After going through a lot of content (both offline and online) and doing deliberations we decided to go with SAS Data Surveyor to connect SAS Visual Analytics with an existing SAP ERP ECC 6.0 system to do reporting and analytics.   We have ordered for the following SAS products-   1. SAS Metadata Server 2. SAS Visual Analytics LASR Server Non-Distributed 3. SAS Visual Analytics   along with SAS Data Surveyor for SAP and this is for SAS 9.4   This was done with the understanding that the Metadata server would register the SAP Server using the SAP server details and then the Data Surveyor would expose the metadata of SAP Modules and then the ETL can happen.   Only recently i chanced upon the below link -   http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bidsag/61236/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003112411.htm   which although refers to SAS 9.2 but talks about SAS Management Console to register the SAP server and then move forward. This is frustrating !   Can someones please guide whether the Metadata Server approach would work or getting a SAS Management Console is a must?   Please help !   Thanks Chunky ... View more