ASUG Webcast: Exploring the
Capabilities of SAP Data Integration
and Data Cleansing Tools
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Bjarne Berg
Director SAP BI
[ ANUP MAHESHWARI
ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
MEMBER SINCE: 2008
[ SHERRYANNE MEYER
[ AJAY VONKARERY
ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
MEMBER SINCE: 1999
ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER
MEMBER SINCE: 2000
[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview
 Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ Learning Points
SAP data service capabilities delivered in the SAP Data Integrator
and SAP Data Quality Management tools. Learn what is new,
what is simple to implement and what requires a bit more effort
based on experiences from real projects and lessons learned from
the field.
Explore the limitations and benefits of the tools, as well as what
options each tool provides from a technical and business
perspective.
This Webcast will explore the new capabilities and the roadmap
for integrating new features and functions in 2009 and 2010 and
what can realistically be achieved by organizations. The session is
intended for beginner and intermediate level attendees.
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview
 Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ The 3-Tiers of Information Management
Information management from an SAP perspective is six distinct efforts with
different tools and some overlapping of functionality.
Therefore the SAP BOBJ tools are many with various capabilities
Applications
ERP, SCM,
CRM
Information
Management
Structured
Data
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Business
Intelligence
Performance
Management
Data Synchronization &
Migration
Data Federation
Text Analysis
Masterdata Mgmt.
Data Integration
Data Quality
Metadata Mgmt.
RDBMS
RDBMS
ERP
ERP
Unstructured
Data
Notes
Web
Email
Docs
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The total BOBJ toolset
Source: SAP
March, 2009
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The total BOBJ Data Management toolset
There are many
BusinessObjects
data quality and
integration tools
that are not
specific to SAP.
The tool
landscape can
be very
confusing and
the best
approach is to
examine this
SAP site.
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/information-management/index.epx
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview
 Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
is a data movement, cleansing & integration tool.
1.
Data Services Designer allows you to create
jobs (applications) that include
transformations and data mappings
2.
The Data Services XI 3.1 RealTime tool
supports real-time data movement for
integration to web pages, applications and
other systems.
3.
Previously you had these functions in
BusinessObjects Data Integrator XI 2 and
Data Quality XI 2
Image: SAP AG, Aug. 2009
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[ The XI 3.1 Data Services Architecture
The tool architectural view of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
Target
Data
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PeopleSoft
Siebel
Oracle DB
SQL DB
XML
Mainframe
Excel
Oracle Apps
SAP R/3
SAP ECC
SAP BI
NetWeaver
DB2
Files
Others
Process
Data Validation
Data
Cleansing
Data
Auditing
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Data Services Engine
Data Profiling
Source
Data
PeopleSoft
Siebel
Oracle DB
SQL DB
XML
Mainframe
Excel
Oracle Apps
SAP R/3
SAP ECC
SAP BI
NetWeaver
DB2
Files
Others
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[ Pre-delivered connectors to systems and databases
Applications
1. SAP R/3 & ECC
– ABAP
– BAPI
– Idoc
2. SAP NetWeaver BI
3. JD Edwards
4. Oracle Apps
5. Siebel
6. Salesforce.com
7. PeopleSoft
The high-performance
parallel data processing also
supports grid computing
platforms for batch and
real-time execution
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Transports & File formats
1. XML
2. SOAP -Web Service
3. Cobol
4. HTTP
5. JMS
6. Excel
7. EBCDIC
8. Text fixed width
9. Text delimited
MainFrames
1. Enscribe
2. ADABAS
3. IMS/DB
4. RMS
5. VSAM
6. ISAM
Databases
1. Oracle
2. SQL Server
3. IBM DB2
4. Sybase & IQ
5. MySQL
6. Informix
7. Teradata
8. Netezza
9. ODBC
Non-Structured Data
• 30+ languages
• Any fileformat
All major platforms are
supported with predelivered connectors that
can be installed for data
movement
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview

Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ The Components
Data Services Designer
Data Services Designer
This GUI is where you design ETL
and cleansing jobs. The interface
is intended to be used to develop
applications that are specifying
work flows (job execution
definitions) & data flows (data
transformation definitions).
Web Administrator
Web
Applications
Access
Server
Central Repository
Local Repository
Job Server
& Engine
Data Source
Servers
Data target
Server
Data Services Job Server
This application launches the Data Services processing engine and
provides an engine interface and access to other components.
Data Services engine
This engine executes jobs defined in the application and creates the
needed engines for maximum performance.
Note: A Workflow may consist of many data flows. Data-flows are source-target
focused, while Workflows are an entire job (think process chains in SAP BI)
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[ The Components
Data Services Repository
A local database that
contains pre-delivered and
user-defined objects (i.e.
transformation rules). You
can also create a central
repository for version control
and to share objects,
Data Services Designer
Web Administrator
Web
Applications
Access
Server
Central Repository
Local Repository
Job Server
& Engine
Data Source
Servers
Data target
Server
Data Services Access Server
Provides reliable processing on request-response messages between
applications, engines and the Job Server.
Data Services Administrator
Web browser-based administration of Data Services (i.e. kick-off batch
jobs, scheduling and performance monitoring).
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[ How Does it Work
There are several steps to
implement Data Services XI 3.1,
In the following slides we will
highlight the major tasks
1) Create a local repository
for the install
Data Services Designer
2) Add a job server in the
Data Service – Service
Manager
3) Associate the local
repository with the job
server
Web Administrator
Web
Applications
Access
Server
Central Repository
Local Repository
Job Server
& Engine
Data Source
Servers
Data target
Server
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[ The Data Service Designer
The Data Service Designer is the nerve center of the Data Services. This is
where most of the time is spent during the development projects.
Work area
Projects
Object
Library
(local)
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Tools
Image: SAP AG, Aug. 2009
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[ The Administrator Interface
From the administrator Interface you can
monitor jobs, start and stop web services,
manage repositories, servers, connection
and source system definitions.
This is where you spend most of your
time after the system has been developed.
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[ Impact Analysis and Lineage
Lineage is an end-user view that shows
how Calculated Key Figures (CKF) are
calculated from the source to the target.
This tool increases the likelihood that
people will trust your data.
Impact analysts is a tool to determine
who will be affected by a change in the
IT system (i.e. who is using this measure
or characteristic)
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview

Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ Data Cleansing Capabilities
The Profile
This tab in the “view data” screen contains data profile statistics on each
column that can help you decide on the quality of the input data.
The system automatically captures the following statistics in a profile grid.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Column Name
Number of distinct values in a column
Number of records with a NULL value in this column
Maximum & Minimum value of the column
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[ Data Cleansing Capabilities
The Validation
Validation allows you to create rules for cleaning data prior to loading it to the
system. You can have a pass rule and an Action on Failure that can provide
complex logic
.
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[ Data Cleansing Capabilities
The Audit
The Auditing selection
allows you to take complex
actions when the data quality
is poor. You can:
1. Send an email to an
administrator
2. Load the data to a table for
later correction
3. Modify the data through
scripts
4. Create custom functions for
your own processing logic
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Universal Data Cleansing: Example of Enhanced Party Masterdata
You can also add new items such as geocodes for visualization in
SAP BI I.e. maps
You can add new
characteristics to the
data such as:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
Legal tax jurisdictions
Census track ID
Block group ID
Insurance rating territories
Tax authority name
Tax authority FIPS codes
Longditude & Latitude
City type
...
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GREAT FEATURE: The Census track ID allows
you to analyze your customers and partners using
government census information
Source: SAP AG, 2009
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Universal Data Cleansing: Customer Aggregating and Discovery
A common way to look at
customer data is by
Households instead of single records.
BOBJ DQ allows you to look at customer's addresses and create
shared master records, customer mapping keys, aggregating data
(i.e. aggregated sales data for the household), check "no-call" lists,
examining churn (apparent customer turn-over).
You can also integrating all masterdata from many records into a
single "super record" that contains all the unique masterdata you
have about a single customer or partner.
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Source: SAP AG, 2009
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Universal Data Cleansing: Data integration & BAS
BAS is the Business Address Service feature.With this you can:
1) Use Postal reference files from 190 countries to clean address, including suggestion lists
2) Data scans and searches in SAP for duplicate records using partial user input.
SAP Data Quality Management has pre-delivered content for many solutions
including CRM -> ECC integration. This include:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Across platform search capabilities
Automated address correction
De-Duplication of records
Direct system connection (no file extraction)
Supported for all major releases: R/3 4.6c; ECC 5 and 6; CRM 4 and 5
"Data Quality Management for SAP provides a prepackaged native integration of data quality best practices
SAP AG, 2009
within the SAP environment using the BOBJ Data Services platform"
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview

Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ Interesting use for SAP NetWeaver BI
Using BOBJ Data Services you can consolidate data from many
source systems, cleanse and integrate them before you send it to
SAP BI. This avoids multi-nested DSOs and complex load logic.
Source systems
- Oracle
- JDE
- Peoplesoft
- Baan
- Siebel
- Custom
- Hyperion
- Other.
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[ Interesting use BOBJ Data Service XI 3.1 for SAP ECC
Using BOBJ Data Services you integrate, cleanse and merge data
from source systems during
1) ECC implementation projects,
2) Retirement of legacy systems,
3) Mergers and Acquisitions.
Source systems
- Oracle
- JDE
- Peoplesoft
- Baan
- Siebel
- Custom
- Hyperion
- Other.
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[ What is New in XI 3.1
 Expanded matching capabilities to allow the business user to
select other fields (beyond street name and zip code) within the
generation of break keys.
 An improved method to install the functionality of this product
into your IC WebClient or CRM IC WebClient environment. To
do so, you add a Component Usage to the Component to which
you want to add Postal Validation.
 If you have purchased the geocoding option for this product,
geocoding allows you to return latitude, longitude, and relevant
status information for a U.S. address record
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[ What is New in XI 3.1
The Business Add-Ins are supported on SAP CRM 2007 (Basis version 7.00).
The RFC Server is supported on the following operating systems:
HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) (Itanium)
IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3
Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 4 and 5
Red Hat Advanced Server 4 and 5
Solaris 9 and 10
SuSE Enterprise Server 9 SP3 and 10
Windows XP (32 bit)
Windows 2003 Server (32 bit)
On Windows, the ability to install the RFC Server as a Windows Service or a
stand-alone program.
Use of BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 SP1 (v12.1.1) for its data quality
operations.
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[ Agenda
 Introduction
 BOBJ Data Management Tool overview
 SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1 Overview

Components and capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.1
 Data Cleansing
 Some Ideas & What is New
 Wrap-up
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[ Resources
COMERIT Inc. Downloads
http://www.comeritinc.com/Downloads.htm
SAP BusinessObjects Data management web site:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/informationmanagement/index.epx
SAP Data Quality web site:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/information-management/dataquality-management/index.epx
SAP BOBJ - Data Insight:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/information-management/dataquality-management/datainsight/index.epx
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[ Questions and Answers
How to contact me:
Dr. Bjarne Berg
bberg@comeritinc.com
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 Thank you for participating.
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