Data Management
Transform your business by making information ready for action
An agile business pivots quickly to respond to changes in trading conditions. By establishing an enterprise data foundation, you can help your organization adapt to change faster. Intelligent data management helps you run more efficient processes, increasing trust and controlling costs.
Data Management Framework
Run data anywhere
Modernize data stores with flexible deployment options, tailored data centers, or certified appliance configurations from reliable vendors.
Reduce data redundancy
Virtualize data access to reduce the need to replicate data and analyze live data on a single platform for transanalytic applications.
Connect and understand data
Deliver data-driven innovation across distributed landscapes, complex data types, and processing engines.
Govern master data
Build a comprehensive system of master data to streamline business processes and gain a single, trusted view of master data across the value chain.
Introducing SAP Datasphere
Learn about our new data innovations to unleash the power of your business data.
Data Management in the Digital Economy
Learn about key aspects of data management and the SAP solutions that help you master them
Data Management Solutions from SAP
- Gain rich capabilities to optimize analytics, achieve new insights, and improve business outcomes
- Manage, govern, integrate, and take full advantage of your enterprise data.
- Drive analytics, feed intelligent algorithms, and make strategic decisions with confidence
Product Overview
With a solid foundation for data-driven intelligence, you can make strategic decisions with confidence. Advanced data management tools help you manage, govern, integrate, and optimize enterprise data.
Data fabric
Propel your business forward with trusted, data-driven processes, insights, and innovation using data orchestration and scalable machine learning.
SAP Data Intelligence Cloud
Master data management
Gain a unified, trusted view of your master data and address digital, analytical, and operational challenges head-on.
SAP Master Data Governance
Content management
Connect your structured data and unstructured content to improve customer and employee experiences, increase productivity, lower procurement costs, boost asset ROI, and enable automation through machine learning.
SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management application by OpenText
Data integration
Integrate, connect, and process structured or unstructured data from SAP or third-party sources within Big Data or enterprise solutions deployed on premise or in the cloud.
SAP Data Services
Data quality management
Use accurate and complete location data in your operations, resulting in on-time deliveries and high customer satisfaction.
SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data
Data Management Solution Extensions
Extend your data management products with diverse solutions that can help you transform and enhance your business.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Improving the quality of business-critical data
Learn more about Döhler's transformation story leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform, including a 90% reduction in master data creation time.
30% increase in machine efficiency
Discover how Costain is making transportation projects more efficient, reducing emissions, and saving public funds with an intelligent infrastructure control center.
15%–20% productivity improvement
Explore how Adani Group improves productivity and increases visibility to grow the business with centralized master data management.
What are analysts saying about data management solutions from SAP?
SAP is named a Leader in enterprise data fabric
Find out why SAP was recognized as a Leader in the latest Forrester Wave for Enterprise Data Fabric for 2022.
SAP is recognized as a Leader in master data management
Learn why SAP was positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Master Data Management, Q4 2021 report.
SAP is positioned as a Leader in data quality solutions
Discover why SAP is recognized in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions.
Introducing a business data fabric
A business data fabric is an architectural approach that enables IT professionals and data consumers to quickly access, analyze, and act on their business data from any source.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.