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There a couple of supported plugins, developed by our partner IT-Novum
- SAP ERP Table Input
- SAP BW/ERP RFC Executor
- SAP BW DSO Input
- SAP BW Infocube Input
For more details see https://it-novum.com/en/big-data-analytics/pentaho-sap-connector/
Further options for loading data from SAP including SAP ECC (ERP), SAP BW (SAP BI), SAP CRM, HANA
Most users know the file based option to create a text file (prepared by ABAP programms) and load this data with the CSV Input step, but there are other ways:
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- You can use the Webservices Lookup step and load queries or infoproviders via XML for Analysis. This does not work out-of-the-box and needs special customizing and writing special transformations, SAP BI may be needed. The OLAP Input step simplifies this and was tested successfully.
- Another option is using Open Hub Service within a SAP BI environment: "BI objects such as InfoCubes, DataStore objects, or InfoObjects (attributes or texts) can function as open hub data sources. You can select database tables or flat files as open hub destinations. Both a full and a delta mode are also available as the extraction mode."
- Further information about accessing SAP CRM (e.g. the data model) can be found over here: http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CRM/CRM+Developer%27s+Knowledge+Corner
- In general SAP recommends using Enterprise Services aka web services to access the functionality remotely: http://esworkplace.sap.com/
- You may access the SAP tables direct in the database, but there are security considerations and there may be unknown side effects not going via the application level.
- The SAP HANA database has been added to the list of available database connections in Pentaho PDI 5.4. See the JDBC Driver Reference and Set Up a Database Connection topics in the Pentaho Help site for more detailed information. Pentaho PDI 6.0 added support for the SAP Hana Bulk Loader.
- It's also possible to connect via a transformation step and access the application level connecting to SAP ECC (ERP) data. At this time there are three steps available with similar functionality:
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SAP Connector / Step
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SAP Input
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Pentaho/SAP Connector
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License
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Open Source
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TBD
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Developed/supported by
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Aschauer EDV GmbH
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it-novum GmbH
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Distribution
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Supported PDI Versions
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7.x, 8.x
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7.x, 8.x
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Connection Method
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RFC via SAP JCo
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RFC via SAP JCo
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Table Access
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via RFC_READ_TABLE
or customized RFC/BAPI
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via RFC_READ_TABLE
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Partial table load (filter)
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yes
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yes
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Chunk loading of big tables
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via customization
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via customization
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Unlimited record length
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via customization
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via customization
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Data type support for negative packed, floating points and raw hex fields
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no
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yes
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Search for tables/fields in the user interface (data dictionary)
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no (Table DD02L could be selected)
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yes
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Lookup / join functionality
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via customization
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via customization
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Call other RFCs (also for calling functions to read, look-up and write back)
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yes
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yes
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Call BAPIs (also for calling business functions to read, look-up and write back)
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yes
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yes
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- And please sees the supported plugins by our partner IT-Novum (section above) for loading data from SAP ERP, DSO, Infocube and others.
Transferring data to SAP BW (SAP BI)
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