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SAP ORD Made Simple: What It Does and Why It’s Crucial in your SAP Landscape + Purpose and Value
Explains Open Resource Discovery (ORD), the metadata protocol SAP services use to self-describe their APIs, events and entity types for discovery across SAP Integration SuiteSAP Integration SuiteSAP's integration service on BTP: Cloud Integration for orchestration, API Management in front of it, and an MCP gateway that serves a managed API to agents.sap official, btp, SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp and SAP DatasphereSAP DatasphereSAP's cloud data warehouse: spaces, modelled views and analytic models over data brought in or federated from source systems, with the business context carried along rather than rebuilt.sap official, btp. Points to SAP's @cap-js/ord@cap-js/ordGenerates Open Resource Discovery documents from a CAP model.sap official, cap as the reference implementation that lets CAP applications publish ORD-compliant metadata, the piece metadata publishingMetadata publishingDescribing a service to something other than a human — service metadata for clients, and machine-readable descriptions for registries and discovery.SAP and community, narrow by design marks as beyond the EDMX and CSN the core emits on its own. Shows how to confirm ORD support for a published API by checking its ORD ID on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub.
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