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Object documentation 3.x InfoSource  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Definition

3.x InfoSources specify the set of all data available for a business transaction or a type of business transaction (for example, cost center accounting).

3.x InfoSources are sets of logically-related information, summarized into a single unit. They serve to stage consolidated data that can be updated into additional InfoProviders. 3. x InfoSources can contain either transaction data or master data (attributes, texts, and hierarchies).

They are always sets of logically-related InfoObjects that are available in the form of a communication structure.

Note

A new type of InfoSource is available as of SAP NetWeaver 7.0. You can continue to create and use 3.x InfoSources, however we recommend that you use the new InfoSource concept with the new transformation concept.

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Use

In the BI system, a DataSource is assigned to an InfoSource. If fields that logically belong together exist in different source systems, they can be grouped together in a single InfoSource in the BI system by assigning multiple DataSources to one InfoSource.

In transfer rule maintenance, individual DataSource fields are assigned to the corresponding InfoObject of the InfoSource. Here you can also specify how the data of a DataSource is transferred to the InfoSource. The uploaded data is transformed using transfer rules. An extensive library of transformation functions that contain business logic can be used here to clean up data and allow it to be analyzed. The rules can be applied simply, without coding, by using formulas.

The transfer structure is used to transfer data into the BI system. The data is transferred 1:1 from the transfer structure of the source system into the transfer structure of the BI system.

Integration

If logically-related fields exist in different source systems, they can be grouped together into a single InfoSource in the BI system. The source system release is not important here.

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If you have an InfoSource with flexible update, you use update rules to update data from the communication structure of the InfoSource into further InfoProviders. InfoSources with direct update allow master data to be written to the master data tables directly (without update rules).

InfoSources are listed under an application component in the InfoSource tree of the Data Warehousing Workbench.

 

 

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