SAP Business objects DATA SERVICES What's New
What's New
■ SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0 (14.0.0)
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Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................5Chapter 1
1.1
1.2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.10.1
2.10.2
2.10.3
2.10.4
2.10.5
SAP BusinessObjects information resources...........................................................................5
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0......................................................6
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0 features..............................................................9Chapter 2
Documentation.........................................................................................................................9
SAP integration........................................................................................................................9
Security.................................................................................................................................11
Text Data Processing.............................................................................................................12
Architecture...........................................................................................................................12
Transforms.............................................................................................................................13
Operational excellence...........................................................................................................14
Functions...............................................................................................................................14
Source and target support.....................................................................................................15
Data Quality...........................................................................................................................15
Data Cleanse transform.........................................................................................................17
Geocoder transform...............................................................................................................18
Global Address Cleanse transform.........................................................................................19
Match transform.....................................................................................................................21
USA Regulatory Address Cleanse transform.........................................................................24
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Introduction
Introduction
1.1 SAP BusinessObjects information resources
A global network of SAP BusinessObjects technology experts provides customer support, education,
and consulting to ensure maximum information management benefit to your business.
Useful addresses at a glance:
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ContentAddress
Customer Support, Consulting, and Education
services
http://service.sap.com/
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Community
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ds
Forums on SCN (SAP Community Network )
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/forum.jspa?foru
mID=305
Blueprints
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/blueprints
Information about SAP Business User Support
programs, as well as links to technical articles,
downloads, and online forums. Consulting services
can provide you with information about how SAP
BusinessObjects can help maximize your information management investment. Education services
can provide information about training options and
modules. From traditional classroom learning to
targeted e-learning seminars, SAP BusinessObjects
can offer a training package to suit your learning
needs and preferred learning style.
Get online and timely information about SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, including tips and tricks,
additional downloads, samples, and much more.
All content is to and from the community, so feel
free to join in and contact us if you have a submission.
Search the SAP BusinessObjects forums on the
SAP Community Network to learn from other SAP
BusinessObjects Data Services users and start
posting questions or share your knowledge with the
community.
Blueprints for you to download and modify to fit your
needs. Each blueprint contains the necessary SAP
BusinessObjects Data Services project, jobs, data
flows, file formats, sample data, template tables,
and custom functions to run the data flows in your
environment with only a few modifications.
SAP BusinessObjects product documentation.Product documentation
http://help.sap.com/businessobjects/
Supported Platforms (Product Availability Matrix)
https://service.sap.com/PAM
Get information about supported platforms for SAP
BusinessObjects Data Services.
Use the search function to search for Data Services.
Click the link for the version of Data Services you
are searching for.
1.2 Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0
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Introduction
Welcome to SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0 version 14.0.0. This What's New document
highlights the new features available with this release. Note: The What's New document describes new
functionality in major and minor releases only; support packages and patches do not contain new
functionality.
For important information about this product release including installation notes and known issues, see
the
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Release Notes
BusinessObjects Data Services Customer Issues Fixed
. For resolved issues, see the
.
SAP
SAP offers other products that complement SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and provide additional
Enterprise Information Management solutions. These include:
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Federator
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management for Enterprise Applications
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management SDK
• SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight
• SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward (expected in 2011)
• SAP Master Data Governance for Embedded MDM
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW)
• SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management for Enterprise MDM
• SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts
• SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis
For more information, see the SAP website or contact an SAP sales representative.
Data Services overview
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services delivers a single enterprise-class solution for data integration,
data quality, data profiling, and text data processing that allows you to integrate, transform, improve,
and deliver trusted data to critical business processes. It provides one development UI, metadata
repository, data connectivity layer, run-time environment, and management console—enabling IT
organizations to lower total cost of ownership and accelerate time to value. With SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services, IT organizations can maximize operational efficiency with a single solution to improve
data quality and gain access to heterogeneous sources and applications.
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SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0 features
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services XI 4.0 features
2.1 Documentation
Several changes have been made to the documentation set that is provided with SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services.
• Release documentation:
• The
• Resolved issues in the
• The
content has been moved to the new
information about administrative tasks such as monitoring, lifecycle management, security, and so
on. It has also been added to the
documents.
Release Summary
Getting Started Guide
has been renamed to
Release Notes
and
Advanced Development Guide
have been moved to a separate
What's New
Administrator's Guide
Technical Manuals
, which is a compilation of the core Data Services
.
Fixed Issues
have been removed and most of their
. The
Administrator's Guide
contains
document.
Multi-user content in the
Guide
and
Designer Guide.
• The
• The
Management Console: Metadata Reports Guide
have been combined into the
Installation Guide for Windows
Technical Manuals
moved to the
• The
• The
Integrator's Guide
Salesforce.com Adapter Guide
to the
Technical Manuals
2.2 SAP integration
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services integrates with your existing SAP infrastructure with the following
SAP tools:
Reading business content extractors for ERP and CRM/SRM
Data Services can now read SAP business content extractors for ERP and CRM/SRM. Using extractor
sources lets you get data directly from SAP Business Suite applications in a consistent format without
Advanced Development Guide
Management Console Guide
and
Installation Guide for UNIX
. All post-installation, administrative content in the installation guides has been
Administrator's Guide
has been added to the
.
.
Technical Manuals
has been renamed to
has been moved to the
and
Management Console: Administrator Guide
.
have been removed from the
.
Administrator's
Supplement for Salesforce.com
and added
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