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Gordon Witzel
Gordon Witzel

Data Integration with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0

Dear friends of SAP BW/4HANA,

I’m working for SAP since more than 12 years and as a member of the BW product management team I received a lot of questions from customers regarding new functionalities for integarting data into SAP BW/4HANA.

SAP BW/4HANA provides a multitude of innovations in various areas. One of the focus areas are extended and simplified ways to integrate non-ABAP – typically non-SAP – data structures as well as ABAP – SAP Systems – data structures into SAP BW.

Loading and persisting data from on-premise sources as well as Cloud Applications is and will be one of the key functionalities of an Enterprise Datawarehouse (EDW).

Loading and persisting data from Cloud Applications (e.g. SuccessFactors) in an SAP BW/4HANA data warehouse is possible in many ways.

To enable such scenarios, SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 provides new capabilities in the DataStore Objects to push data in the inbound table of the DataStore Object using a tool such as Data Services or via SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) by PUSH.

These API for pushing data to DataStore objects is not released for third-party tools.

This property can be used for all types of standard DataStore object and staging DataStore object, but not together with Inventory enabled or Planning enabled DataStore Objects.

It is possible to use RFC or http data to load data into the DataStore object. There are two possible procedures:

  • Sending data without a request: For every call, a new internal request is opened
  • Sending data with a request: The following sequence is used to do this: Open Request, n times Send Data (with request and package), Close Request

SAP Cloud Platform Integration and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration equal or higher SAP NetWeaver 7.50 Process Integration SP15 (see SAP Note 2757524) can use this http (REST) interface for data integration to SAP BW/4HANA 2.0.

Please find more information in the documentation DataStore Object with Write Interface, in the What’s new with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 (page 24) and in the SAP BW/4HANA Community.

 

This blog post describes the options SAP provides with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 to push data into a write interface enabled DataStore Object.

The following options are described in detail in independent blogs posts:

  • SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI)
  • Process Integration (PI)
  • DataHub