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About the SAP BW/4HANA catalog source

You can use the SAP BW/4HANA catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP BW/4HANA source system.
SAP BW/4HANA is an enterprise data warehouse platform that captures, stores, and consolidates enterprise data.

Extracted metadata

You can extract specific metadata from an SAP BW/4HANA source system with an SAP BW/4HANA catalog source.
The SAP BW/4HANA catalog source extracts metadata from the following assets in SAP BW/4HANA source systems:
You can extract metadata from SAP BW/4HANA Cloud private edition. This includes an SAP BW/4HANA application hosted in a private cloud environment under a RISE with SAP subscription.
Note:
If the virtual machines are provisioned in different subnets, ensure that the necessary ports are open to allow two-way communication between the virtual machines.

Compatible connectors

Before you configure an SAP BW/4HANA catalog source, you must connect to the SAP BW/4HANA source system.
Use the SAP BW connector to connect to the SAP BW/4HANA source system.
For information about configuring a connection, see Connections.