Sure Stats is an SAP add-on that provides detailed statistical information about system utilization, enabling informed business decisions. It tracks various metrics like execution time and user activity, storing data for historical reporting while offering features for filtering and archiving. The tool identifies key usage patterns, alerts users to potential issues, and categorizes data for easy analysis, adapting to different SAP versions during installation and updates.

2. What is Sure Stats?
Sure Stats is an add-on for SAP that provides Organizations with detailed Statistical Information about how their SAP
system is being utilized. This information empowers users to make important business decisions with confidence
The Type of Statistical Information that Sure Stats stores includes:
• Program / Transaction
• Execution User
• Terminal Used
• Response Time
• CPU Time
• GUI Time
• Load Time
• Wait Time
• DB Time
• Number of DB reads/writes/deletes
• Amount of memory used
• etc
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3. Sure Stats
DB Tables
SAP Kernel
Dataset
Files
Work
Processor
.....Work
Processor
Work
Processor
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Reporting
The SAP Kernel records Statistical Information for every
dialog step that is executed within SAP on each Work
Processor
This Statistical Information is stored in Dataset files on the
SAP Server (default is set to 48 hours)
Sure Stats accumulates the data in the Dataset files at the
end of each day into a series of DB Tables
The Sure Stats DB Tables provide Historical Statistical
Data for reporting purposes
How does it work?
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4. What are the benefits of using Sure Stats?
• Identify your most frequently used Programs: This is especially useful before an upgrade so you can
prioritise these programs
• Identify who the main users are for specific Programs: This is useful as these users can provide you with
detailed information about a program as well as assist in getting changes tested
• Alerts: Can be used to inform you of potential problems before they become actual problems, eg when
programs experience an increase in average response time (possibly due to an inefficient change)
• Monitor the workload on your system: This will let you know when your peak periods are as well as how your
hardware is coping with them
• Identify possible bottlenecks: eg highlight long running programs that might need to be improved
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5. SAP typically only stores 48 hours of detailed Statistical information, mainly due to the sheer volume of data that is
involved. Sure Stats is able to store more than 48 hours worth of Statistical information by making use of the following:
• Filtering: When Sure Stats queries the Statistical Dataset files, it allows you to filter what data will be passed to the
Sure Stats DB Tables, eg only show stats for Transaction/Programs that take longer than 30 seconds, or only show
Custom Programs as SAP Standard programs (the majority) will be monitored by normal processes such as SAP
EarlyWatch etc
• Multiple DB Tables: Sure Stats stores the RAW Statistical Metadata in a single DB Table. However Sure Stats also
has a series of DB Tables that aggregate the Metadata to make reporting easier, namely daily, weekly, monthly and
yearly aggregated DB Tables
• Archiving: The Sure Stats DB Tables have archiving functionality. Even once the data has been archived, it is possible
to query Archived data as well
Statistical Data Volume Management
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6. Sure Stats Load Program - Selection Screen
This Program will run daily to retrieve the previous day’s
Statistical Data from the various Dataset Files and transfer this
data to the Sure Stats DB Tables
It is possible to Filter what data you are interested in keeping
track of, for example:
• You might only be interested in programs that exceed a runtime
of 60 seconds
• You might only be interested in tracking Custom Programs (ie
Z* programs)
Segmented Reads can be used to cater for systems that have
large amounts of Statistical data
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7. Sure Stats Report - Selection Screen
Users can specify what Level of Statistical Data they wish to
view, ie: Raw data, or summarised at a daily, weekly, monthly or
yearly level
Using the Filters on this Selection Screen, Users can be very
specific in selecting what type of data they wish to view
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8. Sure Stats Report - RAW Statistical Data View
This View shows each and every single Transaction / Program execution on your system
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9. Sure Stats Report - Monthly Statistical Data View
This View summarises Program / Transaction executions at a Monthly level. This is done by making use of a
counter to represent the total number of executions of each Program / Transaction in the month
Drilldown Reporting is supported for more detailed Analysis on a record
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10. Sure Stats Report - Monthly Statistical Data View - Drilldown
Depending on which report type was selected, this Detailed Report will show:
• Daily: Analyses the last 14 days worth of data
• Weekly: Analyses the last 12 weeks worth of data
• Monthly: Analyses the last 12 months worth of data
• Yearly: Analyses the last 5 years worth of data
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11. Sure Stats Report - Monthly Statistical Data View Drilldown (Graph)
Presents the Drilldown Report in an
interactive 4D Graph
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12. • The SAP Kernel stores Statistical information differently depending on what version of SAP is being
used
• As a result of this, Sure Stats has different versions of the “Load” process to cater for different versions
of SAP
• Aside from the “Load” process, the rest of the processes and programs within Sure Stats will work the
same regardless of which version of SAP you are using
• If you do install Sure Stats and perform an upgrade in the future, you will need to update the “Load”
process, however the rest of the processes and programs will not need to be changed
SAP Versions
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13. One of our other products, Sure Landscapes, will be used to for the installation process.
Sure Landscapes will automatically create the following objects on your system in a matter of seconds:
• Development Class: A New Development will be created for Sure Stats and it will contain all objects required by
Sure Stats
• Transport: A new Transport will be created which will contain all components of Sure Stats
• Domains, Domain Values
• Data Elements
• Structures
• Database Tables
• Programs, Program Texts, Program Screens
Installation
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14. Cost and Support
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Support Contract Service Contract
Initial Cost: TBC Initial Cost: TBC
Monthly Cost: TBC Monthly Cost: TBC
8 hours of Support per month 40 hours of Support per month
Free Support during a SAP upgrade Free Support during a SAP upgrade
Free Sure Stats Updates Free Sure Stats Updates
Monthly Reports & Analysis
Making performance enhancements to long running programs to
ensure improvements in the Monthly Reports