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Data Management Solutions from SAP
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Information Assets
Data Management in the Digital Economy
Digital business transformation is changing the conversation about information. The digital economy is driven by data. To succeed, you have to make all your data fast, accurate, connected, and available where and when you need it.
Data management has never been more mission critical – or held more transformational promise. That’s why you need data management solutions from SAP.
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Conquer the Digital Economy with Better Data Management
Leveraging Information to Drive Digitalization
The digital economy depends on always-on data streams. Data-producing edge devices, for example, are proliferating at an extraordinary pace. That’s helping to drive an unprecedented increase in data volumes.
But many organizations lack the strategies and technologies to transform that data into value. And poor-quality data can cost your company plenty. That’s why the demands of the digital economy place a premium on effective data management.
Explosion of data
64.2 ZB
Of data was generated in 2020, with an expected growth of 23% per year by 2025.1
Disparate deployment environment
57%
Of companies polled in Gartner’s 2020 Could Data and Analytics Adoption Survey said they currently manage or expect to manage data via a hybrid approach using both a cloud service provider (CSP) and on-premises data management offerings.2
1. David Reinsel, John Rydning, and John F. Gantz, “Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast, 2021-2025:
The World Keeps Creating More Data – Now What Do We Do with It All?” IDC, March 2021. 2. Gartner, Data Management Solutions Primer for 2021, By Adam Ronthal, Ehtisham Zaidi, 26 January 2021.
The demands
of the digital
economy
place a premium
on effective
data
management.
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Achieve Real-Time Intelligence for Real-Time Business
Data in Motion Must Stay in Motion
In an era of unprecedented uncertainty and flux, data capture and analysis need to happen in real time. It’s no surprise that a growing proportion of business systems involve continuous intelligence built on real-time, context-relevant information.
Continuous intelligence combines data and analytics with transactional processes and other real-time interactions. Such “data in motion” becomes a key use case, powering:
  • Real-time, 360-degree views of customers for targeted offers and services
  • Condition-based predictive maintenance of machines to reduce waste and extend lifecycles
  • New capabilities built on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
  • Monetization of data and data-driven services to open new revenue streams
  • Continual reimagining of operations to identify and enable new business models
Organizations that can manage, govern, and apply their data at high velocity can realize
true business transformation.
Organizations that can manage, govern, and apply their data at high velocity can realize true business transformation.
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Efficiency through automation
45%
Through 2022, manual data management tasks will be reduced by 45% through the addition of machine learning and automated service-level management.4
Revenue opportunities
46%
Greater revenue growth for organizations that view information as a strategic asset6
Optimized delivery
20%
By 2023, AI-enabled automation in data management and integration will reduce the need for IT specialists by 20%.5
4., 5. Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools, Ehtisham Zaidi, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, Eric Thoo, Nina Showell, Updated 9 November 2021, Published 25 August 2021.
6. SAP Performance Benchmarking. SAP cannot guarantee the financial impact of using our solutions. Metrics illustrate potential value. Every use case must be analyzed individually to determine its potential return on investment.
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Accelerate Your Data Journey with
SAP S/4HANA and Data Management Solutions from SAP
SAP S/4HANA is integrated Intelligent ERP that leverages in-memory speed and AI to optimize your information landscape. Advancing to
SAP S/4HANA is the perfect opportunity to reimagine your data landscape and data-centered processes.
Data management solutions from SAP empower you to take control of your data now. As a result, your move to SAP S/4HANA can proceed with higher speed, efficiency, and effectiveness. You’ll have greater opportunities to achieve the results you want – and reach for continually higher levels of performance. You’ll be equipped to transform traditional operations into a digital business backed using the power of SAP S/4HANA.
Traditional Business   Optimized by SAP S/4HANA
Mass market Personalized, smart products and services
Equipment based Service driven
Disconnected Consumer-direct, connected channels
OEM only Recognized brands
Efficiency oriented Resilient and continuous
Point to point Multienterprise orchestration
Reactive Proactive end to end
Advancing to
SAP S/4HANA
is the perfect
opportunity to
reimagine your
data landscape
and data-centered
processes.
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Realize Your Real-Time Advantages
The Opportunity Is in the Data
Information plays a starring role in the advantages you want SAP S/4HANA to deliver. That’s why it’s important to address data management up front. With effective assessment, design, planning, and execution, you can leverage data to optimize returns on SAP S/4HANA.
After all, data feeds intelligence, and intelligence drives process automation and product innovation. When you use your data assets most effectively, you can achieve your desired outcomes faster and with less risk. You’re then positioned to take advantage of SAP S/4HANA to:
  • Consolidate multiple instances of SAP and third-party applications
  • Eliminate time, cost, and resources to maintain redundant and obsolete systems
  • Simplify and accelerate data migration
  • Gain a single, trusted view of your data across domains
  • Drive more efficient business processes
  • Achieve reliable AI and analytics
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Data Management Delivers for Every Role
Data management solutions from SAP can drive tangible results.7
CEO: Reimagine corporate strategy
10%–20%
Increase in revenue from new offerings
10%–20%
Improvement in
customer satisfaction
CIO: Achieve continuous innovation
75%
Lower total cost of ownership
50%
Reduction in data footprint
10%–40%
Increase in productivity
CFO: Make fast, accurate decisions
40%–50%
Less time spent on period-end close
40%–50%
Reduction in risk and compliance costs
Supply chain: Optimize manufacturing
10%–15%
Lower logistics costs

Up to 10%
Reduction in manufacturing costs
Employees: Provide real customer value
60%–70%
Less time spent on invoice processing
10%–30%
Improvement in
on-time delivery

7. SAP Performance Benchmarking. SAP cannot guarantee the financial impact of using our solutions. Metrics illustrate potential value. Every use case must be analyzed individually to determine its potential return on investment.
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Your Road Map to SAP S/4HANA and Data Optimization
Accelerate Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA
Extract, transform,
cleanse, and
migrate data
Consolidate and
govern master data
Securely archive
information and
retire legacy systems
Keep the core clean as
you migrate
Ensure optimal operational
performance and analytical
accuracy
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As you advance to SAP S/4HANA, you want to achieve key returns on investment:
  • Consolidate disparate ERP systems
  • Enable existing data and custom applications from SAP Business Suite applications to benefit from in-memory ERP
  • Integrate with third-party applications
  • Deliver the functionality, performance, and security users expect

SAP offers innovative solutions for intelligent data management to help you achieve these goals:

Check out these additional data management resources from SAP:
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Crush Your Migration to SAP S/4HANA
Faster, Cheaper, Better
Your goal in advancing to SAP S/4HANA isn’t simply to move data from one ERP system to another. To achieve the best results, you need to prepare your data, migrate effectively, and then innovate for the outcomes you desire.
Applying this three-step approach, you can streamline and automate data migration. You can also minimize downtime as you cut over to your new environment. Your migration will move forward faster, more predictably, and with lower costs. And you’ll be positioned to achieve your transformation goals, such as reimagined business processes and reliable AI and analytics.
Prepare
 Simplify your
data and system
landscape.
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Migrate
Enable smart and
efficient data
migration, from
design to execution.
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Innovate
 Manage and
govern the
information flow.
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Leveraging Information Assets for True Business Transformation
Around the world, businesses in virtually every industry are taking advantage of data management solutions from SAP. They’re gaining new capabilities to extract business value from information, creating the best brand experience, responding faster to changing needs, and becoming data-driven organizations.
Data Quality
Assessment
Understand your data
landscape before embarking on
your digital transformation.
Explore the
use case
Data and System
Landscape Simplification
Reduce your data and system
footprint while enabling fast
access to the data you need.
Explore the
use case
Master Data
Consolidation
Achieve consistent and trusted
master data to improve data-
driven processes and insights.
Explore the
use case
Data Migration
Simplification
Leverage a best-practice
solution to optimize data
migration and ongoing quality.
Explore the
use case
Enterprise Content
Management
Eliminate paper processes and
implement an archiving
strategy for better compliance
and efficiency.
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use case
Data Cataloging and Metadata Management
Build a unified data catalog to serve as a single source of truth about your data.
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use case
Data Integration and Quality
Access and exchange data between on-premise and cloud environments.
Explore the
use case
Hybrid Data Management
Improve data visibility with access to critical data across hybrid data landscapes.
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use case
Enterprise Data Fabric
Leverage your data as a business asset that delivers value to business users and customers alike.
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use case
Unified Data and Analytics
Turn raw data into positive outcomes with a single source of truth.
Explore the
use case
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Turn the Data Deluge into Informed Insights
Companies and markets are awash in data. Your first task is to translate that data to insights. Your second is to turn those insights into business value.
Data management solutions from SAP give you the tools you need to identify, gather, normalize, analyze, and make available the most context-relevant data throughout your enterprise. They also empower you to apply that data to achieving positive business outcomes. You gain the ability to:
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Craft Your Enterprise Data Strategy
Strategize Your Path to Becoming an Intelligent Enterprise
Effective data management begins well before you deploy a solution. To truly create value from your data assets, you need to design, plan, and execute a strategy for success.
An enterprise data strategy is a business-prioritized, comprehensive road map of data-dependent capabilities that lead to outcome-driven transformation. Such a strategy enables you to not only implement a technology road map but also to secure executive sponsorship, build funding models, effect enterprise-wide change, and establish success metrics.
In fact, an effective data strategy involves more than just data-driven operations. It’s about becoming an intelligent enterprise equipped to compete and win in the digital economy.
Intelligent enterprises harness the power of all their information assets. They continually strive for information excellence. And they leverage information to drive new innovations.
Intelligent enterprises harness the
power of all their information assets.
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Orchestrate
 Harness the power
of your information
assets.
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Advocate
 Commit to
achieving
information
excellence.
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Accelerate
 Leverage
information as
an innovation
catalyst.
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Explore the Technology
Data Management Solutions from SAP
Innovative software from SAP empowers you to efficiently and effectively manage your enterprise data. You gain rich capabilities to optimize analytics, achieve new insights, and improve business outcomes.
Data management solutions from SAP provide a solid foundation for data-driven intelligence. You have the tools you need to manage, govern, integrate, and take full advantage of your enterprise data. So you can drive analytics, feed intelligent algorithms, and make strategic decisions with confidence.
Learn about key aspects of data management and the SAP solutions that help you master them.
Data management solutions from SAP provide a solid foundation for data-driven intelligence.
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Enterprise Data Fabric
Propel the business
forward with trusted
data-driven processes,
turning distributed
data sprawls into
vital business insights.
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Master Data
Management
Fuel your business with
ready-to-use, trusted
master data.
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Data
Governance
Manage your
information as a
strategic enterprise
asset.
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Data Quality and Integration
Integrate, transform,
and improve your
enterprise data.
Learn more
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Achieve Business Value
Always-On Access, Actionable Insights
Data management solutions from SAP help you turn data into business value. They enable you to empower your organization with controlled access to the information it needs, analyzing and acting on a single version of the truth. With data management solutions from SAP, you can:
Run data anywhere
Modernize your data stores with flexible deployment options, tailored data centers, and certified appliance configurations.
Reduce data redundancy
Virtualize data access and analyze live data on a single platform for transanalytic applications.
Orchestrate data
Accelerate data use with end-to-end, automated, and reusable pipelines for intelligent and trustworthy in-context data.
Improve data visibility
Create superior user experiences with a unified metadata catalog and centralized graphical user interface for better data visibility and privacy.
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Why Data Management Solutions from SAP?
A Recognized Leader
A comprehensive data management
portfolio to meet
your business needs
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Innovative and
Integrated
Dynamic
intelligent technology
and open integration
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Ecosystem Enabled
A vast, global
partner ecosystem
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Results Driven
Solutions that deliver
real-world impact
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Data management solutions from SAP help you
turn data into business value.
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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Information Assets
Learn more about data management solutions from SAP:
Bookmark this site and visit it frequently to check for new real-world use cases of data management solutions from SAP.
You can also download an abbreviated PDF version.
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Data Quality Assessment
Provide Proactive Assurance of High-Quality Data
AT A GLANCE
A multinational retailer is seeking to gain a better understanding of its data landscape before advancing to SAP S/4HANA and a digital transformation. The company needs to identify potential gaps in data makeup and quality to meet new system requirements. It also wants to predict the effectiveness and accuracy of future business processes and analytics to achieve a successful transformation.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Unknown and varied data standards across systems
  • Difficulty mapping to new system requirements
  • Lack of insight into data quality
  • Perceived high risk of data migration and transformation
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Use the SAP Information Steward to understand the makeup and quality of enterprise data assets
  • Establish data standards required to advance to SAP S/4HANA
  • Assess data against standards to see where cleansing and transformation should occur
  • Leverage new insights to prepare data for migration
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Achieve strong data
validation
Ensure high-quality,
business-ready data
Decrease risk to
data migration
Accelerate a live launch
on SAP S/4HANA
Establish a foundation
for future data
governance initiatives
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Watch this informative video to see how to
analyze and improve data integrity with
SAP Information Steward.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Data and System Landscape Simplification
Rightsize Your Data and System Footprint
AT A GLANCE
An international provider of business process outsourcing has embarked on business transformation supported by migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. While sizing the move, it identifies more than 20 years of unarchived data and multiple legacy systems. It needs to dramatically shrink its data and system footprint while ensuring fast access to information required for regulatory compliance. The company leverages data archiving and system decommissioning to lower risk and cost while complying with regulations. It also archives and purges data that has reached its end of purpose, achieving more-effective data governance.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Risk and complexity for moving more than 20 years of data and documentation
  • Large number of aging legacy systems from acquisitions and restructuring
  • Ongoing storage, administration, and maintenance costs
  • Need to ensure access to data for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
HCM = human capital management
PLM = product lifecycle management
SCM = supply chain management
SRM = supplier relationship management
DRM = distributor and reseller management
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Shut down legacy systems using SAP Information Lifecycle Management
  • Securely move inactive data to long-term, less-expensive storage
  • Move data required for regulatory compliance to a compressed central warehouse
  • Establish long-term information lifecycle management, with automated data retention and deletion
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Reduce the scope, complexity,
and total cost of migration
Decrease enterprise data on
SAP HANA, lowering costs
for hardware and hosting in the cloud
as well as backup
Eliminate unnecessary time, cost,
and resources for maintaining
redundant systems
Implement secure, easily
accessible content archiving
Adopt a flexible, automated
approach to information
lifecycle management
Achieve a smaller IT footprint while
ensuring ongoing regulatory
compliance
Lower operational and
compliance risk
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Watch this informative video on migrating to SAP S/4HANA, including how to retire legacy data and systems while establishing a solid, legally compliant foundation for comprehensive, enterprise-wide data management.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Master Data Consolidation
Prepare for Transformation with a Single, Trusted View of Master Data
AT A GLANCE
Mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate restructuring require improved and harmonized master data across the enterprise. That’s the case for a consumer goods company migrating multiple SAP ERP application instances and third-party ERP and CRM applications to a single implementation of SAP S/4HANA. The company recognizes the need to achieve consistent, trusted master data before advancing to SAP S/4HANA to realize its transformation goals of increased insight across its enterprise.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Master data stored and maintained in multiple, disparate SAP and third-party software systems
  • Varied master data standards across systems
  • Need for custom programs to replicate changes across the system landscape
  • Data and quality issues in legacy environments
  • No single view of customers, vendors, and materials for business insights
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Set up SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA to manage master data for legacy systems
  • Define, validate, and monitor data-quality rules to confirm master data and business readiness
  • Consolidate master data across multiple sources with standardization, deduplication, and enrichment
  • Extend master data records with fields required for SAP S/4HANA
  • Leverage prebuilt data models, business rules, workflows, and user interfaces to speed implementation
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Gain valuable early experience using
the new SAP S/4HANA environment
prior to migration
Increase the efficiency and
speed of data migration
Reduce project risk and cost
Establish one global instance of key
master data objects with data
standards
Deliver on transformation goals of
accurate, real-time insights across
key data domains
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Visit our Web pages on master data management for relevant Webcasts, videos, infographics, and customer success stories.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Data Migration Simplification
Gain Best Practices and Visibility from Design to Execution
AT A GLANCE
A manufacturer has embarked on a strategic transformation journey, consolidating numerous ERP systems on SAP S/4HANA. But the company realizes it needs better data management after the project misses key deadlines. In response, it implements a system-agnostic solution to work effectively across disparate systems and improve data migration and quality on an ongoing basis. It also creates a data management group to improve data quality, eliminate organizational silos, and control IT costs.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Financial and reputational risks for delayed launches in key phases of the migration project
  • Lack of end-to-end visibility and tracking of the project and process
  • Ineffective coordination and collaboration across various lines of business, including finance, operations, services, and sales
  • Inefficient processes and lack of data migration expertise and content
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Improve live launch timelines with SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti
  • Leverage intelligent automation, prebuilt content, and native integration with SAP Data Services
  • Support a collaborative process to align the migration with the target design process, methodology, and framework
  • Achieve end-to-end visibility and tracking to control data migration assets across multiple ERP systems, sites, and project phases
  • Reuse content and methodologies for future deployment scenarios
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Enable a successful migration,
with a complete and careful
migration plan
Avoid costly delays, project overruns
that would divert resources from other
projects, higher unbudgeted costs, and
lost ROI
Improve quality of business-
ready data
Reduce risk through strong
data validation, workflows,
and audit trails
Inform migration teams and
executives through dashboard
metrics
Achieve predictable and
accelerated live launches
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Read our informative guide on the eight essential steps to an efficient data migration.

Plus, try our innovative savings calculator to explore the estimated business benefits of SAP Advanced Data Migration.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Enterprise Content Management
Adopt a Disciplined Approach to Managing Your Information
AT A GLANCE
For an industrial machinery and components company, documents are among the most important triggers of business processes. So as it embarks on digital transformation with SAP S/4HANA, the company establishes two key goals: eliminate paper processes and standardize the archive landscape to decrease compliance complexity and increase operational efficiency.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Information silos that limit workflows, efficiencies, and data insights
  • Compliance risk for migrating data and content
  • High IT infrastructure complexity, resource consumption, and costs
  • Inefficient, manual, labor-intensive, and paper-based processes
  • Lack of secure, compliant archiving and fast, in-context retrieval of financial records
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Digitalize paper-based transactions across service processes by leveraging SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText
  • Integrate relevant content with core business processes running on SAP software
  • Standardize the archive landscape for paper documents, files on user devices, messages in personal e-mail accounts, and local digital archives
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Achieve a smooth migration, with
better management of
data and content
Reduce document storage
and discovery costs
Mitigate legal and
regulatory risk
Digitalize processes
Allow content access within
process steps
Improve collaboration and
process efficiency
Enable linking of transactional
data with associated unstructured
content
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Read our informative e-book to see how to leverage enhanced content management to operate with greater visibility, focus, and agility.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Data Cataloging and Metadata Management
Discover, Classify, Profile, Understand, and Prepare Your Enterprise Data Assets
AT A GLANCE
A national electronics wholesaler seeks to become more of a data-driven enterprise. But first it needs to get its data house in order. The goal is to connect data sources enterprise-wide – building a unified data catalog to serve as a single source of truth about their data. With the SAP Data Intelligence solution, it can discover data across hidden silos, organize it with meaningful classifications, and make the data available for analysis – all while maintaining high standards for security, governance, and data quality.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Increased demand for faster processing of larger and more diverse data sets
  • Resources required to integrate complex and diverse structured and unstructured data sources
  • Difficulties finding and operationalizing data to deliver business value
  • Protection of data privacy and compliance with regulations
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Deploy metadata crawlers to discover, explore, classify, and label data assets across the IT landscape
  • Build a business glossary with business rules and data ratings to maintain governance standards
  • Track data lineage, audit your data landscape, and use data anonymization and masking to protect privacy
  • Empower business users with self-service data preparation and enrichment tools
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Create a single source of
data truth about enterprise
data assets
Minimize data landscape
complexity and administrative
overhead
Drive new levels of data
quality needed for machine
learning scenarios
Improve security and enforce
governance with business rules
Generate more insights
from larger, more diverse
data sets (including dark data)
Build a foundation for
becoming a data-driven
enterprise
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
See The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020 report that recognizes SAP as a leader based on its scores in the “current offering,” “strategy,” and “market presence” categories. According to the report: “SAP enhances data management capabilities to support complex use cases.”8

8. Noel Yuhanna with Gene Leganza, Robert Perdoni, and Christine Turley, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020, June 10, 2020.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Data Integration and Quality
Transform Your Data into a Trusted, Ever-Ready Resource
AT A GLANCE
A global auto parts manufacturer knows that its competitiveness depends on trustworthy, accurate, and complete data for the products it sells. With SAP Data Services, it’s able to access and exchange data between on-premise and cloud environments, integrate quickly with diverse data sets, and do it all while driving data-quality standards with clear processes and transparent policies.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
 Exponential growth in data volume and increasingly diverse data sources
Siloed data trapped in applications, databases, and cloud platforms
Poor data quality, leading to incorrect decision-making, weakened competitive standing, and customer distrust
Difficulties harnessing the power of data and making sense of it
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Connect to and extract data from a variety of sources (structured and unstructured, SAP and third party) in batch mode or in real time, including for migration scenarios
  • Transform, cleanse, match, and consolidate data to understand facts, feelings, hidden relationships, and more
  • Scale from a single server to multiple servers to manage data volume
  • Use prebuilt bulk loaders to write out data to a wide variety of SAP and third-party system targets
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Access data for a broader perspective, gain contextual insight, and unlock value
Achieve excellence in data management, improve decision-making, and increase operational efficiency
Connect data to discover insights using intuitive tools to integrate operational, analytical, machine-generated, and geographic data sources
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Learn more about how SAP Data Services can help you improve the quality of data across your enterprise. For further details, read the solution brief.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Hybrid Data Management
Move Data Management to the Cloud
AT A GLANCE
A multinational media company needs to transition data management to the cloud to increase visibility into its catalog, better understand licensing potential, and maximize profitability. To move forward, the company uses the SAP Data Intelligence Cloud solution to extend existing investments in SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward. The result is greater visibility and access to critical data across hybrid data landscapes.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Increasingly diverse data sources spanning on-premise and cloud infrastructure
  • Inability to weave data from different sources into a single, enterprise-wide data fabric
  • Need to increase data management agility while maintaining investment in on-premise solutions
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Extend the reach of SAP Data Services across diverse system landscapes with SAP Data Intelligence Cloud
  • Enhance enterprise business processes with high-value data and insights from external systems
  • Reuse rules from SAP Information Steward and existing pipelines in SAP Data Services within SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to develop a repository for a shared glossary of terms for hybrid scenarios
  • Share metadata across applications to augment machine learning models
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Transition data management to the cloud at your own pace
Weave a comprehensive tapestry of data fabric that extends across hybrid landscapes
Safeguard past investments by reusing existing assets
Modernize your data landscape without disruption
Achieve the elasticity and agility enabled by cloud data access
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
To learn more about hybrid data management with
SAP Data Intelligence Cloud, watch this video or
tune into this podcast.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Enterprise Data Fabric
Turn data assets into business-enabling insights
AT A GLANCE
A large pharmaceutical company wants to unlock the business value of its distributed data assets. The goal is to increase resiliency, profitability, and sustainability. But one challenge stands in the way: data is located across different applications – all using a mix of processing engines. By leveraging an enterprise data fabric, this company seeks to turn distributed and complex data assets into business-enabling insights.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
  • Increased data complexity and sprawl that limits visibility and degrades trust
  • Inability to generate insight and value from data assets
  • Complex hybrid landscapes that make it difficult to intelligently process data
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Intelligently process your data by connecting to data anywhere and integrating it into your IT landscape with SAP Data Intelligence Cloud
  • Build trust in your data through discovery, cataloging, and continuous monitoring
  • Manage hybrid landscapes across distributed environments
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Gain new insights from high-value data
Reduce overall costs to integrate data across complex IT landscapes
Help deliver trusted data in compliance with your enterprise data strategy
Build a solution that facilitates collaboration among data architects, developers, and data stewards
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
Explore more business cases and learn how SAP Data Intelligence Cloud can help you establish an enterprise data fabric to get the most out of high-value data.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Unified Data and Analytics
Make Smarter, Faster Decisions Based on Trusted Data
AT A GLANCE
A global consumer products company seeks new ways of turning its raw data into positive outcomes for the business and customers alike. The goal is to use SAP Business Technology Platform to unify data and analytics by managing data throughout its lifecycle – from initial storage to real-time insight. With a single data management platform in place, it’s possible to reduce the friction of individual technologies and minimize the need to copy and move data within the IT landscape. Such a platform can support an end-to-end strategy for managing the data journey in a way that gives data purpose and supports informed business decisions.
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Challenges
 Overcome the problems of data landscape silos and complexity to create a single source of truth for enterprise data
Increase trust in data and drive the insight needed to make faster, impactful business decisions
Leverage existing on-premise investments while modernizing data management in the cloud
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Solution
  • Unify your data landscape with a powerful, integrated data management platform
  • Capture, manage, and govern your data to drive better business outcomes
  • Transform data into the answers that you need with fast, powerful analytics
  • Empower business users to experiment safely and securely with self-service tools
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Benefits
 Unite both SAP and third-party data with one unified foundation
Trust your data-driven insights to make an impact
Champion and take charge of your transformation to the cloud
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your data, and link analytics to business processes
At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Dig Deeper
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At a Glance Challenges Solution Benefits Dig Deeper
Advancing to SAP S/4HANA: Prepare
Optimize your data and system landscape for a successful migration to SAP S/4HANA.
Quality
Proactively ensure high-quality
data assets to drive business
transformation.

Consolidation
Gain experience in your
SAP S/4HANA environment with master data consolidation across sources and domains.
Simplification
Reduce storage costs and migration complexity by minimizing your data and system footprint.
Advancing to SAP S/4HANA: Migrate
Create a comprehensive framework and collaborative approach to streamline migration.
Automation
Control costs, reduce manual migration efforts, avoid deployment delays, and minimize downtime.
Intelligent technologies
Leverage natural-language processing and ML to simplify complex migration processes.

Reuse
Reuse knowledge captured in migration designs and assets.
Advancing to SAP S/4HANA: Innovate
Establish best-practice data governance, information lifecycle management, and enterprise content management.
Governance
Streamline processes to create, maintain, and distribute high-volume, high-quality master data.
Risk control
Control data volumes and manage risk with policies for automated information archiving and retention.
Integration
Deliver simpler, smarter, and more compliant workflows by connecting unstructured content with core business processes.
Become a Data-Driven Organization
Your organization generates huge volumes of data. But are your operations
truly driven by that data? Data management solutions enable you to:
  • Identify the data you have
  • Determine where it’s located
  • Understand its level of accuracy
  • Assess its legality for use
  • Evaluate its business relevance
Extract Business Value from Information
You’ve invested in capturing and analyzing data. But are you using your data
insights to realize tangible business results? Data management solutions equip you to:
  • Automate processes
  • Recognize market trends
  • Understand customer needs and behaviors
  • Deliver information to the people who need it
  • Innovate new products and services
Create the Best Brand Experience
Are you able to consistently leverage product and customer data to optimize
customer experiences and perceptions? Data management solutions empower you to:
  • Uncover untapped data
  • Translate information into insights with a 360-degree
    view of the customer
  • Establish and perform against meaningful metrics
  • Anticipate and adapt to customer demands
  • Deliver the experiences customers want
Respond Faster to Changing Needs
Competitive landscapes, customer demands, and disruptive technologies change
fast. Is your data helping you stay ahead? Data management solutions position you to:
  • Establish a data management framework
  • Get the right data to the right people at the right time
  • Achieve real-world advantages from intelligent
    technologies such as the IoT, AI, and ML
  • Nimbly adjust to market conditions
  • Seize new business opportunities –
    ahead of the competition
Orchestrate
Harmonize and coordinate your data for greater speed and agility.
Vision
Provide users with the right information in the context of the task at hand.
Velocity
Deliver real-time, continuous intelligence at the speed of business.

Value
Collaborate to extract value from the distributed data landscape.
Advocate
Establish a foundation of trusted information.
Relevant
Ensure relevant and reliable data for real-time AI, analytics, and insights.
Resilient
Improve operational efficiency through better information flow.
Low risk
Reduce risk and simplify
compliance.
Accelerate
Seize opportunities and influence business outcomes.
Disruption
Ignite innovation and new business models.
Drive
Advance your digital and business transformation.
Differentiation
Unlock your brand values and competitive advantage.
Enterprise Data Fabric
SAP Data Intelligence Cloud
The SAP Data Intelligence Cloud is a comprehensive solution for data management. As the data orchestration layer of SAP Business Technology Platform, it transforms distributed data sprawls into vital data insights, delivering innovation at scale. The solution supports hybrid data management, allowing you to transition to the cloud at your own pace. Integrate on-premise solutions, such as SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services, and safeguard your past technology investments by reusing existing assets and modernizing your landscape without disruption. Ultimately, SAP Data Intelligence Cloud enables you to take advantage of the elasticity and agility that cloud data management provides.
Master Data Management
SAP Master Data Governance
Consolidate and centrally govern the lifecycle of your master data. Improve the quality and consistency of your information across the enterprise. SAP Master Data Governance gives you a single, trusted view of your data. Simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce your total cost of ownership with a single solution for data consolidation and centralization.
SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data
Improve data quality with accurate and complete location information. Better contact data quality helps you eliminate returned mail and costs, improving both customer satisfaction and margins. SAP Data Quality Management software, microservices for location data delivers cloud deployment, address-cleansing and validation, geolocation-enrichment services, and built-in integration with SAP applications.

SAP Master Data Governance, enterprise asset management extension by Utopia
Centralize the management of your enterprise assets. Unify and streamline data governance processes. SAP Master Data Governance, enterprise asset management extension by Utopia delivers consistent, updated, and accurate master data, improves asset usage, and lowers costs through efficient parts management.
SAP Master Data Governance, retail and fashion management extension by Utopia
Build a solid foundation for your intelligent retail or fashion enterprise. SAP Master Data Governance, retail and fashion management extension by Utopia unifies, automates, and rationalizes the creation and maintenance of master data. You gain better transparency for intelligent insights and increased responsiveness for business agility.
SAP Asset Information Workbench by Utopia
Create digital twins for enterprise assets. Make a digital replicate of your physical assets, processes, and systems. The SAP Asset Information Workbench application by Utopia lets you identify potential problems before they occur, avoid downtime, and use simulations to explore ways of improving efficiency and planning for the future.
Data Governance
SAP Information Steward
Tangibly improve your business with data stewardship. Combine data profiling, data lineage, and metadata management to gain continuous insight into the integrity of your enterprise data. SAP Information Steward helps you understand how data quality affects business processes for better operations, analytics, and data governance.
SAP PowerDesigner
Manage the most complex information architecture. Apply powerful data modeling tools to visualize your architecture and manage the impact of change before it happens. SAP PowerDesigner software lets you automatically capture architecture layers and requirements, tap into a robust metadata repository, and share discoveries with your team.

SAP Information Lifecycle Management
Streamline your IT infrastructure. Automate data archiving and retention, plus the decommissioning of legacy systems, while balancing risk, compliance, and total cost of ownership. SAP Information Lifecycle Management optimizes data creation, usage, storage, and destruction. It helps reduce the complexity of IT landscapes and provides access to a wealth of data at lower cost.
SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management
Fuel innovation with comprehensive content management. Streamline business processes by digitalizing documents and integrating relevant content with transactions and workflows. SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText covers everything from document and records management to information retrieval and collaboration.
Data Quality and Integration
SAP Data Services
Unlock maximum value from your organization’s data. Transform your data into a trusted, ever-ready resource for business insight. Use it to optimize processes and maximize efficiency. SAP Data Services enables you to integrate, transform, and improve your enterprise data to make it available for real-time innovation.
SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server
Access the right information in the right place at the right time. Move and synchronize data in real time among various systems in the same network, among wide-area networks, and in the cloud. SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server delivers on-premise deployment, real-time reporting, plug-and-play configuration, and simplified integration with SAP software.

SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data
Improve data quality with accurate and complete location information. Better contact data quality helps you eliminate returned mail and costs, improving both customer satisfaction and margins. SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data delivers cloud deployment, address-cleansing and validation, geolocation-enrichment services, and built-in integration with SAP applications.
SAP Advanced Data Migration
Keep your ongoing data migrations on time, on budget, and on track. Combine technology and best practices to mitigate the cost overruns and conversion failures of complex projects. SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti gives your team a faster way to connect, prepare, and validate data before loading.
A Recognized Leader
SAP has been positioned as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® “Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools” (August 2021),9 2021 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions” (September 2021),10 and 2020 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions” (November 2020).11 SAP was positioned for both its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

SAP has also been positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020 report based on its scores in the “current offering,” “strategy,” and “market presence” categories.12

9. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Ehtisham Zaidi, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, Eric Thoo, Nina Showell, Updated 9 November 2021, Published 25 August 2021.
10. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions, By Melody Chien, Ankush Jain, 29 September 2021.
11. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, By Guido De Simoni, Mark Beyer, Ankush Jain, Alan Dayley, 11 November 2020.
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12. Noel Yuhanna with Gene Leganza, Robert Perdoni, and Christine Turley, The Forrester Wave : Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020, June 10, 2020.
Innovative and Integrated
SAP solutions facilitate scalable AI and ML, with agile development for fast implementation and tangible results. They also integrate smoothly, so you can reuse data models, business models, and validation frameworks. Data management solutions from SAP also allow for open integration with third- party software and services to support your entire technology stack.
Ecosystem Enabled
Our established relationships with more than 4,000 technology and services partners help you build, implement, and run at your best. Solution extensions and prebuilt content cover a wide range of data domains, including industry-specific use cases. Proven methodologies and best practices support fast time to value.
Results Driven
Forrester interviews with SAP customers reveal the three-year impact of content management solutions from SAP for a composite organization:13
281%
ROI
US$13 million
Net-present-
value benefits
$17.7 million
Present-value
benefits
7 months
Payback
13. “The Total Economic Impact of SAP Solution Extensions for Asset-Intensive Industries,” a study commissioned by SAP, Forrester Consulting, May 2020.