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:
•Advanced DSO
•Aggregation Level
•Characteristics
•Composite Provider
•Data Source
•DTP
•Info Area
•Info Objects
•InfoObject as InfoProvider
•Info Source
•Key Figures
•Navigational Attributes
•Open Hub Destination
•Open ODS View
•Source System
•Transformation
•Transformation Rule
•Query
•Query Element or Field
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.