What is SAP's recommendation to extract data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud and load it into SAP BW/HANA?

Question

Options

• ACreate a BW Data Source on source system of type ODP HANA and leverage extractors based on
• BCreate a BW Data Source on source system of type ODP BW and leverage extractors based on
• CCreate a BW Data Source on source system of type ODP_CDS and leverage extractors based on
• DCreate a BW Data Source on source system of type ODP SAP and leverage extractors based on

• A
  5% (3)
• B
  10% (6)
• C
  84% (51)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Option C is correct because SAP S/4HANA Cloud exposes its data primarily through ABAP CDS (Core Data Services) views - the modern, cloud-native data layer. Using ODP_CDS as the source system type in a BW DataSource directly taps into these CDS views that are annotated for data extraction (@Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled: true), making it SAP's official recommended approach.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (ODP HANA) targets SAP HANA native information models (Calculation Views), which are relevant for on-premise HANA systems, not the CDS-based API surface of S/4HANA Cloud.
• B (ODP BW) is used when the source is another BW system replicating its own DataSources - not applicable for S/4HANA Cloud as a source.
• D (ODP SAP) conflates the real type ODP_SAPI, which handles classic SAPI/LO extractors from older R/3-era systems, not the CDS-first architecture of S/4HANA Cloud.

Memory tip: Think "CDS for Cloud" - S/4HANA Cloud = ODP_CDS. The other types map to legacy or infrastructure layers (HANA views, BW-to-BW, old SAPI extractors), while CDS is the strategic extraction surface going forward.

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