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SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By : Shomnikov
Book Image

SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By: Shomnikov

Overview of this book

Want to cost effectively deliver trusted information to all of your crucial business functions? SAP Data Services delivers one enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It boosts productivity with a single solution for data quality and data integration. SAP Data Services also enables you to move, improve, govern, and unlock big data. This book will lead you through the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently develop ETL processes. To begin with, you’ll learn to install, configure, and prepare the ETL development environment. You will get familiarized with the concepts of developing ETL processes with SAP Data Services. Starting from smallest unit of work- the data flow, the chapters will lead you to the highest organizational unit—the Data Services job, revealing the advanced techniques of ETL design. You will learn to import XML files by creating and implementing real-time jobs. It will then guide you through the ETL development patterns that enable the most effective performance when extracting, transforming, and loading data. You will also find out how to create validation functions and transforms. Finally, the book will show you the benefits of data quality management with the help of another SAP solution—Information Steward.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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11. Working with SAP Applications
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Index

Loading data into SAP ERP

We will not discuss the topic of configuring the SAP system to communicate with the Data Services environment as it would require another few chapters on the subject and, most importantly, it is not the purpose of this book. All this information can be found in detailed SAP documentation available at http://help.sap.com.

We presume that you have exactly the same Data Services and staging environments configured and created in the previous chapters of this book and have also installed and configured the SAP ERP system, which can communicate with the Data Services job server.

In this recipe, we will go through the steps of loading information into the SAP ERP system by using Data Services. In one of our preparation processes, we will be generating data records for insertion right in the dataflow, when usually, you have the data ready to be loaded in the staging area extracted from another system.

We will also review the main SAP transactions involved in the process...