The Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework allows you to extract data from the InfoProviders in your source BW and BW/4 HANA systems.

Available InfoProvider types are dependent on your source BW and BW/4 HANA system.

InfoProviders Available in SAP BW∕4HANA: #

  • DataStore objects (advanced) (with delta extraction)
  • CompositeProvider - Object type HCPR (full extraction)
  • InfoObjects
    • Master data
    • Texts
    • Hierarchies
  • Query as InfoProvider

Additional InfoProviders Available in BW systems #

  • CompositeProvider - object type HCPR (full extraction)
  • InfoCubes (with delta extraction)
  • Semantically partitioned objects
  • HybridProviders
  • MultiProviders
  • InfoSets

Using BW InfoProviders #

Things that need to be considered when using BW InfoProviders:

  1. When searching for BW InfoProviders, make sure to select the correct context. ODP BW Search
  2. When the delta load is available for the source object in the SAP source system, the Delta Update option is available in the ODP component.
  3. Click [Load live preview] to preview the data without executing an extraction.