fully human managed documentation.

This helped us to hugely accelerate the project by reducing effort spent on the analyze and the technical documentation of the interface.”

Integration Architect, Food and Confectionery company, 2021 – 500 interfaces

“The mapping compare is very useful, something I have been missing since I started with PI about 13 years ago.

Many of our EDI mappings are standardized, but still handled in separate mappings to reduce complexity and dependencies. With this tool I can easily see that mappings based on same template are in sync. This will go into our mandatory checks when releasing new versions.”

App Integration Services Manager, Global Hygiene and Health company, 2014 – 4,000 interfaces

“We used UDO extensively a few years ago during our migration to SAP PO Java. We found it useful to discover the unused interfaces, using the ‘message volume’ information. We extracted all the details to excel, and then organized the project tasks based on the excel export.

I love the Excel export – the filtering capability of Excel makes is much easier to analyze our system.

Today I still use it, mainly for finding undocumented interfaces. For example, someone asks me which interface is writing to directory X. I export all the channels to Excel and run a full search to find the channel. Or a colleague ask for an example how to use a PI module – since I do not remember all the cases, I run again a full text search on excel.”

IT Manager, Global Automotive company, 2017 – 2000 interfaces

“What really makes UDO a game changer is the documentation part. After years paying consulting companies to document the interfaces’ development, we finally put a stop on it with the export tool. UDO export in seconds the whole documentation of an interface.

Just this saving in consulting costs fulfilled the ROI targets.”

EAI Platform Manager, Pharmaceutical Company, 2015 – 1,500 interfaces

“We have been using the UDO tool for several years and it helped us a lot to standardize our mapping documentation and to reduce our documentation efforts.
UDO also provides other helpful features like full-text search functionality across all configuration objects, the identification of orphaned objects and the generation of reports which facilitate our daily SAP PI business.
Our SAP PI landscape contains many configuration scenarios, so it was clear for us that UDO would significantly reduce our documentation and running costs.
I also like to mention that Arianim has a great customer focus and reacts very quickly on UDO questions from our experience.”

Senior Manager, Global Integration & SAP, Baking Industry, 2017 – 700 interfaces

The software is easy to install, on your own PC, and configuration takes no time. You just need to add a few roles to your user. There is also no performance issues when its running reports.

There is the ability to create documentation on interfaces, which can have your own logo on them. At any time, any interface document can be re-exported, as a technical specification with mapping details. This also includes a visual diagram of the process.

Every now and then, I can check on Channel versions (and versions within last 12 months) and review why some have many changes. This can also then help you make decisions on your standardised processes, and change interfaces where needed.
All in all a great addition!”

IT Manager, Global Automotive company, 2017 – 2000 interfaces

“In a complex landscape, with thousands of Integration Scenarios, a Tool like UDO is really a game changer – in a few months, UDO became our main PI administration cockpit.

As a compliance tool, UDO can compare the ESR between different systems, like Quality and Production Systems, making the housekeeping activities much lighter.

However, what really makes UDO a game changer is the documentation part. After years paying consulting companies to document the interfaces’ development, we finally put a stop on it with the export tool. UDO export in seconds the whole documentation of an interface. Just this saving in consulting costs fulfilled the ROI targets.

As for our new goals, we are going agile and are sundowning all our Interface lists, such as excel files, and promoting UDO as the source of truth regarding SAP Interfaces.”

EAI Manager, Global Medical Technology company, 2020 – 1000 interfaces

“We use the UDO tool to meet the strict documentation requirements in the healthcare sector. It considerably reduces the documentation effort for this.

Furthermore, it is very helpful to provide management with various reports (e.g. “How many orders are sent via EDI?”)”

Process Integration – Middleware Manager, Global Electronics Group, 2020 – 600 interfaces

“The IFlow overview consists many useful information about the interface objects and the filtering options are extensive to find quickly the right interface.

We use the IFlow documentation generation feature for every changed/new integration scenario and therewith its easy for us to keep our interface documentations consistent and up-to-date. And of course we save much time to use for other tasks.”

Project manager, Pharmaceutical company, 2020 – 2,500 interfaces

“We started to use UDO in order to prepare our migration between 2 SAP PI/PO version. Utilization of UDO to manage documentation helped us to reduce our documentation effort by a factor 10, and our cost by a factor 15 compare to fully human managed documentation.

This helped us to hugely accelerate the project by reducing effort spent on the analyze and the technical documentation of the interface. We also benefit from the overview of the interface to quickly detect which certificate or account would be required on the new system thanks to the Channel export functionality.

On the day to day, it’s now also helping us to quickly review how many interface use specific adapter, or which channel is connect to which receiver. We had a request to update an SFTP server where user informed us for a specific interface. But crosschecking with UDO allowed us to detect that this same server was used on a second interface from another user and avoid a productive issue.”

PO Architect, National Railways Authority, 2020 – 700 interfaces

“We are very satisfied with the UDO tool. It simplifies the search enormously, especially if we have faulty channels and have to search for the corresponding interface. In Excel this is very complicated or in NWDS.

Until now, we have prepared the interface documentation by hand. With UDO we can create our interface documentation in a unified way and within a very short time.

The interface overview is always up to date and does not have to be tediously added manually in an Excel list.”

Lead Integration Architect, Global Manufacturing Company, 2020 – 1000 interfaces

“UDO is a very simple tool to list all configurations and relations. Compared to any other types of extraction its lightweight and gives you all the detail in a few minutes without the hassel of manually building information that gets obsolete.

For us we don’t use it for migration but for actually knowing what we have deployed in PI/PO. With this tool we can hand over updated data to the AMS organization as well publish limited parts to the general audience.”

Integration Architect, Confectionery Company, USA, 2022 – 800 interfaces

“Since we’re a small team, I need tools to save time and UDO does that for me.
It is a very handy tool.”

Senior Manager, Global Integration & SAP, Baking Industry, 2017 – 700 interfaces

“UDO compliments the existing processes we have with regards interface monitoring & KPI reporting. In fact, since we have had UDO, we have redesigned most of the other processes we have.

All objects (Directory, ESR, SLD, TPM) can easily be exported to Excel, reviewed and reported on. Interfaces can be reviewed with volume for those in error, scheduled, terminated and successful. Our KPI’s have never looked better and we now consider charging out usage to individual departments.”

Integration Expert, Agriscience Company, 2022 – 900 interfaces

“The main justification to license UDO in 2017 was the lack of documentation of our more than 700 production Interfaces. Once you get the documentation, is really comfortable to know that at every change you made in the interface, UDO is able to easily update the documentation in seconds.”

“Also good is the ability to find anything you need in the UDO cockpit tool faster than using either SAP ESR/IR or NW Admin console.
You can save all your extracts in a file so next time you need to run it, you don’t need to extract all over again from your SAP PO instance, in seconds you can query whatever you want.
I am used to use UDO several times in meetings/requests when any given interface came up to discussion and we need answers about it, UDO provide me that in less than a minute.”

“Arianim support is always much appreciated and new features can be discussed and evaluated by them for future releases in the tool.”

Founder, SAP Consulting company, 20 employees

“If our pharmaceuticals client was to begin using UDO, we would not be able to charge as many billable days.”