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Data Flow

Chapter Overview:

General Aim

The 'Data Flows' in the Performer Suite are a central functionality of the application. It will support you to understand your Business Analytics Applications.
You can use the 'Data Flows' itself or a subsets of them, the so-called 'Data Flow Views'. With those 'Data Flow Views' you will receive a better overview of your documentations or they can be used for an easier and faster analysis of branches of your 'Data Flow'.

Supported Functionalities and Entity Types

Meanwhile, the Data Flows in the Performer Suite are not just a BW-specific functionality. The Data Flows can be used and displayed for different object types of different systems and different functionalities are supported.



Data Flow Analysis

BW Entities

ERP & S/4

HANA Repository Entities

SAC Entities

Further information and examples

The following sections list the supported entity types in detail. In addition, you can see a sample data flow on the right side:


BW InfoProvider

  1.  3. x InfoSources

  2.  7. x InfoSources

  3.  Advanced DSOs

  4.  Aggregation Levels

  5.  Characteristics (InfoProvider)

  6.  DataSources

  7.  Destinations

  8.  DSOs

  9.  HANA Composite Providers

  10.  HybridProviders

  11.  InfoCubes

  12.  InfoSets

  13.  MultiProvider

  14.  Open ODS Views

  15.  Queries

  16. Semantic Partitioned Objects



You can see that Calculation Views are displayed in BW Data Flow too. To use the full functionalities you have to license the related HANA database and maintain your HANA Schema Mappings.




ERP & S/4 Entities

  •  ABAP CDS Data Definitions

  •  DDIC Views


HANA Repository Views

  •  Analytic View

  •  Attribute View

  •  Calculation View

  •  Table Functions

  •  Stored Procedure











If external SAP HANA Views are generated for BW entities the external HANA Views are displayed as BW entities in the HANA Data Flow. 
With that functionality, you are able to work directly with the BW entities.

To use that functionality you have to maintain the HANA Schema Mappings.




SAC Entities

  •  Stories

  • Analytic Applications

  •  Models

  • Templates

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