SAP Enterprise Information Management-A Solutions Overview

SAP ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

A SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is the business activity of creating, cleansing, integrating, managing, governing, and archiving structured and unstructured data used by an organization. With EIM, organizations can integrate data and reconcile business information in heterogeneous IT landscapes to create a trusted data foundation for operational, analytical, and governance initiatives.

SAP helps companies with their EIM strategies by providing solution that enable:

• Enterprise data warehouse management
• Master data management
• Data integration and quality management
• Information lifecycle management
• Enterprise content management

 

Enterprise Data Warehouse Management

SAP can help you manage data at both an enterprise-wide or department level depending on your needs:

• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) allows you to manage enterprise data using a single organizational repository on a comprehensive and scalable platform.
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator) runs on specifically configured hardware from SAP partners and can help you improve the performance of queries, shorten batch times, and reduce administration tasks.
• SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts enable you to deploy data marts rapidly to accelerate the delivery of information from specific enterprise applications for business intelligence.

 

Master Data Management

SAP can help you manage and govern master data across heterogeneous IT landscapes:

• SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) helps you consolidate and harmonize multi-channel master data -- including product, supplier, customer, or user-defined data objects - using a single platform.
• SAP Master Data Governance for Financials helps you govern financial master data at its creation to deliver consistent data across general ledger software and facilitate regulatory compliance.
• SAP Data Maintenance for ERP by Vistex you maintain product, pricing, customer, and vendor master data with SAP ERP applications using an intuitive interface.

 

Data Integration and Quality Management

SAP can help you integrate and deliver data using flexible approaches (e.g. data federation or ETL). You can improve data quality using profiling, cleansing, and matching capabilities during or after the integration process.

• SAP BusinessObjects Data Services unifies data integration, data quality management, and data profiling solutions in a single product - enabling you to maximize operations with connectivity to SAP and non-SAP solutions.
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator helps you integrate and deliver structured and unstructured data from various data sources using extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) capabilities.
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Federator using virtual data integration to create a real-time view of data from multiple data sources so to support BI reporting and analysis.
• SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis reads and classifies text locked in unstructured data sources so that it can be incorporated into BI systems.
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management delivers market-leading data quality functions (standardize, parse, cleanse, enhance, match) to help you centralize the discovery, correction, and prevention of data quality issues. 
• SAP BusinessObjects Data Insight is a data assessment tool with powerful profiling capabilities to help you understand defects in the data and the impact of those defects on the business.
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Metadata Management and Information Lifecycle Management

SAP can help you implement an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy that balances the cost of storing information while ensuring accessibility to support business processes. With ILM and metadata management, you can manage the access, storage, and retention of data from legacy SAP systems, while complying with legal and regulatory mandates.

• SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management helps you consolidate and audit metadata from disparate data sources so that you can track data usage, data lineage, and change impact analysis to support data governance initiatives
• SAP NetWeaver Lifecycle Management helps you streamline your IT infrastructure by decommissioning redundant SAP systems by archiving business data to storage, while preserving auditing and reporting capabilities.
• SAP Document Access by Open Text provides you with a single point of access to SAP and non SAP data and documents via virtual content folders. 
• SAP Archiving by Open Text helps you archive data from SAP systems.

 

Enterprise Content Management

SAP can help you manage documents and records to improve communication and ensure data governance.

• SAP NetWeaver offers document capabilities to help you handle the creation, storage, and delivery of documents in a business context.
• SAP NetWeaver offers records management capabilities to help you manage related content associated with records and cases.
• SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by Open Text integrates with SAP Business Suite to help you manage unstructured content as processes and transactions supported by enterprise applications.