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. Board Connector-architecture

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:

About this Online-Help

Introduction to Board Connector

Getting Started with Board Connector

Advanced Techniques

Server

Logging

Security

BAPI

BW Cube

BW Hierarchy

DeltaQ (deprecated)

ODP (Operational Data Provisioning)

OHS (Open Hub Services)

SAP Query

Report

Table

Table CDC

SAP Customizing