4 posts tagged with "SAP"

← Part 1: Your SAP Data Is Already Real-Time

Last week the forecasting team at our Mittelstand walked away with something they'd never had: a fresh, validated, DuckDB-native view of every order line and customer record they cared about, no warehouse landing in sight. Latency under five minutes, anomalies caught at the gate. Good ergonomics. Good numbers.

Then the AI engineer asked the question that always comes next.

"Great. How does the agent reach this?"

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.

We built erpl-adt because we got tired of Eclipse being the only way to interact with ABAP systems programmatically. If you wanted to search objects, read source code, or run unit tests against SAP — you had to use Eclipse ADT. No CLI, no scriptable API client, nothing you could plug into a CI pipeline or hand to an AI agent.

So we built one. A single binary that speaks the ADT REST API, works from the command line, and doubles as an MCP server for AI coding agents.

Summary​

Discover how ERPL transforms SAP data integration for data science workflows. This comprehensive guide covers everything from data extraction to machine learning model deployment, showing how ERPL enables data scientists to work directly with SAP data using familiar tools and frameworks.