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Capturing Data with the SAP Extractor

The SAP Extractor is a program in SAP ERP that can be both customized or taken from a standard Data Source. It prepares and captures data through an extract structure that can be transferred to the Business Warehouse of SAP. Both the options of the SAP Extractor help to describe a delta load process or various types of full load. The SAP BW can remotely access the various data transfer activities of the SAP Extractor.



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SAP Extractor executes SAP data extraction in three ways.

The first is Content Extraction used to extract BW content, FI, HR, CO, SAP CRM, and LO cockpit. The second is Customer-Generated Extraction where the SAP Extractor is used for LIS, FI-SL, CO-PA. The third is Generic Extraction which is based on DB View, Infoset, Function Modules. The SAP Extractor used for a specific extraction activity depends on the particular needs of an organization.

Data capturing and extraction with the SAP Extractor is initiated with the help of several application-specific extractors. After being hard-coded for the Data Source, these are then delivered together with the BI Content for the BW. The SAP Extractor is so designed that it exactly matches the structure of the Data Source.      

Moreover, there are several generic extractors that are used for extracting SAP data from source systems and transferring to the SAP BW. As the complete data capturing process is automated, the SAP Extractor will automatically know which data has to be extracted and from which tables the data has to be read. A major advantage here is that SAP data extracted can be moved directly to Excel sheets with users having the option to generically extract SAP data.     
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