Impact your business with improved data stewardship and data integrity
Combine data profiling, data lineage, and metadata management to gain continuous insight into the integrity of your enterprise data model.
SAP Information Steward
Understand, analyze, and quantify the impact of data on your business processes to enhance operational, analytical, and data governance initiatives.
Bloor Research InBrief: SAP Information Steward
Learn how SAP Information Steward software, when assisted by an integration with SAP Data Services, creates an enterprise-ready solution that brings together a wide variety of data governance and governance-adjacent capabilities.
What is SAP Information Steward?
SAP Information Steward software supports data profiling and monitoring and information policy management. As the information governance layer of SAP Business Technology Platform, it can help you anticipate risk and drive better business outcomes.
Key Benefits
Maximize your visibility into data quality metrics
Gain a better understanding of data quality across your data management landscape,while accessing and analyzing metrics with intuitive dashboards and scorecards.
Enhance data governance with consistent processes
Improve enterprise information management initiatives by supporting analysts, data stewards, and IT experts with consistent validation rules and guidelines.
Lower IT costs and complexity with one solution
Discover, assess, define, monitor, and improve the quality of your enterprise data assets with data profiling and metadata management – all with one solution.
Key Capabilities
Information governance
Facilitate collaboration among data analysts, data stewards, and IT experts to substantially improve your enterprise information management initiatives and overall data integrity.
Monitoring of data quality
Get a complete view of data quality reports by using dashboards and scorecards. You can narrow the profiling results to a specific data set to better understand business impacts of poor data.
Data-related cost savings
Forecast the potential savings of improved data quality by running what-if analyses. Then, you can use this information to secure funding and support for your data quality initiatives.
Data profiling
Support governance processes that define data ownership in accordance with business needs, roles, and policies, while finding error hot spots where controls should be refined and adjusted.
Metadata management
Enhance operational, analytical, and data governance initiatives by automating the collection of technical and business metadata for your applications repository and dictionary.
Cleansing package builder
Empower experts to develop custom data-cleansing solutions for any domain to identify and address upstream causes of data issues and reduce the cost of downstream cleanup.
Data lineage
Help ensure your information is accurate and trustworthy by evaluating the merits of changes in your data structures and sources to lower risk and improve data quality.
Build a business case
Setting the foundation for enterprise-ready data governance
Learn from Bloor Research on how SAP Information Steward, assisted by an integration with SAP Data Services, brings together a wide variety of governance capabilities.
Leading the industry in data quality and metadata management tools
Explore the reasons why Gartner chose to rank SAP as a solution leader in both data quality tools and metadata management.
Data Governance at Corning Optical
See how practical, pragmatic data governance creates value at Corning Optical Communications.
Technical Information
SAP Information Steward is deployed on premise, and system and software requirements vary by specific customer scenarios.
Installation
Follow the installation instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.
Configuration
Optimize configuration of SAP Information Steward with this comprehensive configuration guide.
Integration
Find out how you can seamlessly integrate SAP Information Steward with your existing IT landscape.
Accelerate your move to SAP S/4HANA
Understand the makeup and quality of your data as you plan your migration to SAP S/4HANA with SAP Information Steward to achieve transparency into data accuracy and trustworthiness, anticipate risk, and drive better business outcomes.
Get Started
Jump-start your implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.
Services
Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.
Support
Help keep your SAP solutions running at peak performance with our IT experts and support services, including long-term plans, embedded teams, remote technology support, self-service portal, and innovation strategies.
Security and compliance
Focus on your business and customer relationships. SAP maintains data center, privacy, and product security standards.
Events
Get the most of your SAP S/4HANA implementation with high quality data
Tune in to our podcast to hear from our experts on the imperative of data quality as part of a data management strategy to help ensure trusted boardroom decisions and successful digital transformation.
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SAP Data Services
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SAP Master Data Governance
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SAP Information Steward Accelerator by Syniti
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