Capturing Data with The Sap Extractor
The SAP Extractor is
a program in SAP ERP that can be customized or taken from a standardized Data
Source. Both options describe a delta load process or various types of full
load. The SAP BW can remotely access the various data transfer facets of the SAP Extractor and is used to capture and prepare data via an extract structure
that is transferable to the Business Warehouse (BW) of SAP.
SAP data extraction
with the SAP Extractor is of three types.
The first is Content
Extraction where the Extractor is used to extract BW content, FI, HR, CO, SAP CRM, and LO cockpit. Second
is the Customer-Generated
Extraction where the SAP BW Extractor is used for LIS, FI-SL, and CO-PA. The third is Generic
Extractionbased on DB View, Infoset, and Function Modules. The SAP Extractor was developed mainly to cater to the
applications of the SAP Business Warehouse and the type of extraction activity
used by organizations depends on their specific requirements.
The SAP ECC system
cannot be used for any form of analysis but only for operational and
transactional purposes. Therefore, for ECC data analysis, the SAP Extractor has
to first extract data from the SAP ECC system to be moved to the SAP Business
Warehouse system. Thus, the SAP Extractor acts as a link between the CC
system and the BW. The BW system, at any time, may be enabled to carry out
analytics by connecting to the Business Intelligence (BI) system.
The process of data
extraction with the SAP Extractor is initiated by application-specific
extractors that are hard-coded for the Data Source to be delivered along with
the BI Content for the BW.
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