Introduction

This section contains user documentation for Board Connector.

Find more information on how to use and navigate through the user documentation in the section "About this Documentation".

About Board Connector

The Board Connector is an SAP Connector that extracts data from SAP systems and loads it into Board. The main entities in Board Connector are called "extractions". An extraction is a combination of the following elements:

• A connection to a source system (SAP)
• A connection to a destination / target environment (Board)
• A defined extraction type (e.g., Table)

Software Architecture

Board Connector consists of two components:

• A Designer to design and configure extractions.
  When designing extractions in the Designer, the user can create and modify extractions, sources and alter the server settings.
• A Server to execute extractions.
  During the execution phase, the user can execute the extractions that were designed in the Designer. The execution of the extractions takes place on the server.

Extraction Types

Board Connector offers the following extractions types to cover a wide range of data extraction scenarios.

BAPI

Execute BAPIs and Function Modules.

SAP Cloud ECC S4/HANA BW BW/4HANA

BWCube

Extract data from SAP BW InfoCubes and BEx Queries.

BW BW/4HANA

BW Hierarchy

Extract Hierarchies from an SAP BW / BI system.

BW BW/4HANA

DeltaQ

Extract data from DataSources (OLTP) and extractors from ERP and ECC systems.

ECC S4/HANA BW BW/4HANA

ODP

Extract data via the SAP Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework.

ECC S4/HANA BW BW/4HANA

OHS

Extract data from InfoSpokes and OHS destinations.


BW BW/4HANA

Query

Extract data from ERP queries.
BEx queries are covered by BWCube.
ECC S4/HANA

Report

Extract data from SAP ABAP reports.

ECC S4/HANA

Table

Extract data from SAP tables and views.

ECC S4/HANA BW BW/4HANA

Table CDC

Extract delta data from SAP tables and views.

ECC S4/HANA BW BW/4HANA