Introduction to SAP Data Hub Modeling
SAP Data Hub helps close the gap between data silos and seamlessly integrate them into the business processes. It also helps combine data silos with enterprise data and process them for better business insights.
The objective of SAP Data Hub to seamlessly integrate data silos and to combine and process them for business insights is achieved with tasks and task workflows. These task workflows help set data flows in a logical order and trigger their executions based on conditions. The SAP Data Hub Modeling tool, a component of SAP Data Hub, helps graphically model different design-time objects that are necessary to execute a task workflow.
In addition, you can also use the capabilities in the SAP Data Hub Modeling tool to transfer data from an SAP BW system or from an SAP HANA system to an SAP Vora system.
The image here illustrates the end-to-end process for creating and executing a task, task workflow, or transferring data.
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Component |
Description |
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System |
Systems are stand-alone data sources in the distributed data landscape. A system can belong to only one zone. |
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Connection |
Connection is technical access point to a system. A system may have multiple connections, but a connection is always related to a system within a zone. |
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Project |
Projects are containers for design-time objects in SAP Data Hub. You create SAP Data Hub objects within a project. |
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Task Assist |
Task assist simplifies the creation and activation of lengthy and complicated tasks. |
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Destination |
A destination is a reference to a connection that points to an actual system in the landscape. You create and activate a destination to receive and persist data from the system. |
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Data set |
Data set is a generic but logical data reference consisting of a name, type, URL, and a logical destination name. It is an abstraction of the actual data or structures that reside in distributed stores. |
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Task |
Tasks are automatic operations that you can execute, control, and monitor based on certain user-defined conditions. The tool supports different task types. Depending on the task type, a task can contain one or more data sets (as both source and target), or can be a complex data pipeline. |
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Task Workflow |
A task workflow orchestrates multiple tasks and executes them in a given order. |
