System Landscape  

Purpose

You need at least one BW system for Content development in order to deliver SAP Business Content and develop your own Content and deliver it as customer Content. If you want to develop extractors and DataSources you also need an OLTP system for Content development. SAP recommends that you connect a Content test system to each Content development system. In the BW Content test system you check whether customer-specific Content can be activated. You deliver a consolidated status from the test system to the OLTP and BW systems, for example, to your customer’s central system, as the delivery transport.

A Content development system is an OLTP or BW system which is set as a Content system in its system settings.

An OLTP Content development system must have the lowest source system release of all the customer systems to which the customer wants to deliver Content.

You can also set up a user for whom the system behaves as a Content system by setting the appropriate parameters for this user.

For more information, see System Settings in OLTP Systems and System Settings in BW Systems.

The following graphic shows the system landscape described:

Do not transport out of the Content development system but out of the Content test system. Only transports that have been released exist in this system so unlike in the Content development system, the objects in this system are consistent.

To deliver Content, collect the Content requests in the Content test system and build one or more delivery transports from them. Merge the transport requests run in this system in the target request.  The programs required to do this are available in the Transport Organizer Tools (SE03).

For more information, see Transport Organizer, in particular Transport Organizer (Enhanced View).

The right-hand side of the graphic shows a normal customer system landscape (consisting of three levels) to which SAP BW customers deliver customer Content. A system landscape of this type consists of one OLTP and one BW system as the development, integration (or consolidation), and productive systems. You can develop the landscape further according to the needs of the individual customer, for example, by connecting a separate training system parallel to the production system.