Purchasing an open hub license allows you to distribute data to other non-SAP systems using the open hub destination and use various additional methods to extract data from the BW system.
Various tools suitable for extracting mass data are available:
Open hub destination
Write data to a file using an analysis process
More information: Data Targets for an Analysis Process
Using the Data Federator: Access to BW data using SAP BusinessObjects tools (Web Intelligence, Explorer, Xcelsius). An open hub license is not required.
More information: Data Federator
Besides the tools, we also provide you with different interfaces that you can use to program a data extraction operation from the BW system. These interfaces are not suitable for mass data however:
Various interfaces to connect third-party front-end tools
More information: Open Analysis Interfaces
BI Java SDK
For more information, see “BI Java SDK” in the documentation for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse.
Data Mart Interface
More information: Data Mart Interface