POLYTEC GROUP
Customer & challenge
The POLYTEC GROUP is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality plastic solutions. It is active on four continents with around 3,600 employees. The Austrian company is a full-service provider in the field of injection molding, a specialist in fiber-reinforced plastics, and a producer of original accessories made of plastic and stainless steel. POLYTEC counts renowned global brands in the automotive and commercial vehicle industries among its customers and is increasingly supplying markets outside of this sector.
As part of its cloud strategy, the plastics specialist was faced with the challenge of providing data from SAP S/4HANA to the Microsoft Azure environment for analysis and reporting applications with Power BI as the front end. The focus is on applications from the finance and HR departments as well as material master data.
“yunIO is our universal tool when it comes to making SAP data usable in our Microsoft Power Platform in Azure.”
Arthur Trippel, Specialist for OT & Data Analytics, POLYTEC GROUP
Solution with yunIO
Theobald Software offered the right tool, and it won over the trust of POLYTEC, as Trippel, Specialist in OT & Data Analytics reported: “We have consistently been able to improve upon our interface technology with solutions from Theobald Software. We started by running RPA tools, like UIPath. Then we switched to Xtract Universal from Theobald Software. We use the interface for larger tables and delta logic. And now, as a next step, we have decided to use yunIO as a cloud connector for SAP and our Microsoft Power Platform in Azure after the support team at Theobald Software made us aware of the solution.”
The POLYTEC GROUP started as an “early adopter” with a development version of yunIO, which gradually expanded with additional features. Trippel recalled: “We were in close contact with Theobald Software during a pilot project and received very good support then. We haven’t had to submit a real support case for yunIO yet, since the solution is relatively self-explanatory and easy to use. Around 60 services are now mapped with yunIO, around 30 of which are already in productive use.”
Challenge: SAP data provision from S/4HANA to Microsoft Azure
Solution: yunIO
Time to deploy: A few days
Added value: Leveraging SAP data with automation solutions such as Power Automate; more efficient collaboration between data engineers and the SAP team
The main advantage for POLYTEC is that it can use yunIO to not only extract data from SAP tables and views, but also to utilize BAPIs. This allows for SAP data to be used in automation solutions, such as Power Automate and Power Apps.
Another benefit for POLYTECS’s OT & Data Analytics specialists is an improved efficiency and collaboration between their SAP and Data Applications teams: “yunIO has allowed us to distribute tasks now. We don’t have two separate worlds in which programming takes place. Instead, SAP standard modules are prepared so that we can execute them via yunIO. As data engineers, we can now access SAP data more efficiently, especially in early project phases, since we are no longer dependent on the support of the SAP team.”
This has made projects possible that would previously have been unimaginable due to a lack of resource availability. As an example, Trippel cites a billing interface between the HR and FI areas in SAP that connects different departments and SAP systems: “We as data engineers were able to build a translation tool with yunIO: The data is collected from point A (the actual SAP system), processed, and then placed on a module provided by the SAP team in order to supply the target system. In the past, such a task would have required the SAP team to do their own programming.”
