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You can use the Operational Data Provisioning Framework (ODP) to transfer data from various SAP repositories to BW.

Operational Data Provisioning offers the following communication channels for data transfer:

  • Remote Function Call (RFC)

    You can access ABAP systems via RFC.

  • Web Service (SOAP via HTTP or HTTPS)

    The Web Service implementation can occur outside of ABAP.

The data in the source is available for extraction in the form of operational data providers. An operational data provider defines interfaces for transaction data and master data (attributes, texts, hierarchies). Once implemented for the repository in question, these interfaces make it possible to access data for replication to BW. For the SAP repositories, there are corresponding providers for the operational delta queues. The BW system that the data is transferred to subscribes to these delta queues. For sources that can deliver data changes, the ODP framework also supports delta procedures. Once an SAP repository has implemented the relevant interfaces of the ODP framework, it is available for data transfer with Operational Data Provisioning.

Process

  1. You create an ODP source system by connecting the SAP repository as the source of the data transfer to the BW system.

  2. You create a DataSource for an operational data provider belonging to the source.

Result

You can now load the data to the persistent staging area (PSA) in BW using an InfoPackage and then load it into an InfoProvider or load it directly into an InfoProvider using a data transfer process.

In the source system, you can monitor the data extraction and data replication in the monitor for operational delta queues.

More Information

Note the following information for various SAP repositories:

SAP Repository More Information

SAP HANA Database (that an ABAP system is running on)

More information: Notes about transferring data from SAP HANA using ODP

SAP System via SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server

More information: Transferring Data from SLT Using Operational Data Provisioning

SAP Business ByDesign

More information: Notes about transferring data from SAP Business ByDesign systems using ODP