CAF and Business Intelligence
Integration
CAF and BI integration enables extraction of CAF services data and loading it into a BI system.
Features
DataSources
● Defines DataSources by using application metadata
● Provides DataSource for each CAF Business Object Node to extract its instances.
● Provides DataSource for each relation between business object nodes to extract all existing relations between the business object node instances.
● Provides DataSource for each business object node with language dependent attributes to extract these attributes values.
● Provides DataSource for each Application Service BI Extractor method, enabling the user to implement its own custom extraction ot data.
More information: DataSource Use in CAF and SAP BI Integration.
Data Extraction
● Support selection parameters defined from BI during the extraction process.
● Extract data using generic extractor methods, JDBC or implement custom extractors in application services.
More information:Data Extraction in CAF and SAP BI Integration.
Implementation
CAF Connector
The CAF Connector implements standard UD connector interfaces, enabling its use from the BI side. The connector implements only the relational interfaces and supports only relational data representation. The extraction of data from BI gets through UD Connect Source System using the connector with the name SDK_CAF and type JDBC.
CAF Test Servlet
The CAF test servlet is used to perform functionality testing during CAF and SAP BI integration without actually using SAP BI. For example, you can retrieve a list of all datasources that CAF provides or extract data from those DataSources. To use the test servlet you should have assigned the user you log on with to the role SAP_CAF_DEVELOPER.
The Test Servlet URL is http://<host>:<port>/bwtest/CAFAdapterTest
Instructions on how to use the servlet are provided when you open the URL above.
More Information
Configuring Composite
Application Framework