InfoShuttle® Client Builder is designed specifically for SAP® customers who need a flexible solution for building new clients in non-production environments. By enabling user-selected master, transaction and related configuration data to be quickly and easily replicated from production systems into fully functional “lean” clients for development, test and training environments, Client Builder dramatically reduces the time and disk space needed when compared with creating a full database copy.

Build New “Lean” Clients to Meet Business-Specific Needs

By selecting only the most relevant business data, Basis, functional, testing, and training teams can quickly replicate production data specific to their needs. The result is an efficient method for configuring subsets of master and transactional data to be used in production support projects. Client Builder can rapidly create small, production-like clients, enabling:

• New clients to be created directly by the person who needs the data
• Data selection to meet functional needs, such as master data by division, plant, or
- location or transactions by date
• Streamlined data replication, reducing a process down to hours that can typically take
- days or weeks
• Clients to be up to 80% smaller than production while maintaining full data integrity

Lower Risk & Improve Efficiency

Client Builder uses the InfoShuttle Content Library, the world’s most extensive repository of SAP objects and relationships, to detect all related data for high integrity transfer to the target system. By leveraging this deep and unique understanding of the SAP data model and relationships, Client Builder enables customers to increase the business value of their SAP production data by putting it to work in development, QA and training processes – all without needing to resort to complex alternatives such as ALE, manual entry and ABAP loads.

The ability to use real life application data helps achieve better reliability in production environments, ensuring:

• Shortened test cycles and lowered application deployment risk by using current,
- consistent data across the enterprise.
• Fewer errors, enabling applications and upgrades can be rolled out faster and employees
- trained more effectively, resulting in significant cost savings.
• Maximum efficiency as Client Builder projects using consistent data can be loaded
- repeatedly to the same or other clients.

Since Client Builder is executed through an SAP standard interface, experienced users will find the product screens familiar and intuitive. Client Builder is run in background mode, allowing other tasks to be completed while the data is being transferred.

To validate that Client Builder is compatible with a customer’s existing SAP environment, Gamma’s proprietary InfoShuttle Discovery Tool is included to identify and adapt any customized data tables, ensuring that all standard master and custom data content is copied, with an option for user-selection of specific master data groups for inclusion or exclusion.