Understand, Analyze, and Quantify the Impact of Data on Your Business
See how SAP Information Steward software can help empower your business to understand, assess, analyze, and improve the trustworthiness of your organization's data and transform it into a strategic asset. Prenos dokumenta2 | 8
Achieve information excellence
Digital business transformation is changing the conversation about information. It is a shift from “data is
not my problem” to “data is everyone’s opportunity.” Organizations are looking for ways to embrace the
opportunity – specifically, by exploiting their information as a strategic enterprise asset.
SAP Information Steward software supports you in creating
the information excellence and discipline needed to drive
better business outcomes, going beyond just fixing data to
helping solve the information challenge. This data steward-
ship software provides data profiling and monitoring,
metadata management, and information policy management
capabilities. It helps improve collaboration among data
workers, business users, and IT. And it equips them to
understand, analyze, and quantify the impact of data –
and data quality – on enterprise processes, analytics,
and governance initiatives.
With SAP Information Steward, users can:
• Drive data governance initiatives across the enterprise
with visibility on data terms, policies, and standards as
well as data impact and lineage
• Monitor and share the trustworthiness of information
continuously to determine whether it is fit for use
• Determine the financial impact and quantify the return
on investment of data quality initiatives
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
Achieve information excellence
Digital business transformation is changing the conversation about information. It is a shift from “data is
not my problem” to “data is everyone’s opportunity.” Organizations are looking for ways to embrace the
opportunity – specifically, by exploiting their information as a strategic enterprise asset.
SAP Information Steward software supports you in creating
the information excellence and discipline needed to drive
better business outcomes, going beyond just fixing data to
helping solve the information challenge. This data steward-
ship software provides data profiling and monitoring,
metadata management, and information policy management
capabilities. It helps improve collaboration among data
workers, business users, and IT. And it equips them to
understand, analyze, and quantify the impact of data –
and data quality – on enterprise processes, analytics,
and governance initiatives.
With SAP Information Steward, users can:
• Drive data governance initiatives across the enterprise
with visibility on data terms, policies, and standards as
well as data impact and lineage
• Monitor and share the trustworthiness of information
continuously to determine whether it is fit for use
• Determine the financial impact and quantify the return
on investment of data quality initiatives
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
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A good data governance strategy starts with creating a
common understanding of data relative to your business.
SAP Information Steward provides the framework to create
and maintain a centralized glossary of standard business
terms, concepts, and information policies.
Metadata management offers an integrated view of meta-
data artifacts and their relationships across the system
landscape. Metadata can be automatically collected with
metadata integrators bundled with SAP Information Steward
for a variety of SAP and third-party systems and data
sources. Once collected and stored, metadata can be
associated with terms and policies to provide business
context to your information assets. In addition, data workers
can see the connections between metadata, terms, and
policies with associated data validation rules, quality scores,
and profiling results to maintain their focus on quality.
Establish context within your information landscape
Catalog the metadata across the system landscape
and analyze and understand the relationships of
your enterprise data.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
A good data governance strategy starts with creating a
common understanding of data relative to your business.
SAP Information Steward provides the framework to create
and maintain a centralized glossary of standard business
terms, concepts, and information policies.
Metadata management offers an integrated view of meta-
data artifacts and their relationships across the system
landscape. Metadata can be automatically collected with
metadata integrators bundled with SAP Information Steward
for a variety of SAP and third-party systems and data
sources. Once collected and stored, metadata can be
associated with terms and policies to provide business
context to your information assets. In addition, data workers
can see the connections between metadata, terms, and
policies with associated data validation rules, quality scores,
and profiling results to maintain their focus on quality.
Establish context within your information landscape
Catalog the metadata across the system landscape
and analyze and understand the relationships of
your enterprise data.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
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Another powerful aspect of SAP Information Steward is
the ability it gives you to perform data lineage and impact
analysis. Data lineage is used to determine the origin of a
data element as well as its associated quality level. For
example, the data lineage of a report allows you to identify
the sources of data for the report and trace how that data
was transformed prior to report generation.
When data quality is in question or changes need to be
made, you can run an impact analysis to determine
downstream effect. As an example, you can use an impact
analysis to determine what systems, reports, and users will
be affected by a change you are making to a given data
source or schema. The graphical views provided are
extremely useful in helping data governance teams expose
the root cause of poor data quality and understand how
and where data quality levels impact day-to-day business
operations or analytics.
Provide analysts, data stewards, and IT users with a single
environment to discover, assess, define, monitor, and
improve the quality of their enterprise data assets.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
Another powerful aspect of SAP Information Steward is
the ability it gives you to perform data lineage and impact
analysis. Data lineage is used to determine the origin of a
data element as well as its associated quality level. For
example, the data lineage of a report allows you to identify
the sources of data for the report and trace how that data
was transformed prior to report generation.
When data quality is in question or changes need to be
made, you can run an impact analysis to determine
downstream effect. As an example, you can use an impact
analysis to determine what systems, reports, and users will
be affected by a change you are making to a given data
source or schema. The graphical views provided are
extremely useful in helping data governance teams expose
the root cause of poor data quality and understand how
and where data quality levels impact day-to-day business
operations or analytics.
Provide analysts, data stewards, and IT users with a single
environment to discover, assess, define, monitor, and
improve the quality of their enterprise data assets.
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
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SAP Information Steward features dashboard and score-
card capabilities to help stakeholders monitor data quality
in real time and see how the data measures up against
defined data governance rules and standards. For example,
you can view data quality based on dimensions such as
integrity, uniqueness, conformity, completeness, and
accuracy and then drill further to see the profiling results
for a specific dataset or data field, enabling you to better
understand the business impacts of poor-quality data.
With this insight and understanding, the business can use
data with confidence.
Other capabilities supported include:
• Members of data governance teams can work together
without having to share reports through spreadsheets or
import data across applications.
• Executives, managers, and IT experts can view and share
information about data governance and data quality
metrics and track progress toward quality goals.
• Data issues can be addressed proactively to prevent bad
data from entering business processes or applications.
• Alerts can be generated when data quality falls below a
set threshold, including a snapshot of the scorecard as
reference.
• Business users can gain continuous insight about data
quality so they can determine whether data is fit to use
for the purpose at hand.
Monitor and share data quality metrics continuously
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits
SAP Information Steward features dashboard and score-
card capabilities to help stakeholders monitor data quality
in real time and see how the data measures up against
defined data governance rules and standards. For example,
you can view data quality based on dimensions such as
integrity, uniqueness, conformity, completeness, and
accuracy and then drill further to see the profiling results
for a specific dataset or data field, enabling you to better
understand the business impacts of poor-quality data.
With this insight and understanding, the business can use
data with confidence.
Other capabilities supported include:
• Members of data governance teams can work together
without having to share reports through spreadsheets or
import data across applications.
• Executives, managers, and IT experts can view and share
information about data governance and data quality
metrics and track progress toward quality goals.
• Data issues can be addressed proactively to prevent bad
data from entering business processes or applications.
• Alerts can be generated when data quality falls below a
set threshold, including a snapshot of the scorecard as
reference.
• Business users can gain continuous insight about data
quality so they can determine whether data is fit to use
for the purpose at hand.
Monitor and share data quality metrics continuously
SolutionObjectives Quick factsBenefits