Welcome to the Online Help of the Board Connector.
The Board Connector is a SAP Connector that makes various SAP objects available in the Board Server in pull mode.
Available Components #
The following overview shows, which components are available to extract data from SAP systems.
Extraction Types #
Board Connector offers a set of nine extraction types to cover a range of demands of SAP data extraction.
- BAPI accesses BAPIs and RFC function modules.
- BW Cube extracts data from SAP BW InfoCubes and BEx Queries.
- BW Hierarchy extracts Hierarchies from an SAP BW / BI system.
- DeltaQ extracts DataSources (OLTP) and extractors from ERP and ECC systems.
- ODP extracts data via the SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework.
- Open Hub Services (OHS) extracts InfoSpokes and OHS destinations.
- Query extracts ERP queries. Note: not BEx queries supplied by BW Cube.
- Report extracts ABAP Reports.
- Table extracts data from SAP tables and views; allows joining several tables on the SAP side.
Extraction Type | ERP / ECC | BW |
---|---|---|
BAPI | X | X |
BW Cube | X | |
DeltaQ | X | X |
BW Hierarchy | X | |
ODP | X | X |
OHS | X | |
Query | X | |
Report | X | |
Table | X | X |
Note: Further scenarios and combinations are possible.
More information on functions of Board Connector is provided in the following sections:
Introduction to Board Connector
Getting Started with Board Connector