The Working and Functioning of the SAP Extractor

The SAP Extractoris a data management feature of SAP, known as the BW Extractor in the past. It is used to extract SAP data from source systems for storing in downstream data warehouses. The objective of the SAP Extractor is to extract SAP data for feeding SAP BW applications. Moreover, if an SAP client is not using the BW, this option can still be used for integrating data with an SAP Extractor.


Once data is extracted with the SAP Extractor, it can be transformed, processed, and combined to help in real-time analytics. This SAP Data can queryData Services, resulting in a quick response depending on a pre-defined workflow as well as batch processing. Since one of the main functions of the software application SAP Data Services is to integrate and transform data, users can develop and execute workflows to extract SAP data from different sources.

The SAP Extractor is a program in SAP ERP that can be triggered to extract SAP data for transferring to BW. It can be either a customized DataSource providing details of full load delta processes of various types or a standard DataSource. The SAP BW remotely controls the transfer component of the program.

It is necessary to first define the load process with an InfoPackage in the scheduler before using the SAP Extractor to extract SAP data and transfer it to the input layer of the SAP Business Warehouse. The data load process that is one of the prerequisites to extract SAP data can be quickly initiated by a request IDoc to the source system when the InfoPackage is implemented with process chains that are used for executions.  

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