informatica cloud techtuesdays session 3: simplifying sap connectivity with cloud integration
DESCRIPTION
Easily connect to your SAP applications for data warehousing, data migration, and cloud application integration without having to resort to complex coding for proprietary data formats.TRANSCRIPT
#TechTuesdays @infacloud
Simplifying SAP Connectivity with Cloud Integration
Anand Peri, Cloud Product ManagementAshwin Viswanath, Cloud Product Marketing
InformaticaCloud.com/SAP
Agenda
• SAP Integration – Why is it important?
• Demo
• Loading SAP customer info into Salesforce
• Bulk extraction from clustered tables to flat files
• Using Salesforce Outbound Messaging
• Performing lookups
• Summary
• Q & A
• Next #TechTuesdays Session
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SAP: The Leading ERP Vendor by Market Share
Source: Gartner, Forbes
SaaS Growth Taking Off Simultaneously
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SAP Integration: Why Is It Important?
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ERP systems contain mission critical information: Customer
info, purchase history, inventories, financials
CRM - fastest growing SaaS category: Need to integrate with
ERP systems for order fulfillment, customer information
Business Intelligence / Analytics:Reduce data extraction time from SAP systems
into your data warehouse
SAP Integration: Use Cases & Features
• Primary use cases: Data warehousing, migration, app sync
• Informatica Cloud Integration for SAP Solutions features:
• Extract from Transparent, Cluster, Pooled tables & views
• User defined joins (relationships)
• Data sorting
• Toggle between technical/business names
• Object search to browse metadata
• Wizard-driven connector
• System variables supported in filters
• Lookups on SAP tables
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#TechTuesdays @infacloud
Cloud SAP Integration DemonstrationAnand Peri, Cloud Product Management
InformaticaCloud.com/SAP
#TechTuesday Tips for Success
1. Import SAP connector transports1
2. Ensure that the SAP JCo libraries are available1
3. Setup the SAP user with privileges for several SAP objects2
4. Use filters and only select the SAP columns that are needed – this will improve performance
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1 See https://community.informatica.com/docs/DOC-33402 See https://community.informatica.com/docs/DOC-3530
Next Steps
• Contact your Account Manager to try out the SAP connector
• Join the Informatica Cloud Community: https://community.informatica.com/community/products/informatica_cloud
• Attend #TechTuesdays Session 5: Benefits of Using REST APIs in Integration www.informaticacloud.com/techtuesdays
#TechTuesdays @infacloud