[open-government] Extracting data from SAP (& other ERP systems) - advice welcome

Tue Jul 5 09:48:48 UTC 2011

Yes, Tim, that's my feeling too... mainly if we look at local gov, small and always busy!
Until we are able to create an easy-to-adopt, open tool able to automating the whole tasks flow for publishing raw data the issue will remain as an innovators' project, not a general aim for govs. We've been talking a lot on some tiny solution just to try... but never engaged seriously

M Mercè Rovira 
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From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Tim McNamara
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:56 AM
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Subject: [open-government] Extracting data from SAP (& other ERP systems) - advice welcome

One of the things that I have heard recently is something along the lines of "Okay, well I would really like to go about this open data thing - but how do I get it out of SAP?". SAP has its own COBOL-like language, which is fairly intimidating to application users. However, I'm fairly certain that other systems, such as SAS and other ERP offerings provide similar problems. 

Would anyone be willing to contribute some content about how to export data from these systems for the open data manual? There is some good content around[0], however it would be great to be able to produce some with an open licence.

Regards

Tim McNamara
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