SAP Enterprise Connect Data Access (ECDA) provides the middleware building blocks for connectivity between clients and enterprise data sources. Using ECDA simplifies the integration of non-SAP replicate databases into an SAP replication system.
You can use ECDA to connect directly to a database server. The DirectConnect component in ECDA acts as an SAP Open Server gateway by translating the Open Client/Server protocol used by SAP Replication Server to the native communication protocol used by the non-SAP replicate database.
See the Replication Server Options documentation.