What is A SAP Extractor Used For

The SAP Extractor is a data management feature of SAP used to recover volumes of data in SAP source systems. This data can then be stored in downstream data warehouses or business intelligence systems. SAP customers who do not use BW can use the SAP Extractor to integrate with SAP BW applications.


The SAP Extractoris a program in SAP ERP used to prepare and capture data through an extract structure for transferring to BW. It can be either a delta load process of different types, a standard DataSource, or a customized DataSourcethat details a full load. The SAP Extractor also populates the delta queue with new and changed records when the extractor is a delta type after which the data transfer remote call transfers the data to SAP BW.

When you define the load process with an InfoPackage in the scheduler, it is possible to extract data from SAP and transfer it to the input layer of the SAP Business Warehouse also called the Persistent Staging Area (PSA). A request IDoc to the source system triggers the data load process when the InfoPackage is executed with process chains being used for it.

There are three forms of an SAP Extractor

·        Content Extractors (Application Specific) that are used to extract BW content, FI, HR, CO, SAP CRM, LO cockpit

·        Customer-Generated Extractors (Application Specific) that are used for LIS, FI-SL, CO-PA

·        Generic Extractors (Cross Application) that are based on DB View, Infoset, Function Modules

The SAP Extractor can be used to extract various types of data such as master data attributes or texts, transaction data from transparent tables, database views, or SAP query functional areas. 

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