ODS

Operational Data Store

• An Operational Data Store object (ODS object)
is used to store consolidated
and cleansed data (transaction data or master
data for example) on a document level (atomic
level).
• It describes a consolidated dataset from one or
more InfoSources. You can
analyze this data with a BEx query.
 Operational Data Store:
Advantages
• Overwrite function
characteristics of the data part
keyfigures
• Save data on a document level
consolidated or overwritten
cleansed
• Reporting
Drilldown from InfoCube to ODS object
Integrated in the Business Explorer (BEx)
• In contrast to multi-dimensional data
stores for InfoCubes, data in ODS
objects is stored in flat, transparent
database tables. Fact and dimension
tables are not created.
• Hint: The number of ODS objects that must be
implemented significantly depends on the
complexity of the scenario that is to be
implemented. Furthermore, an ODS object can
also form the end of a staging process. In other
words, an InfoCube does not necessarily have to
be updated from the ODS object.
 PSA / ODS Object /
InfoCube (Architecture)
 ODS Object Architecture
• Activation Queue
New data is stored in this table before it is activated. It
always has a similar structure to a PSA table. In other
words, the key is constructed
from the request-, data package- and data record
number. These requests are deleted from the activation
queue once all requests waiting in the
activation queue have been successfully activated.
• Table with the Active Data
• This is where the current status of the data is
stored. This table contains a
semantic key that can be defined by the modeler
(order number, -item, for example). Reporting
uses this table.
• Change Log
• During the activation run, changes are stored
in the change log. Here, you can find the
complete (activation-) history of the changes,
since the content of the change log is not
automatically deleted. The connected data
targets are updated from the change log if they
are supplied with data from the ODS object in
the delta method. The change log is a PSA
table and can also maintained in the PSA tree
of the Administrator Workbench. The change
log in turn has a technical key consisting of a
request-, data package- and data record
number.
End of ODS