SAP is a bit different... it is more structured than most other environments and there are specific requirements on running ABAP programs in production systems. Since this is a common topic, and since we have a very nice solution (if I may say so) for it in OWB, I figured to write it up on blog.
Some background, OWB comes with an SAP connector, and has done so for its entire life. We have invested quite a bit of time, effort and knowledge into this capability. Not just from our development staff, but also leveraging SAP expertise from New Frontiers (www.newfrontiers.com). Active users have worked on the connector to make sure it addresses things like the above described need of managing ABAP code in SAP (more later in detail of course). New Frontiers actually created an entire data warehouse out of the box based on the Oracle stack with OWB as the tool to create all ETL from SAP into Oracle and using OWB to model the entire dimensional model...... more on the Oracle blogspot.
