Data Flow Architecture

The SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP begins a data flow that moves data from source SAP systems to the Rawdata library. The performance data is stored in the Rawdata library as SAS data sets. The SAS IT Resource Management solution uses these raw data sets as input and provides solutions for your business needs.

Source data from various SAP systems flows through a series of extraction, transformation, and loading processes to be converted into a usable format for SAS IT Resource Management. Figure 1.2 details the basic concept behind this data flow. The SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP plays its role in the first step of the model.

To extract data, define extraction jobs that create SAS data sets in the Rawdata library. The Rawdata library is the input library for the SAS IT Resource Management staging jobs, as displayed in the following figure.

Multiple steps are required before you can run the SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP to extract performance data from SAP. Separate transformations are used to extract standard SAP statistics and business warehouse server performance tables.