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Can I still use my 3rd party ETL tool after an upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 2004s?

April 26, 2017ETL NetWeaver party SAP Tool upgrade

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Can I still use my 3rd party ETL tool after an upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 2004s?

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The latest BI release in SAP NetWeaver 2004s includes a new type of DataSource for which our staging BAPI has not yet been aligned. Third party ETL tool vendors can therefore only implement their load processes using the original type of DataSource from BW 3.x. This DataSource is still provided in the new release without any changes. Upgrading to NetWeaver 2004s BI (BI 7.0) does not therefore endanger existing implementations based on BW 3.x and NetWeaver 2004 (BW 3.5). It is also possible to migrate third party ETL implementations based on BW 3.x into the new data-flow concept of a NetWeaver 2004s BI environment using new DataSources, transformations (also new), and data transfer processes (DTP) (also new). This is possible because the system provides an emulated view for BW 3.x DataSources, which makes it possible to combine them with NetWeaver 2004s transformations and DTPs for regular batch load processing (this does not include direct access and real-time data acquisition (RDA)).