{"ref":"content:sap-ord-made-simple-what-it-does-and-why-it-s-crucial-in-your-sap-landscape-purp","page":"/content/sap-ord-made-simple-what-it-does-and-why-it-s-crucial-in-your-sap-landscape-purp","json":"/content/sap-ord-made-simple-what-it-does-and-why-it-s-crucial-in-your-sap-landscape-purp.json","generated":"2026-10-26","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"sap-ord-made-simple-what-it-does-and-why-it-s-crucial-in-your-sap-landscape-purp","title":"SAP ORD Made Simple: What It Does and Why It’s Crucial in your SAP Landscape + Purpose and Value","url":"https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-ord-made-simple-what-it-does-and-why-it-s-crucial-in-your-sap-landscape/ba-p/14338793","content_type":"blog","published_on":"source:sap-community","explains":["capability:metadata-publishing","artifact:cap-js-ord"],"summary":"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 Suite](artifact:btp-integration-suite), [SAP Business Data Cloud](artifact:btp-business-data-cloud) and [SAP Datasphere](artifact:btp-datasphere). Points to SAP's [@cap-js/ord](artifact:cap-js-ord) as the reference implementation that lets CAP applications publish ORD-compliant metadata, the piece [metadata publishing](capability:metadata-publishing) 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.","short":"Introduction to Open Resource Discovery metadata","author":"Yogananda","published":"2026-03-01","provenance":{"discovered_via":[{"source":"source:sap-community","channel":"api-management-tag"}],"first_seen":"2026-09-21"},"drafted_with_ai":true},"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Checked against the source","tier":"unknown","evidence":"nobody has checked it"},{"label":"Source reachable","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Age","tier":"good","evidence":"published 7 months ago"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Version","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no version declared"},{"label":"Moved since?","tier":"good","evidence":"no recorded change after 2026-03-01"},{"label":"Findings","tier":"good","evidence":"none flagged"}],"reach":[{"value":3476,"unit":"views"},{"value":0,"unit":"comments"},{"value":6,"unit":"likes"}]},"signals":{"views":3476,"likes":6,"comments":0,"metrics_at":"2026-10-25"},"series":null,"edges":{"authors":[]}}