SAP provides mainstream maintenance for core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 software including SAP ERP 6.0, SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0, SAP Supply Chain Management 7.0, and SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0 applications and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA on the respective latest three Enhancement Packages (EhPs) until December 31, 2027. From January 1, 2028, all SAP Business Suite 7 core applications and respective SAP Business Suite 7 add-on products will enter the customer-specific maintenance (CSM) phase. SAP offers an optional extended maintenance phase from January 1, 2028, until December 31, 2030. This three-year phase comes at an additional fee on top of the maintenance fee. Details outlined in SAP Note 2881788.
Role of Table Index in Data Loading of Info-objects
In this article, an example of supplier data in BW is considered. Supplier data from several SAP systems (from table LFA1) or from non-systems are extracted. Standard data cleansing methods are utilized. Some of these could be de-duplication, standardization and enhancement. Enhancement could be an addition of a standard number, eg. DUNS. At the end of this activity there could be tens of thousands of records to be loaded. Since the result of this activity is a flat file, the data is loaded into BW as a flat file. If the info-object does not have a secondary index, the loading time runs into hours.