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SAP Commissions – Smart Data Integration[SDI] – Part 1
SAP HANA Smart Data Integration let you enhance, cleanse, and transform data to make it more accurate and useful. You can efficiently connect to any source to provision and cleanse data for loading into SAP HANA on-premise or in the cloud, and for supported systems, writing back to the original source.
Capabilities include:
- A simplified landscape; that is, one environment in which to provision and consume data
- Access to more data formats including an open framework for new data sources
- In-memory performance, which means increased speed and decreased latency
Feature area | Description |
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SAP HANA Smart Data Integration | Real-time, high-speed data provisioning, bulk data movement, and federation. Provides built-in adapters plus an SDK so you can build your own adapters.
Includes the following features and tools:
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Data Integration on SAP Commissions HANA using SDI
SAP Smart Data Integration (SDI) is packaged as part of SAP Commissions and can be used to integrate your on-premise systems with SAP Commissions on HANA.
Smart Data Integration (SDI) allows you to securely transfer critical business data to and from the Commissions application, enabling you to easily synchronize and share data within your organization.
Using SDI, you can transfer data pertaining to the business data objects that are defined in Commissions. You can transfer data to and from the following workspaces in Commissions:
- Orders and Transactions workspace for Results
- Participants, Positions, and Titles workspace for Organization
- Categories, Products, Customers, and Postal Codes workspace for Classification
- Accounts, Geography, CRM Opportunities, etc for T&Q objects
Watch Introduction to Smart Data Integration on SAP Commissions
Prerequisite
Understanding of data integration concepts, knowledge of SDI, Web IDE, HANA SQL and procedures is a prerequisite for implementing SDI with Commissions HANA.
Use this checklist to get started with the setup and configuration process. Make sure you have all the information handy before you proceed:
Item | URL | Notes |
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S-User ID |
Required to raise for any Support ticket. |
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Link to Download DP Agent |
https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloudintegration |
Data Integration downloads |
Tenant DB Name |
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Provided in provisioning email Required to connect to Tenant DB from WebIDE |
HANA HTTPs URL (SQL connectivity) |
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Provided in provisioning email Required to create the data provisioning agent |
Web IDE URL |
https://webide.<<region>>.calliduscloud.com |
Provided in provisioning email |
Web IDE credentials |
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Provided in provisioning email Required to import/export projects and create flowgraphs |
HANA DB credentials |
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Provided in provisioning email Required to access EXT Schema |
Data Provisioning Task Monitor |
https://<<servername>>-sdi.calliduscloud.com/sap/hana/im/dp/monitor/index.html?view=IMTaskMonitor |
Required to monitor information about replication tasks and transformation tasks |
Job Scheduler
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https://jobscheduler-dashboard.<<region>>.calliduscloud.com/index.html |
Provided in provisioning email Required to access Jobs Success and Failed |
Important to Know
SAP Commissions HANA Server (SDI Data Provisioning Server) hosted by SAP/Callidus Datacenter (To be treated as On-prem version)
Coming Next: Part 2 – SDI Architecture flow
References
The table below provides links to detailed information on the following topics:
Topic | Link |
SDI Product Availability Matrix |
https://support.sap.com/content/dam/launchpad/en_us/pam/pam-essentials/TIP/PAM_HANA_SDI_1_0.pdf https://support.sap.com/content/dam/launchpad/en_us/pam/pam-essentials/TIP/PAM_HANA_SDI_2_0.pdf |
SDI Product Support | https://support.sap.com/en/product/support-by-product/73554900100800000033/default-editorial.html |
HANA Academy Videos | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzo92owKnVwQ_preA3cxlQjn_v3W0Eh5 |
HANA SDI Documentation | https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/HANA_SMART_DATA_INTEGRATION |
Commissions SDI Documentation |
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_Commissions/271e5f8e84de4fada00d623e5095e77a/726eb3e87c231014a804993ce4041860.html?locale=en-US |
Ask a SDI Question |
https://answers.sap.com/tags/73554900100800000033 |
SDI Blogs |
https://blogs.sap.com/tags/73554900100800000033/ |
SAP Commissions – SDI ( Micro learning ) | https://microlearning.opensap.com/playlist/dedicated/173269331/1_5ze3hxol/1_pcp71u3l |
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