Data Integration with SAP R/3 and

Business Information Warehouse

Track, Understand, and Manage your Business Using Data Stored in SAP
Many organizations have implemented SAP R/3 and SAP BW to meet their enterprise
software needs, as well as to collaborate with customers, suppliers, and partners.
Nearly all of these organizations have additional packaged enterprise applications,
databases, and legacy systems. They face the challenge of integrating the data from
these systems across their enterprise, as well as working with the broad range of
systems used by their trading partners. The complexity and resource intensiveness of
integrating these systems is often underestimated and can result in escalating IT costs.

Whether you are extracting SAP R/3 data for operational reporting, or integrating SAP
R/3 data into SAP BW or an existing data warehouse for enterprise business
intelligence, Business Objects offers you the widest possible range of alternatives.
Business Objects Data Integrator gives you the flexibility of a fully functional,
enterprise-class data integration platform, while BusinessObjects Rapid Marts
provide you with packaged solutions specifically built for SAP R/3.

Data Integrator is the leading third-party platform for extracting data from SAP R/3,
then transforming and loading it into a data warehouse or data mart. Data
Integrator extracts data through the SAP R/3 application layer, making it possible to
extract all types of data from SAP R/3, including metadata and information stored in
pool and cluster tables.

Powerful Data Management Architecture
Data Integrator is certified to load SAP BW and can augment your SAP R/3 data with
information from your other applications, databases, or legacy systems. Data Integrator
allows you to:

Manage the bi-directional flow of information in both real-time and batch
between SAP R/3 and other enterprise software (e.g., Oracle Applications,
PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards OneWorld, Siebel, home-grown applications, and
legacy systems) within a single environment.
Deploy intelligent data brokering capabilities to selectively source your data in
real time or batch based on configurable business rules.
Route data requests to ensure rapid response times and to minimize impact on
your transactional systems.
Use data caching to map, transform, and enrich data in real-time without the
need to customize your existing application interfaces or systems.
Maintain 24/7 availability of your corporate data, even when systems are
offline.




Data Integrator
supports the widest
array of SAP R/3
interfaces

SAP R/3 3.1, 4.0,
4.6, and 4.7
(Enterprise)
SAP BW 2.0, 2.1
and 3.0
ABAP
(optimized for
specific R/3
versions)
BAPI and RFC
IDoc file and
message sources
and targets
(inbound,
outbound, and
with high-speed
parallel
processing)
Transparent,
cluster, and
pooled tables
Hierarchies
R/3 functions



Data Integration with SAP R/3 and BW
An Efficient and Easy to Use Development Environment
Data extracted from SAP R/3 can be transformed and dynamically joined with non-SAP data in a high-
performance, parallel-pipelined engine, making it easy to build data warehousing solutions that scale to the
enterprise. Data Integrator has an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface that dramatically increases the
productivity of your data warehouse development staff, while drastically reducing costs to enhance and
maintain your data warehouse.

Data Integrator provides a single infrastructure to manage the flow of data to and from SAP R/3. Automatically
generating optimized ABAP for batch extraction, Data Integrator also eliminates the need for custom coding and
allows you to interface in real time with BAPIs and inbound and outbound IDocs. Through its unique caching
capabilities, Data Integrator enriches data and reduces the need to customize IDocs.




Data Integrator provides a user interface that simplifies even the most complex business logic


Data Integrator provides a drag-and-drop design environment that allows users to easily manage data
interactions across all SAP interfaces without programming. Data Integrator:

Creates and manages ABAP for bulk data extraction
Reads SAP metadata from the SAP R/3 data dictionary to show detailed source data from within the
development environment
Provides a search function to find R/3 objects from the Data Integrator Designer environment
Generates optimized ABAP code for the different versions of SAP R/3, making system upgrades easy
Reads and seamlessly loads BW metadata
Extracts from BW InfoCubes
Calls BAPIs in real time
Reads and enriches IDocs with custom data in real time
Updates data warehouses and marts in real time







Data Integration with SAP R/3 and BW

A Flexible Platform for SAP BW
Data Integrator accelerates the implementation of SAP BW and simplifies ongoing enhancements. Data
Integrator is certified by SAP for loading SAP BW and is the only solution on the market that:

Integrates non-SAP data and SAP R/3 data with one tool and a single, easy-to-use graphical
user interface
Intelligently brokers information requests using business rules to access cached SAP BW data or
directly access SAP BW data for real-time applications such as commerce servers
Easily loads SAP BW with any SAP R/3 data that is not contained in the standard BW
extractors, which may include detailed financial information, custom SAP R/3 tables, or data
from industry specific modules
Extends SAP BW without users having to write ABAP
Accesses SAP BW metadata for SAP R/3 and BW
Lets the user navigate through BW ODS, and InfoCube metadata and import objects from an
InfoArea or InfoCube (identified as fact, dimension, etc.) for extraction into another data
warehouse or mart.

Data Integrator can intelligently route data between data warehouses and corporate applications.


Real-time Integration Scenarios
The flexibility of Data Integrator and its rich SAP BW integration supports almost any scenario for
integrating SAP BW into your overall information architecture. Data Integrator can:

Complement the business extractors provided with SAP BW and leverage the productivity
efficiencies of the Data Integrator graphical user interface to maintain, enhance, and generate
new ABAP programs that load SAP R/3 data into SAP BW
Load batch or real-time data into SAP BW from legacy systems, best-of-breed applications, SAP
systems, and external sources
Extract batch or real-time data from SAP R/3, SAP BW, and analytic applications into another
data mart, data warehouse, or other applications
Broker requests for information and intelligently route them to the most appropriate source
Import SAP R/3 and SAP BW metadata

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Data Integration with SAP R/3 and BW
Rapid BI Deployment for SAP R/3
When you have the requirement to rapidly implement a data mart from one SAP R/3 module, consider
BusinessObjects Rapid Marts for the fastest time to implementation. Rapid Marts deliver a set of
packaged data marts that are optimized for analysis. They provide prebuilt data flows, business logic,
and schema that understand the SAP R/3 metadata, can interpret hierarchies and difficult data
structures such as pool and cluster tables, and can be rapidly deployed and extended. Rapid Marts help
accelerate project rollouts by containing the critical data flows needed across all areas of your business,
including sales and marketing, finance and operations, inventory and purchasing, and manufacturing
and distribution.

BusinessObjects Rapid Marts available for SAP R/3 include:

Profitability
Cost Center
HR
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Sales Analysis
Customer Order
CRM Integration (with Siebel)
Inventory Analysis
Purchasing Analysis
Strategic Sourcing (with i2)
Plant Maintenance
Inventory Analysis



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