BW Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)

 ? Introduction  In 2018 I’ve frequently witnessed a new kid in the Enterprise IT town: Apache Kafka From my personal statistic the frequency of customer architectures considering Kafka as a new architecture component is similar to the... Read More »

It has been a serious issue to use 2LIS* delta extractors for a long time in SAP BW.  To fill a setup table was a nightmare for many consultants. SAP provided 2 methods for delta extraction via ABAP CDS. In this blog I’ll explain how to use these... Read More »

SAP BW Customers – are you ready for BW/4HANA!! As of today, there is 16,000 SAP customers using the BW solution – are you one of these customers?!   If you are, you need to be aware of the following points: BW/4HANA: The BW/4HANA is... Read More »

There was still confusion around HOW TO EXTRACT SAP CAR – POSDTA to BW around the classic POSDM.   SAP extractor(also called BW data source, or BW extractor) are released to ODP by SAP Note 2232584 – Release of SAP extractors for... Read More »

This article and the follow-on article (part 2) will cover the conversion (In Place) of a standard BW dataflow to a BW/4HANA compliant data flow using SAP’s transfer toolbox (transaction RSB4HTRF) for the Explore / Realization Phase for the... Read More »

Objective : In this article we will be covering an overview of the ODP data-sources along with the extraction performance improvements and benefits of ODP.   Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) provides a technical infrastructure that we... Read More »

This is a follow-on from the creation of an ODP ECC Source System article. In this article I’ll be covering an overview of the ODP datasources along with the extraction performance improvements and benefits of ODP.   Operational Data... Read More »

Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) provides a technical infrastructure to support data extraction and replication. For example, used to connect an SAP ECC system as the source system to a BW system. Communication is performed using remote function... Read More »

Its very common for SAP consultants (BW consultants especially) to be stymied by the issue with delta extraction. Some of the concerns we commonly share are: No timestamp, no date or numeric pointer available. The extractor logic itself is so... Read More »

There has been a shift in the way business applications are developed with the availability of SAP HANA. Idea is to move logic (code) as much as possible to the Database so as to get performance benefits. To simplify this code push down to database,... Read More »