SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Data Integration and Data Quality Management

SAP® BusinessObjects^TM 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 TCO 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.

TechEd
Data Services 4.0 and beyond New!

Data Services 4.0 was introduced at TechEd 2010 and is seeing great adoption by customers now after its initial release in December 2010 (start of ramp-up) and reaching the general availability (unrestricted shipment) last June. The TechEd session from last year is still available at the Virtual TechEd 2010 website.

This year we are back at TechEd with more content around Data Services 4.0 as well as a sneak preview into what's coming out in the (near) future. When you're visiting TechEd Las Vegas (September 12-16), Bangalore (October 19-21), or Madrid (November 8-11), make sure you check out these Data Services sessions :

EIM101, SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0 and beyond (1hr Lecture)
EIM161, Using Business Content Extractors in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (2hr Hands-on)
EIM267, The Importance of Cleansing and Standardizing Product Data (2hr Hands-on)
EIM108, Find Out What Your Customers Are Saying: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly! (1hr Lecture)

You will find all details about TechEd 2011 on the TechEd website on SDN.

02 Sep 2011

Idea Place
Contribute to the next release of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services New!

Idea Place is a straightforward interface, primarily designed to make the process of submitting ideas and feedback as simple as possible. There are several ways to participate, including submitting new ideas, commenting on existing ideas, voting and watching via notifications. Data Services has its own area on Idea Place now, so start entering your ideas or vote on the 30+ ideas (and counting) already entered.

18 Nov 2010

Video Tutorials

This set of 10 minute videos answers basic questions around the Data Services product like "what is it?" or "what is so special about it?" and more... Video page

08 Jun 2009

How to implement Delta Loads

Data Sevices supports all kinds of Delta Mechanisms, or to be more precise, you(!) can build all easily. But it is still your responsibility and most important, what does the source system provide as information? Delta Load Implementation

07 May 2009

Wiki contains Data Quality chapters

The Data Services WiKi contains extensive chapters on how certain Data Quality Transforms are used including performance numbers. Learn how these are used and what you can do with them - Data Quality chapter

04 Jun 2009

Building Data Integrator Real-time Jobs and Calling Web Services (PDF 1.4 MB)

This white paper shows how to construct a real-time job, expose it via a web service, and invoke a web service using Data Integrator (DI). It follows on from a previous white paper - Manipulating XML using Data Integrator.

05 Apr 2009