SAP Business Warehouse (BW) is a data warehouse product of SAP that is based on the SAP NetWeaver ABAP environment. SAP BW can transform and consolidate business information from any source system for reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data. This data is accessible through built-in reporting, business intelligence and analytics tools as well as third-party software.
Objects extracted
The SAP BW catalog source extracts metadata from the following assets in an SAP BW source system:
•Info Area
•Data Source
•Info Objects
•Info Object Catalog
•Source System
•Info Source
•Characteristics
•Key Figures
•Dimension
•Navigational Attributes
•InfoSet
•DataStore Object (DSO)
•InfoCube
•Multi Provider
•Transformation
•Transformation Rule
•Query
•Query Element or Field
•Workbook
•Advanced DSO
•Composite Provider
•DTP
•InfoObject as InfoProvider
•CDS View
The catalog source job extracts only CDS views that have queries.
•Open Hub Destination
Data profiling for SAP BW objects
Configure data profiling to run profiles on the metadata extracted from an SAP BW source system. You can view the profiling statistics in Data Governance and Catalog.
You can run data profiles on the following SAP BW objects:
•InfoCube
•MultiProvider
•DataStore Object (DSO)
Sampling type
You can run data profiles on all rows in the metadata extracted from SAP BW source systems.
Data Lineage
The following lineage data is available for SAP BW assets:
•Data set level
•Data element level
For more information about data lineage, see Data Lineage in the Working With Assets help.