An open hub destination is an SAP object that you use to distribute data from the SAP BW system to other SAP and non-SAP applications, and third-party tools. You can create an open hub destination based on BW objects such as InfoCubes, DataStore objects, InfoObjects, and InfoSets.

An InfoSpoke provides the same functionality as an open hub destination. It defines the open hub data source from which you want to extract the data, the extraction mode, and the open hub destination to which you want to write the data. Effective in SAP BW version 7.0, SAP does not support InfoSpokes and recommends using open hub destinations instead. For this reason, Informatica also recommends using open hub destinations instead of InfoSpokes.

To extract data from SAP BW, you must complete configuration tasks on both the SAP and Informatica systems. You must trigger the data extraction from SAP.