Extracting Data from the BW System

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

  • with a database table as the destination

  • with a file as the destination

  • with SAP Data Services and Third-Party Tools as Destinations

• 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