SAP Business Warehouse (SAP 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
Metadata Command Center extracts the following objects from an SAP BW source system:
•InfoArea
•Data Source
•InfoObject
•InfoObject Catalog
•Source System
•InfoSource
•Characteristic
•Key Figure
•Dimension
•Navigational Attribute
•InfoSet
•DataStore Object (DSO)
•InfoCube
•MultiProvider
•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
Note:
If an incremental metadata extraction job includes a view, it extracts the corresponding tables even if the tables were extracted in previous runs.
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 the Asset Discovery help.