A bit confused with your Gap Analysis example

Hi Robert,
As I analyzed your Gap Analysis example, I getting a bit confused.
In your message below, with the 0 in the 0Customer, arent you already (by BW convention), assuming that 0Customer is a standard business content object?
... but you also in the same statement noted that ..and std business content doesn't provide it in your extractor
I am thinking, it is a business content object already, why does he say the source system doesnt provide it?
Also, what were you referring to as in your extractor did you mean in the source system?
Quote from Robert Gap analysis process has to be performed when you know that you can use a std business content extractor (or cube or something else) and you have to compare it yo your actual requirements: do you need 0CUSTOMER and std business content doesn't provide it in your extractor...well, now you have done a gap analysis !
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Caud,
sorry, but I think that Praveen explanation doesn't exactly match with what do you need to know...
The Gap Analysis Fit is a step inside an ideal business blueprint of a BW project implementation (but, clearly, the same concept can be applied to several situation...).
During this step, after having collected all the client's requirements, you have to higlight what you need (or what you can) to use to build what the user wants.
In this analysis, you find that a business content datasource (found via help.sap.com or after the SDN's forum suggestion or...) can provide almost all the required fields (since a datasource is a collection of several fields..).
Anyway, notwithstanding this, you realize that this datasource is good only for a 95%, because it's missing the info related to the customer (usually shown with 0CUSTOMER object, but you can use a ZCUSTOMER or something else...the only important thing is that you need this info!).
Ok, you know that in order to fit this gap, you have to build your own enhancement with a little userexit to fill this missing field: THIS IS THE GAP ANALYSIS FIT !!!
This explanation applies also to a std cube, to a std query and so on...
Sure, you use std business content, but why you ask "why does he say the source system doesnt provide it" ???
The std objects can't provide always all we need, but only, if we are lucky, a part (more or less) of it...and at this point you need to perform this kind of analysis...
Hope now is clearer...
Bye,
Roberto

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