Fellow Vector

Yes, we grant every organisation a 30-day free trial. Head over to our licensing portal, Fellow Marble, and create your account.

Follow the steps to create your user and organisation, then head over to the License Store to "purchase" your trial. Then head over to the main page where you can select Vector and claim the trial as your user license. This is also where you can download Fellow Vector.

Fellow Vector is Windows only and requires at least windows 7 to operate.

Fellow Vector is natively compatibale with on-prem SAP systems as they come by default with RFC (Remote Function Call) functionality.

SAP has made mention of a RFC adapter for SAP Cloud, however we have not yet had the opportunity to test.

After installing Fellow Vector you can start playing around immediately. Manually connect to a SAP system and start exporting to CSV.

However, to make your experience better we would suggest installing the following applications:

• SAP Logon: this will allow you to register your SAP systems in SAP Logon and use them directly in Vector
• Microsoft SQL Server: using SQL will unlock a lot of additional features of Vector that make life much easier (SQL filtering, automatic horizontal segment merging, etc.). We suggest you start with the MS SQL Server Express edition on your local device.

Yes, we would suggest you use your QA or Pre-Prod environment first to test the effects of Vector on your system.

We have extensively tested the performance impact of Fellow Vector on multiple SAP systems and found it to be of minimal impact. However, each SAP system is different so we highly encourage you to perform your own performance testing before using Vector in production.

Definitely not! Fellow Vector ONLY uses read functions from the RFC library.

This is an important one! Your SAP user determines if you have access to the data you wish to extract and the RFC functionalities of SAP.

Your user should have the following "DISPLAY ONLY" access rights:

• Authorization Object S_RFC:
  • RFC_TYPE: FUGR
  • RFC_NAME: *
  • ACTVT: Activity 16 (Execute)
• Authorization Object S_TABU_DIS:
  • DICBERCLS: *
  • ACTVT: Activity 03 (Display Table Content)
• We also suggest you request access to SE16(N) to validate table row counts after extraction for completeness sake.

After installing Vector, perform the following steps:

• If not yet done, sign in with your Fellow Marble account
• Connect to a SAP system
• When exporting to a local or Azure SQL, connect to the instance. For CSV, select an output directory
• From the two options, select New Table
• Provide the table name your wish to extract (e.g. T001)
• Select the list of fields you are interested in
• If you wish to pseudonymise any field, click the "eye" icon next to the field name
• If you wish to use a slicer, provide the field and slicing values
• If you wish to use a filter, provide the filter details
• Click the little floppy disk icon to Save
• You can add more tables if you with or export this extraction to XML so you can reuse it later on
• Switch the mode on top from Prepare to Extract
• Click the play button to start extracting

After installing Vector, perform the following steps:

• If not yet done, sign in with your Fellow Marble account
• Connect to a SAP system
• When exporting to a local or Azure SQL, connect to the instance. For CSV, select an output directory
• From the two options, either select New Table to build a new list of tables to export or select Upload Profile if you have already built your list
• Once you have a list of tables ready, feel free to make adjustments by clicking on the table name
• Click the little floppy disk icon to Save any changes in the editor
• You can add more tables if you with or export this extraction to XML so you can reuse it later on
• Switch the mode on top from Prepare to Extract
• Click the play button to start extracting