We have come a long way from LSMW to modern ETLs.
I attended a late late night webinar on HCI-DS last night; very well presented and articulated by Ben Hofmans.
We have the below ETL -
BODS - primarily for one off - during the data migration phase of a project (on premise; is it cloud compatible?)
SLT - real-time data synchronization; on going activity (on premise and cloud)
HCI-DS (on premise and cloud)
HANA EIM (on premise now; will be cloud by year end)
All these products require "tunneling". Except HCI-DS.
SAP says HANA EIM is the future.
What are the best use cases for each of these?
Are there any matrices (things to evaluate would be SAP's strategic direction, and other factors like price, easy to install and use, cloud vs on-premise, efficiency etc) that would help a customer / systems integrator decide one tool over another for a given scenario?
Tagging Ben Hofmans on this for his advice.
Regards
Arijit