SAP HANA : Brief Introduction of Data Provisioning

Data Provisioning

In general Provision means Provide. Similarly Data Provisioning means enabling a network to Provide data to its users. Data Provisioning in SAP HANA means a process of creating, preparing and enabling a system to provide data to its users. Data needs to be loaded in system before user can use the same on front end. To provide the data to user data is loaded in system using ETL processes.

Data can be provisioned either using Built-In tools or using External.

Built-In tools are:

·         Flat file

·         Smart Data Access

·         Smart data Streaming

·         Enterprise Information Management Remote data.

External tool are:

·         SAP Landscape Transformation(SLT)

·         SAP Business Objects Data Services(BODS)

·         SAP Direct Extractor Connection(DXC)

·         Sybase Replication Server

Every Data Provisioning technique has its own pros and cons. Like SLT is used when data need to be loaded in real time, BODS is used when data is not required in real time, it is used for loading data using batch processes, DXC used when data needs to be loaded into SAP Business Suite via simple connection (HTTP ) to HANA etc.