Offboarding

Data handling prior to termination of SAP Asset Intelligence Network. The data of SAP Asset Intelligence Network is split across Asset Central Foundation and SAP Asset Intelligence Network.

Introduction

In this chapter, you can learn how to proceed in a scenario where you terminate the SAP Asset Intelligence Network contract. In most scenario's, you might want to keep all the data and virtual things defined and continue to use them in the new environment. For this, you should follow the instructions below:

Overview

Currently, downloading the data from SAP Asset Intelligence Network applications is possible only through API calls.

The tasks involved in data offboarding are described, as below:

Identify the data
Set up a program that you can use to access the service APIs.

Note

If the number of objects that you want to export and delete from SAP Asset Intelligence Network environment is less, you can use a tool or a developmenet environment to send direct calls to the service APIs.
Call up the collective GET request of the corresponding service (for example, the service methods found in the API reference documentation titled Viewing Items of Equipment Based on the Filter
Loop over the result set:
- For each element of the result set, write the element data to a destination file at the desired location
- Compare the content of the destination file with the original data stored in SAP Asset Intelligence Network and adjust them, if need be
- For each element of the result set, the offboarding team will perform the DELETE task