After you install Data Archive, install the accelerator for the ERP application from which you want to archive data. Each ERP application has a corresponding application accelerator installer. For example, if you want to archive data from SAP Application Retirement, use the SAP Application Retirement Accelerator installer. You install the accelerators in the root installation of the Data Archive installation.
An application accelerator contains a set of business rules that enable Data Archive to manage transaction tables used by a specific enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. The accelerators include entities and related metadata. An entity is a predefined logical grouping of related tables that correspond to a business object. An entity contains all tables that collectively consist of the business object transactions, such as the master data, transactional data, and application data.
You can install application accelerators for the following ERP systems:
SAP Application Retirement Accelerator
When you install the application accelerator, the installer adds the entities and all related metadata to the ILM repository. You can view the entities and related metadata in the Enterprise Data Manager. For SAP application retirement, the installer also publishes pre-packaged reports to the data visualization server.