Introduction
The InfoSphere® Information Server Pack for SAP BW enable users to schedule and run the ETL jobs. It has a friendly user interface to design ETL jobs and to set up the data operations to be performed on SAP BI systems.
The Pack includes the following major components:
- BW Load Stage: Loads data from non-SAP data sources to an SAP BI system. BW Load Stage is an SAP-certified, data-loading integration solution implemented using the SAP Staging BAPI interface.
- BW Extract Stage: Extracts data from an SAP BI system. It is an SAP-certified, data-extraction integration solution based on the SAP Open Hub Service interface.
- BW RFC Server: Implements various functions that are invoked by an SAP BI system. It accepts the SAP BI initiated data-loading or data-extraction requests and triggers the DataStage jobs to execute the corresponding data operations.
- BW RFC Manager: Manages the BW RFC Server processes. It creates one BW RFC Server process per source system. It also provides the functions to start or stop BW RFC Server processes. A source system represents a logical or physical system that is external to an SAP BI system. A source system provides source data to an SAP BI system or accepts extracted data from an SAP BI system.
For current best practices, including the setup on the SAP side for specific SAP versions see White Paper 1073570.