History
of SAP BODS/ Evolution of SAP BODS:
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services was not
directly developed by SAP Company. It was acquired from BusinessObjects Company
and BusinessObjects acquired it from Acta Technology Inc.
Acta Technology Inc., headquartered in
Mountain View, CA was provider of first real time data integration platform.
The two software products provided by Acta were an ETL tool, named as Data
Integration (DI) tool also known as ‘Actaworks’ and a Data Management
orData Quality (DQ) tool.
BusinessObjects, a French company, world’s
leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions acquired Acta
Technology Inc. in the year 2002. BusinessObjects rebranded the two products of
Acta as BusinessObjects Data Integration (BODI) tool and BusinessObjects
Data Quality (BODQ) tool.
In the year 2007, SAP, legend in ERP
solutions, acquired BusinessObjects and renamed the products as SAP
BODI and SAP BODQ. Later in the year 2008 SAP
integrated both software products into a single end to end software product and
named it as SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS) which
provides both data integration and data management solutions. In
the earlier versions of SAP BODS text data processing solution is also included
with it.
Why SAP BODS?
In the present market there are many ETL
tools which dose Extraction, Transformation and Loading tasks like SAP BODS,
Informatica, IBM InfoSphere Data Stage, Abinitio, Oracle Warehouse Builder
(OWB) etc.
Let’s look over why SAP BODS has got much
importance in the present world’s market,
- Firstly, it is a SAP product, as SAP is
serving 70% of present world’s market and it is tightly integrated with
any database.
- SAP BODS is a single product which
delivers Data Integration, Data Quality, Data profiling and Text data
processing solutions.
- SAP Data Services can Move, Unlock and
govern enterprise data effectively.
- SAP Data Services Cost-effectively
delivers its solutions and is single window application with complete easy
to use GUI (Graphical User Interface).
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