Top 5 Reasons to Use Business Objects Data Services in Your SAP Landscape

If you have not heard of SAP Business Objects Data Services, previously known as Business Objects Data Integrator, I suggest you take a quick look at this Wiki link. Basically it is an extractor tools that allows a lot of flexibility in your Business Intelligence setup.

1. Multiple Datasource & Data Target Support

SAP Business Objects Data Services supports most of the enterprise data source - Oracle, MS Sql, MS Access, My SQL, and much much more. But more importantly, it now supports HANA - the next generation in-memory analytics tool by SAP

2. Data Harmonization

If different master data is maintained across different landscape, you have the chance to transform the data at this layer before going into your target. This allows a cleaner implementation for your Business Intelligence solution.

3. Real-time Web Service Interface

Any extraction in Business Objects Data Services can be easily upgraded to be a Real-time Web Service. This means that you can publish your web service and allow easy integration with any other solutions.

4. Full Set Debugging Tools

Business Objects Data Services comes with very good debugging tools. You can debug your extraction while it it running, and have the flexibility to write scripts fast and quick to debug your extraction. Imagine doing that in SAP BW data flow, it is not that easy.

5. Flexibility

Business Objects Data Services has a lot of flexibility. You can call a script, use a command prompt to trigger a job, do some crazy transformation in your extraction, your imagination is the limit. You will be surprised how much this tool can do what you want.