Prabhu - You are at the right place
First of all ETL (Extraction Transformation Loading) is a framework. ETL is often an intermediate step to process data for data warehouse.
BODS (Business Objects Data Services) is an ETL tool only. Which delivers a single enterprise-class solution for Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Profiling, and Text Data Processing that allows us to integrate, transform, improve, and deliver trusted data to critical business processes. That makes it differ from other ETL tool in the market. on the top of it this has become a hot cake in the market for major data migration & data warehousing projects.
SAP BODS provides one development interface, metadata repository, data connectivity layer, run-time environment and management console enabling IT organizations to lower total cost of ownership and accelerate time to value. With BODS organizations can maximize operational efficiency with a single solution to improve data quality and gain access to heterogeneous sources and applications.
Some capabilities and benifits of BODS
Data Services helps to movement, improvement, government of Organization data.
1. Movement - It provides ETL capabilities of data from almost any source
2. Improvement - It cleanse, enrich, match and consolidate data from any domain
3. Government - It understand and measure the quality of data in support of data stewardship.
Now SAP BODS 4.1 is out and for more details around it you can go through below link
http://help.sap.com/bods
Hope above information help you.
-deepak
Bluesky
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