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What Is SAP Data Services?
SAP Data Services is an enterprise solution that offers data integration, profiling, quality, and text processing capabilities. It was formerly called SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.
SAP Data Services enables users to integrate, transform, and load data. SAP Data Services is a comprehensive extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool. It supports loading of structured and unstructured data from SAP and non-SAP data sources into any SAP HANA application.
SAP Data Services combines the ability to execute data integration and ensure data quality and data cleansing.
Key Benefits and Capabilities of SAP Data Services
What Is SAP Data Services?
SAP Data Services is an enterprise solution that offers data integration, profiling, quality, and text processing capabilities. It was formerly called SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.
SAP Data Services enables users to integrate, transform, and load data. SAP Data Services is a comprehensive extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool. It supports loading of structured and unstructured data from SAP and non-SAP data sources into any SAP HANA application.
SAP Data Services combines the ability to execute data integration and ensure data quality and data cleansing.
Key Benefits and Capabilities of SAP Data Services
SAP Data Services allows organizations to achieve a complete view of their information, standardize and match data to reduce duplicates and improve decision-making and operational efficiency, and integrate operational, analytical, machine-generated, and geographic data.
Key capabilities of SAP Data Services include:
- Universal data access
- Data quality dashboards
- Native-text data processing
- Simplified data governance
- Intuitive business user interfaces
- High performance scalability
Who Uses SAP Data Services?
According to SAPinsider contributor Michael Vavlitis, several types of users can leverage SAP Data Services, including source system experts, data analysts, developers, and ETL operation managers/data architects.
The core responsibilities of these roles can be summarized as follows:
- Source system experts – Provide information, metadata about source system and data content, as well as what tables and views to connect through using SAP Data Services
- Data analysts – Translate business requirements into functional requirements and required source data needs. Validate data test results, transformations, and data-cleansing activities.
- SAP Data Services developers – Create technical specs based on input from the data analysts. Responsible for developing all objects, schedules, and test procedures.
- ETL operations managers or data architects – Monitor daily processing of ETL jobs, error logs, manual fixes, connectivity, and security. Upgrade and apply SPs and SAP Notes to maintain the overall application. Track key performance indicators (KPIs) for service level agreements (SLAs), system availability, and overall performance. Responsible for maintaining development standards, standard operating procedures (SOPs), naming conventions, data dictionary, structured walkthroughs, and approvals. Act as the overall data architect for the SAP Data Services and related systems.
In 2019 Nancy Ochs explained during an SAPinsider event how CSL Plasma, a leader in plasma collection, enabled analytics advancements. The company divided its integrated SAP Data Services from the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform to provide additional features and capabilities in data management and gain the ability to apply updates to the analytics platform and enterprise information management components independently. View the event presentation slides.
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Protecting Sensitive Data Stored in Legacy Databases During Cloud MigrationMar 26, 2024 — In today’s globalized economy, businesses are experiencing the rapid expansion of data while also trying to stay on top of the changes in data protection legislation. Especially in the process of digital transformation and migration to SAP S/4HANA, maintenance of legacy databases can become costly and complicate overall processes by increasing risks of exposure of […]
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Leveraging Data Services to Improve Your ECC to SAP S/4HANA MigrationJan 20, 2021 — A migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA can be complicated, and data services jobs can add another level of complexity. Organizations must devote time and resources to ensuring that the migration is correctly working, as well as ensuring that old codes are migrated to new ones with correct information. How can organizations set up and use data services to make their SAP S/4HANA migration easier? Attendees of this session will emerge able to:
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Accurate and Affordable Data Cleansing in the CloudSep 12, 2018 —
High quality and trusted data is the differentiation between a company that is surviving in the digital age and one that is thriving. To help customers enhance data management within their own companies, SAP has brought it's on-premise data quality expertise to the cloud. Hear how SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data, helps businesses with address parsing, standardization, validation, cleansing, and enrichment functionality for global address data through a pay-per-use license model.
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SAP Data Services: How to Extract, Transform, and Load Data into SAP HANAJun 12, 2017 —
Examine and compare the classic SAP Data Services approach for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) processes to the functionality that is native to SAP HANA to determine optimal integration.
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Finding the Right Platforms for SAP Data Services and SAP BusinessObjectsMay 31, 2017 — Nancy Ochs, Senior Application Developer at CSL Plasma, shares why her company is separating SAP Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects onto two separate platforms and how it’s creating value from the project. Topics covered include: CSL Plasma’s strategy for separating the two systems The timing and change management considerations CSL Plasma has to make for this […]
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