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Data Management

With controlled access to a unified version of the truth, you can empower users to analyze and act on business-critical information.

Manage your data to maximize business impact

Leverage data as a catalyst to accelerate your business transformation, deliver more efficient and innovative end-to-end business processes, and establish a solid foundation for analytics.

Data Management Framework

Accelerate transformation

Reduce costs, accelerate time to value and minimize risk while creating a data foundation to keep you running at your best.

Fuel the business

Gain a unified, trusted view across domains, automate and improve business processes, and smoothly exchange master data across the entire business network value chain.

Strengthen your mission-critical data

Strengthen your enterprise data assets to propel the business forward with trusted data-driven processes, insights, and innovation.

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Introducing SAP Datasphere

Learn about our new data innovations to unleash the power of your business data.

Simplify your data landscape with a business data fabric

SAP Datasphere - and its open data ecosystem - is the foundation for a business data fabric. It equips any organization to deliver meaningful data to every data consumer — with business context and logic intact.

SAP Datasphere

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  • Accelerate time-to-value by automatically reusing semantical definitions and associations.
  • Harmonize heterogeneous data into a business semantic model of your diverse data landscape.
  • Access all your data across hybrid and cloud environments no matter where it resides.

SAP Master Data Governance

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  • Consolidate, govern, and manage the quality of master data
  • Automate master data replication and syndication throughout the system landscape
  • Use prebuilt data models, business rules, workflows, and user interfaces 
  • Support all master data domains and implementation styles in a single application
  • Deploy on premise or in a private or public cloud

SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management application by OpenText

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  • Personalize customer experiences across channels
  • Improve staff productivity through collaboration
  • Purchase smarter with an enhanced supplier network
  • Digitalize maintenance and repair operations
  • Adapt quickly to future innovative technologies
  • Enhance regulatory compliance

SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data

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  • Cut costs with cloud-based data quality services
  • Enable accurate location analytics
  • Improve customer satisfaction

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

HanesBrands Inc.

Learn how SAP Master Data Governance and SAP Datasphere support robust enterprise data management with high-quality, up-to-date data that is validated throughout all stages and available in real time.

15%–20% productivity improvement

Explore how Adani Group improves productivity and increases visibility to grow the business with centralized master data management.

100% visibility across the data lifecycle

Employees are gaining a greater understanding of the importance and impact of master data management and control

IBM consulting an SAP BTP story

IBM consulting delivers data management, data integration, and custom development with SAP BTP.

What are analysts saying about data management solutions from SAP?

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SAP Master Data Governance named a Leader by G2

See why G2 rates SAP Master Data Governance #1 with a user satisfaction score of 99.8%.

SAP ECM solutions by OpenText is helping organizations digitize their operations

Learn from IDC's business value study snapshot on SAP Enterprise Content Management Solutions. See the facts and view how customers optimized their document and vendor invoice management related operations and what the benefits were worth.

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SAP is a Leader in master data management

Find out why SAP was positioned as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Master Data Management, Q2 2023” report.

Achieve a high ROI with SAP data migration solutions

See how customers are realizing significant value by leveraging SAP Advanced Data Migration and Management by Syniti when migrating to SAP S/4HANA.

Create a path to data modernization

Learn how businesses can strive to be successful and competitive by modernizing their core data infrastructure.

SAP Let’s Talk Data Podcast Series

Stay tuned for new podcasts and catch up on topics you might have missed.

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Listen to this podcast series on all things data!

Discover key solutions and technologies that power SAP Business Technology Platform by listening in on conversations with partners, developers, and innovators across the SAP ecosystem. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a software application that helps organizations create, organize, manage, integrate, secure, preserve, distribute, and publish unstructured content, such as Word, PDF, PPT, XLS, images, videos, and audio files. An important element of an effective ECM system is its integration with business applications, allowing users to work collaboratively within the context of the business process across the enterprise. ECM allows organizations to categorize and structure content in a meaningful, searchable way, improving the user experience and providing important analytical capabilities to drive better decision-making. Robust ECM solutions also provide strong records management capabilities to help lower costs and reduce compliance risks. Software-as-a-service–based ECM applications are commonly referred to as content services.

Master data management (MDM) is the discipline of creating one trusted master reference (a single version of the truth) for all important business data, such as product data, customer data, asset data, finance data, and more. MDM helps ensure you don’t use multiple, potentially inconsistent versions of data in different parts of the business, including processes, operations, analytics, and reporting. The three key pillars to effective MDM include data consolidation, data governance, and data quality management. Consistent master data fuels operational excellence.

A data fabric automates the processing, integration, transformation, preparation, curation, governance, and orchestration of all data assets to enable real-time analytics and insights for successful business outcomes. It minimizes complexity by automating processes, workflows, and pipelines. It also streamlines data access to accelerate various use cases, such as providing a 360-degree view of customers, data science, fraud detection, internet-of-things (IoT) analytics, risk analytics, and healthcare insights. Our enterprise data fabric solution consists of capabilities from SAP Business Technology Platform, anchored by SAP Data Intelligence and SAP HANA (including SAP HANA Cloud).

The business data fabric builds on the data fabric approach to further simplify how organizations can deliver data to every consumer – with business context and application logic intact. While previous data fabric architectures successfully minimized data management complexity, most failed to keep the semantic context and application logic from the data sources. The full business perspective of data had to be manually rebuilt in parallel to deliver data in business terms. The business data fabric augments previous data fabric capabilities to retain and deliver the preestablished semantic context and application logic that come from the business data by default.

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