SharePoint BDC and SAP
SAP does an excellent job of capturing and processing transactions. Everyone wants reports based on data that resides in SAP. Disseminating that information through the Business Data Catalog and a SharePoint portal can make your business more agile, customer-friendly and profitable.
The Problem
BDC Meta Man makes it easy to use your data with the Business Data Catalog. The question is, how do you get at the data stored in SAP? Until recently, SAP data was only available through connectors that logged on to the SAP application server and invoked cumbersome RFC’s, BAPi’s or Extractors, all of which have to be developed in ABAP. The connector based systems also left developers with a bad choice: Settle for batch extraction and outdated data while preserving acceptable performance on the SAP side, or attempt real-time data extraction at the risk of degrading the production SAP system.
The Solution
The Simplement Data Liberator™ makes SAP data available in a real-time, continuously-updated SQL Server database platform, as regular relational tables. No RFC’s, no BAPi’s, no extractors, and no ABAP. 100% of your development is done outside of the SAP environment using the modern tools you already know. Because the Liberator doesn’t run any SAP code, it doesn’t put any demands on the SAP system. And because you already know how to use relational tables, the Liberator doesn’t put any additional demands on your or your developers.
Please take a minute to view the screen cast below to see it in action, the video is best viewed at full screen to see the real power of Simplement and BDC Meta Man
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