This SAP offering originally
from its BusinessObjects portfolio aims to provide a single environment to
discover, assess, define, monitor, and improve the quality of your enterprise
data assets. It is a part of SAP Enterprise Information management (EIM). This sounds
really like pure marketing. Well I realized it J Therefore
let’s talk about it in plainer and more technical English.
What is this software trying
to address is the data quality. Image how difficult is to get Month End Closing
(MEC) done for many organization when they have their data spread over x different
departments. Every department is using their “practices” to deal with the data.
Users sometimes do not know what definition of the data is, they do not know ability
to analyze data dependencies, and they lack visibility where the data is coming
from. At the event of MEC there is a lot of rush to consolidate eh data into
form that is needed to be. So this is where EIM is coming to: it has components
to handle Information Governance, Master Data Management, Content Management, Event
Processing and Data Service. Following the Information Steward solution it has in
particular these components:
Components and
capabilities:
SAP BusinessObjects Data
Insight – Data profiling
SAP BusinessObjects
Metadata Management – Metadata Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects Data
Services – e.g. Data Cleaning within Cleansing Package Builder (CPB)
SAP BusinessObjects Data
Quality Management – Data Quality (DQ) Monitoring
As Information Steward was
originally BusinessObjects products there are /were following versions
available:
Versions:
SAP Information Steward 4.2 (includes Data
Cleansing Advisor feature)
Useful links:
sap.com/eim – EIM homepage
SAP
Information Steward – homepage
SAP
BusinessObjects Information Steward – presentation from 2011
EIM-IS - SMP
component
