Create Datasets from SAP Business Warehouse in Domo Workbench and Build Visualizations of SAP Business Warehouse Data in Domo

Domo helps you manage, analyze, and share data across your entire organization, enabling decision makers to identify and act on strategic opportunities. Domo Workbench provides a secure, client-side solution for uploading your on-premise data to Domo. The CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business Warehouse links Domo Workbench to operational SAP Business Warehouse data. You can build datasets from SAP Business Warehouse data using standard SQL queries in Workbench and then create real-time visualizations of SAP Business Warehouse data in the Domo service.

The CData ODBC Drivers offer unmatched performance for interacting with live SAP Business Warehouse data in Domo due to optimized data processing built into the driver. When you issue complex SQL queries from Domo to SAP Business Warehouse, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to SAP Business Warehouse and utilizes the embedded SQL Engine to process unsupported operations (often SQL functions and JOIN operations) client-side. With built-in dynamic metadata querying, you can visualize and analyze SAP Business Warehouse data using native Domo data types.

Connect to SAP Business Warehouse as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

To connect to SAP Business Warehouse, set the URL property to a valid SAP Business Warehouse server base URL. The driver must connect to SAP Business Warehouse instances hosted over HTTP with XMLA access.

The driver supports the following authentication schemes via the AuthScheme property:

• None: Anonymous authentication, if available on the server.
• Basic: Set User and Password and set AuthScheme to .
• Kerberos: See the Using Kerberos section of the help documentation for the required Kerberos properties.

By default, the driver attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats.

When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.

After creating a DSN, you will need to create a dataset for SAP Business Warehouse in Domo Workbench using the SAP Business Warehouse DSN and build a visualization in the Domo service based on the dataset.

Build a Dataset for SAP Business Warehouse Data

You can follow the steps below to build a dataset based on a table in SAP Business Warehouse in Domo Workbench using the CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business Warehouse.

1. Open Domo Workbench and, if you have not already, add your Domo service server to Workbench. In the Accounts submenu, click Add New, type in the server address (i.e., domain.domo.com) and click through the wizard to authenticate. 👁 Connecting to the Domo Service.
   
2. In the DataSet Jobs submenu, click Add New.
3. Name the dataset job (i.e., ODBC SAP Business Warehouse Sales), select ODBC Connection Provider as the transport method, and click through the wizard. 👁 Configuring the DataSet Job.
   
4. In the newly created DataSet Job, navigate to Source and click to configure the settings.
5. Select System DSN for the Connection Type.
6. Select the previously configured DSN (CData SAPBusinessWarehouse Sys) for the System DSN.
7. Click to validate the configuration. 👁 Configuring the Source Settings.
   
8. Below the settings, set the Query to a SQL query:

   SELECT * FROM Sales

   NOTE: By connecting to SAP Business Warehouse data using an ODBC driver, you simply need to know SQL in order to get your data, circumventing the need to know SAP Business Warehouse-specific APIs or protocols.
9. Click preview. 👁 Querying SAP Business Warehouse Data.
   
10. Check over the generated schema, add any transformations, then save and run the dataset job. 👁 Save and Run the Configured DataSet Job (Salesforce is shown).
    

With the dataset job run, the dataset will be accessible from the Domo service, allowing you to build visualizations, reports, and more based on SAP Business Warehouse data.

Create Data Visualizations

With the DataSet Job saved and run in Domo Workbench, we are ready to build visualizations of the SAP Business Warehouse data in the Domo service.

1. Navigate to the Data Center. 👁 Accessing the Data Center (Salesforce is shown).
   
2. In the data warehouse, select the ODBC data source and drill down to our new dataset. 👁 Selecting the SAP Business Warehouse Dataset (Salesforce is shown).
   
3. With the dataset selected, choose to create a visualization.
4. In the new card:
   • Drag a Dimension to the X Value.
   • Drag a Measure to the Y Value.
   • Choose a Visualization.
   👁 Visualizing SAP Business Warehouse Data in Domo (Salesforce is shown).
   

With the CData ODBC Driver for SAP Business Warehouse, you can build custom datasets based on SAP Business Warehouse data using only SQL in Domo Workbench and then build and share visualizations and reports through the Domo service.