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Introduction to SAP SuccessFactors catalog sources

You can use Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from a source system.
A source system is any system that contains data or metadata. For example, SAP SuccessFactors is a source system from which you can extract metadata through an SAP SuccessFactors catalog source with Metadata Command Center. A catalog source is an object that represents and contains metadata from the source system.
Before you extract metadata from a source system, you first create and register a catalog source that represents the source system. Then you configure capabilities for the catalog source. A capability is a task that Metadata Command Center can perform, such as metadata extraction, lineage discovery, data profiling, data classification, or glossary association.
When Metadata Command Center extracts metadata, Data Governance and Catalog displays the extracted metadata and its attributes as technical assets. You can then perform tasks such as analyzing the assets, viewing relationships, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
The following table describes the capabilities of the catalog source:
Capability
Description
Data Profiling and Quality
  • - Data Profiling. Assesses source metadata and analyzes the collected statistics to discover content and structure, such as value distribution, patterns, and data types.
  • - Data Quality. Measures the reliability of the data and enables data usage.

Extraction and view process

To extract metadata from a source system, configure the catalog source and run the extraction job in Metadata Command Center. Then view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
The following image shows the process to extract metadata from SAP SuccessFactors:
The image shows the process of metadata extraction from an SAP SuccessFactors source system that begins with prerequisites verification, continues with the creation of the catalog source, and ends with viewing the results.
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from SAP SuccessFactors:
  1. 1Register a catalog source. Create a catalog source object, select SAP SuccessFactors, and then select and test the connection.
  2. 2Configure the catalog source. Specify the runtime environment and configure parameters for metadata extraction. Optionally, add filters to include or exclude source system assets from metadata extraction. You can also configure other capabilities such as data profiling and quality, data classification, or glossary association.
  3. 3Optionally, associate stakeholders. Associate users with technical assets, giving the users permission to perform actions determined by their roles.
  4. 4Run or schedule the catalog source job.
After you run the catalog source job, you view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.

About the SAP SuccessFactors catalog source

You can use the SAP SuccessFactors catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP SuccessFactors source system.
SAP SuccessFactors is a cloud-based software for human capital management (HCM).

Extracted metadata

You can use the SAP SuccessFactors catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP SuccessFactors source system.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from an SAP SuccessFactors source system:
An SAP SuccessFactors catalog source can only extract metadata from ODATA API entities represented as tables.