Getting Started with SAP Data Quality Management, microservices

[RyanChamplin]

Update (March 2022):  This blog is no longer accurate for the current solution.  You can find all the latest information on this offering in this blog post.

 

In this blog we'll discuss how to get started with SAP Data Quality Management, microservices using an SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition account.

Get an SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition account

Go here:  Try SAP Cloud Platform

Select "Try it for Free" if you don't have an SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition account.
Fill out the registration information and you will be e-mailed your account information.

If you already have an SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition account then you can just login.

 

Enable Data Quality Services for your account

Login to your SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit that you received a URL to for your account.

Browse to "Services" in SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit.

Under the "Master Data" category you'll see a tile for "Data Quality Services"



Click on the tile and on the next screen you will see an "Enable" button.  Select that.

Once enabled you are ready to go.

3.  Review the Documentation

You will see a link on the service page where you enabled our service to the documentation.



Or you can directly access here:

Data Quality Management, microservices Documentation

Examples of calling the Service(s)

Postman

We have recently posted some scripts which can be used with the Postman Service utility (www.getpostman.com).

You can find these sample scripts and how to configure them for use with your SCP, developer edition account and our microservices here at the public SAP Github repository:

https://github.com/SAP/cloud-dqm-sample-payloads

NOTE:  Basic Authentication is ONLY supported on SCP, developer edition.
For productive use after purchasing the service either OAuth or Client Certificate Authentication must be used.

SAP Data Services:

If you are an SAP Data Services customer we have recently introduced a built-in transformation which integrates these microservices.  This is included in the recent release SAP Data Services 4.2 SP8 release.

Example Data Services Jobs (Blueprints) can be found here:
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/EIM/SAP+Data+Services+Blueprints

You can find more information in the official documentation here starting on page 754:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbods42/en/ds_42_reference_en.pdf

Limitations

When using this service on SCP, developer edition it is limited to 30 days of usage or 1000 transactions per country.  Tracking starts with the first transaction you make to the service.