CRM Master Data Extraction

Question

Dear all,
Can anyone help me with how to paper about CRM Master Data Extraction? I need to know on how to extract Business Partner and its attributes (Relationship, Address and others), also on how to extract CRM Marketing Attributes for Business Partner.
Thanks for your help.
Ricky

Answer 1

Hello Ricky,
I haven't found any conclusive document about loading Business Partner from CRM 4.0 to BW 3.5. If there is someone out there who knows about that documentation I would really appreciate it.
Here is what we did regarding BP relations, marketing attributes and addresses:
1. Marketing attributes:
These data type is difficult, because you have to build a special extractor for each marketing attribute group. And because Marketing attributes cannot be transported, you cannot transport the extractor. This poses a big problem in many projects. Therefore we solved it by creating some view extractors on the appropriate CRM tables: AUSP, CABN, KSML, KLAH. I can give you some more details, if this will help.
2. BP relations:
We build a view extractor for this too, because it was much easier to extract the data from BUT050 and BUT051 than trying to find out, how the business content extractors do their work. Using this extractor, we build some special ODS and InfoCubes for the relations we were interested in.
There is Business content for BP relations, but we kept to the generic extractors, because they were easier to verify.
3. BP adresses:
We use 0CRM_BPDEFADDR_ATTR to get the primary address.
We use 0CRM_BPART_ATTR to get BP master data
We use 0CRM_BPART_TEXT to get BP text.
We have only about 300.000 BP in CRM, so we do a full update everyday.
I am not sure, if these three data sources are part of the current BW 3.5 business content, because we started with BW 3.0 and did not check for BC updates.
Kind regards,
Jürgen
Message was edited by: Jürgen Kirsch