Loading data with SAP Direct Extractor
DXC (Direct Extractor) is a batch-driven data acquisition technique, and a form of extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data though its transformation capabilities are limited to user exit for extraction.
The main idea behind DXC is to use existing data models, thereby lowering the Total cost of Ownership (TCO).
Some of the salient features of DXC are:
- Leverage pre-existing foundational data models of SAP Business Suite
- Significantly reduces the complexity of data modeling tasks in SAP HANA
- Reduces the timelines for SAP HANA implementation projects
- Provides semantically rich data from SAP Business Suite to SAP HANA
- Many of the extractors have already got built in application logic to give the data the appropriate contextual meaning
- Reuses an existing proprietary extraction, transformation, and loading mechanism
- It is built into SAP Business Suite systems over a simple HTTP(s) connection to SAP HANA
- No additional server or application is needed in the...
