Format non-sap files to CSV

Hi,
I have this issue and would want your suggestions. we are pulling data from a non-sap system. We are using MS Access to retrieve the tables from the non-sap system. We then have to gro through and manually format the tables into attribute and text CSV files by pciking and choosing the table fields form the MS Access database. This is extremely tedious. What are other options for me to do this efficiently?
Thanks,
RT

Hi RT,
Yes you can load it via ETL. If it is a SAP certified ETL tool for e.g. Informatica then you can have a add-in in BW side known as SAP CONNECT and ETL can directly talk to your BW system via RFC. But if you don't have a SAP CONNECT in BW system then you need to interact via file interface. There will be definitely a high performance issues when you are interchanging big volume files between ETL and BW. Why don't you considering DB CONNECT ? Got feeling says that it would be much faster than ETL extraction.
If you are going for ETL interface then you might need to consider few design issues: -
1) How BW system should now when to extract the file or the file has reached the application server in BW ?
2) How to ensure that the file delivered by ETL is complete?
3) Data reconciliation may be required.
Hope it helps.
Thx,
Soumya

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