SAP S/4HANA · Bulk extraction
Extract once. Own the layer.
Pull your SAP data out one time, into a cloud you own — then report on it with any tool, no SAP licence per person.
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◆ The pattern, left to right— source → released CDS view → SLT / CDC / BDC → your cloud → your owned model.
01 · SOURCE
Where SAP keeps it
ACDOCA · MATDOC
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02 · COPY
The upgrade-safe view
released CDS view
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03 · MOVE
Out, and kept in sync
SLT · CDC · BDC
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04 · LAND
Into your cloud
GCP · AWS · Azure
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05 · OWN
Your clean model
star schema · dbt
◆ Your own layer vs the standard SAP setup— you own the code & data, it runs on your cloud, any tool reports, ~80–90% less.
Your own layer · Irvine
Standard SAP setup · SAC / Datasphere
Who owns it
You — the code and the data models
SAP — it's their platform
Where it runs
Your cloud — GCP / AWS / Azure
SAP's system
Who can report
Any tool, anyone on the team
SAP tools, gated through IT
A new report takes
Hours
A change request — often weeks
What it costs
Build once, keep it — ~80–90% less
Per user, every year
Want this running on your cloud in 10 days?
We set it all up — the copy pipeline and the data model — checked against SAP, and you own every line.
Terms on this page
- ACDOCA
- SAP's single table holding every finance posting (the "Universal Journal").
- MATDOC
- SAP's single table for stock and material movements.
- CDS view
- Core Data Services — an SAP-supplied, upgrade-safe "window" onto the data.
- SLT
- SAP Landscape Transformation — SAP's tool for copying tables out in real time.
- CDC
- Change Data Capture — copies only what changed (the "delta"), not everything each time.
- BDC
- SAP Business Data Cloud — SAP's newer way to share data without copying it.
- ODP-RFC
- An older extraction route SAP now bans for non-SAP tools (Note 3255746).
- dbt
- A popular open tool for building and testing data models in your warehouse.
- star schema
- A simple, report-friendly layout: one "facts" table with "lookup" tables around it.
- SAC / Datasphere
- SAP's own reporting and data-warehouse products.