How Top Enterprises Solve Complex SAP Data Integration Challenges
Blog post from CData
CData positions its SAP integration platform as an ODP-independent ETL solution for organizations managing increasingly complex, hybrid SAP environments while addressing performance, compliance, and operational continuity requirements. Its approach combines RFC for high-throughput bulk and delta replication with OData for lightweight, stateless queries, aiming to avoid restrictions on SAP’s Operational Data Provisioning framework and support governed access under standards such as GDPR, DORA, and SOC 2. The material highlights challenges including fragmented ECC, S/4HANA, BW, and custom ABAP systems, large transactional tables, OData paging limitations, and evolving SAP platform policies. It recommends mapping business KPIs to relevant SAP tables, using RFC-based incremental extraction and validation, automating ELT workloads into cloud warehouses, and evaluating tools by connectivity, security, deployment flexibility, and pricing. CData Sync is presented as supporting scheduled jobs, parallel execution, schema-change detection, and deployment through self-hosted, private-cloud, or managed SaaS options, with Recordati cited as an example of integrating SAP ECC and Salesforce for compliant cross-platform reporting.
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