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 S/4HANA Cloud is a source system from which you can extract metadata through an SAP S/4HANA Cloud 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, 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 lineage, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
Preview Notice: Effective in the August 2024 release, the SAP S/4HANA Cloud catalog source is available for preview. Preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
The following table describes the capabilities of the catalog source:
Capability
Description
Incremental metadata extraction
An incremental metadata extraction extracts only the changed and new objects since the last catalog source job run. Incremental metadata extraction doesn’t remove deleted objects from the catalog and doesn’t extract metadata of code-based objects if applicable.
Data Classification
Data classification is the process of identifying and organizing data into relevant categories based on the functional meaning of the data. Classifying data can help your organization manage risks, compliance, and data security.
Glossary Association
You can associate terms that are in the glossary with technical assets to provide user-friendly business names to technical assets. Glossary Association automatically associates glossary terms with technical assets or recommends glossary terms that you can manually associate with technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog.
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 S/4HANA Cloud:
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from SAP S/4HANA Cloud:
1Register a catalog source. Create a catalog source object, select SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and specify values for connection properties.
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.
3Optionally, associate stakeholders. Associate users with technical assets, giving the users permission to perform actions determined by their roles.
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 S/4HANA Cloud catalog source
You can use the SAP S/4HANA Cloud catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition source.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of the SAP S/4HANA ERP source system. It runs on the SAP S/4HANA in-memory database and provides a single place to access, process, and store enterprise data in real time. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud catalog source connects to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition sources.
Extracted metadata
You can use the SAP S/4HANA Cloud catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition source system.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition source system:
