Exporting Data

Exporting master data and variants data from SAP Asset Intelligence Network.

Overview

Exporting data as part of an offboarding strategy to terminate from SAP Asset Intelligence Network means accessing your SAP BTP account and collecting all the data that is stored within the scope of the tenant that is assigned to you during onboarding.

General Process
For exporting data, we recommend the following approach:

  • Identify the data

  • Set up a program that you can use to access service APIs of SAP Asset Intelligence Network

  • Call up the collective GET request of the corresponding service

  • 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 contents of the destination file with the original data stored in SAP Asset Intelligence Network and adjust them, if need be

Details

Affected Entities and Services

The data to be exported falls into three categories: master data and variants data.
Sequence

For the data export from SAP Asset Intelligence Network into a flat file, the sequence in which you access the different type of objects is not important. For the subsequent import of the exported data into a new environment, however, the opposite sequence applies. For the import, it is important to follow the sequence of object types as given in the above list. This is because the object types listed previously provide definitions that are referred to by object types that appear later in the lists. Depending on the conditions, a wrong import sequence might lead to import errors or prevent you from importing data at all.