3 posts tagged with "Real-time"

Every SAP extraction pipeline built in the last decade rests on one of a handful of interfaces. For a great many of them, that interface is ODP-RFC — the RFC modules of the Operational Data Provisioning framework, RODPS_REPL_*.

SAP Note 3255746 prohibits third-party use of those modules. Not deprecates: prohibits. They are defined as being exclusively for data transfer between SAP applications, and the prohibition covers customer and third-party applications reading S/4HANA, BW or ECC, on-premise or in private cloud. Since 9 June 2026 a security patch in the support packages technically blocks the calls. A temporary opt-out carries non-compliant integrations to the end of 2026, and then it does not.

The note does not leave you without a path. It names what remains permitted, and one item on that list is where SAP developers have been putting their semantics for years: CDS view extraction. So we built that path — and the engine we built it on turns out to be the one SAP's own recommended alternative already runs on.

Picture a forecasting team at an industrial-controls Mittelstand. Their job for the next quarter: launch an AI-driven inventory and demand-forecasting tool that the operations team will actually trust enough to act on. They have the model. They have the GPUs. They cannot ship.

The reason: their nightly ETL job runs at 02:00 and finishes around 04:00, by which point the model trains on data that's already half a day old. By the time the forecast reaches the procurement system at 08:00, it's reasoning about a world that existed fourteen hours ago. When the CFO asks why the model recommended ordering more of an item that just sold out at lunchtime, nobody has a good answer — because the data the model saw never knew the lunchtime existed.

The fix isn't a better ETL. The fix is removing the ETL.

Summary​

Learn how to build real-time SAP dashboards using ERPL and DuckDB. This comprehensive guide covers everything from data extraction to dashboard creation, including practical examples and best practices for monitoring your SAP systems in real-time.