AvenueWizard

This is a tested process for SAP VC customers seeking alternative ways to view or extract their Variant Configurator product model.  Includes XML output for a variety of uses or extracting the VC Model and moving it to the CWG Sandbox or to the eSpline Portal for use in the Managing VC application where there is a model view report and the ability to compare two models, collaborate with fellow VC Team members about the changes and approve any or all changes. 

We introduced the extraction technology May 7, 2007 to attendees of the 2007 Spring European SAP Configuration Workgroup [CWG] Conference in Salzburg, Austria for companies wishing to participate.   Then it was an Early Adopter solution. 

After 6 months of exhaustive testing a much more complete version was unveiled (many of you remember it as SilverMine) to North American SAP customers October 8, 2007 at the Fall USA CWG Conference in Marco Island, FL.  It was no longer an Early Adopter Version.

Salzburg and Marco Island participants received a 1Gb USB memory stick with the [SAP VC Extract] software installed and all that had to be done was to plug the USB into a computer that had a link to SAP.   

Over thirty [>30] high profile and recognized named companies volunteered one or more of their VC product models and these models have been instrumental for us in attaining a high quality of accuracy for the extraction process.  For all of you that participated, a big thank you.   

Check out the submitted model analytics presented at 2008 European CWG Conference in Berlin 

AvenueWizard:  It extracts characteristics, characteristic values, configuration profiles, constraints, object dependencies, pre-conditions, selection conditions, Tables,  and all other objects from the VC or IPC Knowledge base and includes multi-level models, and Bills of Material.   Advanced Mode models are supported, too.

To-date we have handled the hard stuff including pre-conditions, selection conditions, UI and constraints as examples and successfully downloaded 100+ SAP customers' product models.   VC, IPC, CRM/IPC and Advanced Mode models have been successfully extracted.

If there is a security concern, we certainly honor that and can provide a Mutual Non Disclosure Agreement before a SAP configurable product model is downloaded.  If your company wishes to have this capability implemented behind your own firewall, that is also possible.

How AvenueWizard Works...

AvenueWizard enables you, the SAP VC customer, to login to SAP in a non intrusive way. After the AvenueWizard console detects that you have SAP permission to do so,  AvenueWizard identifies and displays all configurable product models or you make a manual entry.  You select which models to make available to the AvenueWizard and those models are extracted, encrypted and placed in a secure portal. 

We receive notification that new data has been added and we pick up your extracted model, create an XML version and translate and transform your SAP product model and generate several outputs that we place in a secure customer portal.   You will be able to see a pdf report of your entire product model and if another version is downloaded, we can quickly show you only the changes or differences between the two VC models.  No smoke and mirrors here. 

After the review, we send you a username and password so that you can review it for yourself on your own or for you to show others.  No high pressure.  

If you are looking for the capability to move your VC product models outside SAP and put them on the web, or on mobile devices, you should participate. 

If you require a Non Disclosure Agreement, let us know, we will provide you with a Mutual Non Disclosure Agreement by email.

What participants take home...

The AvenueWizard process includes many output files, screens and reports and we place all that information on a secure customer portal.  The first phase includes:

• a XML representation of your SAP VC model, .
• a hyperlinked documentation of your converted VC product model, and
• ayou receive the Configit product model application so you can show it to others.

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