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Overview

SAP Data Services (formerly Business Objects Data Services, or BODS) is an enterprise-class ETL tool that provides a single solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It allows users to design and manage data integration projects, extracting data from various sources (with deep integration for SAP systems), transforming it, and loading it into target systems.

✨ Key Features

  • Data integration (ETL) and data quality combined in one platform
  • Deep integration with SAP ERP and SAP BW/HANA
  • Advanced data profiling and metadata management
  • Text data processing and entity extraction
  • Graphical, flow-based design interface
  • High-performance, scalable architecture

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Unparalleled, native integration with SAP data structures and APIs
  • Combines data integration and data quality into a single tool
  • Strong data profiling and metadata management capabilities

Unique Value: Provides a comprehensive and high-performance solution for integrating, transforming, and improving data quality, especially for organizations that rely on SAP systems as their core.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Migrating data into SAP S/4HANA Building an enterprise data warehouse with data from SAP and non-SAP systems Data quality and cleansing initiatives Consolidating data for Master Data Management (MDM)

✅ Best For

  • Data migration for an SAP S/4HANA implementation project
  • Extracting and transforming data from SAP ECC for a non-SAP data warehouse
  • Cleansing and standardizing customer address data

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Lightweight, simple data replication
  • Organizations with no SAP systems in their landscape
  • Cloud-native ELT from SaaS sources

🏆 Alternatives

Informatica PowerCenter Talend Data Integration IBM InfoSphere DataStage Microsoft SSIS

Offers far superior integration and understanding of complex SAP systems than any other general-purpose ETL tool, making it the standard choice for SAP-centric data projects.

💻 Platforms

Self-hosted (Windows, Linux)

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, SAP BW Oracle Microsoft SQL Server Hadoop Cloud storage (S3, ADLS) Major cloud data warehouses

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (SAP Support tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ GDPR ✓ SSO

💰 Pricing

Contact for pricing

✓ 14-day free trial

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