SAP Information Steward

Gain Continuous Insight into Data

Speaker’s Name, SAP
Month 00, 2017

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Introduction
Organizations are missing opportunities for better exploiting information as
an asset

Discover and Share Data for Define Financial Impact of Drive Information Discipline
Better Analysis Data Quality Actions for Better Business Outcomes
From data is not my problem to From data conversations to From just fixing data to solving
data is everyone's opportunity business conversations data challenges

Driven by digital business transformation

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 Barriers to creating business-relevant information strategies for the digital
economy

80% of information leaders don’t clearly

understand the business objectives of their
information initiatives1

By 2020, 50%
of information governance
initiatives will be enacted with policies based on
metadata alone2

By 2020, 90%
of information governance
programs based on “citizen stewards” will have
failed to meet their declared objectives3

1 Gartner: Maximize Business Value With Your Digital Information Strategy, Jul 2015; 2. Gartner: “Predicts 2016: Information Strategy” Dec 2015; 3. Gartner: “A Day in the Life of a Information Steward” Nov 2015
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 Information excellence for a Digital Enterprise
Deliver trusted, complete, and relevant information

SAP HANA PLATFORM

Applications

Systems

Devices Migrate & Retire

Integrate BUSINESS
ANALYTICS
PROCESSES
Paper to
Digital

Files
Create and Associate Improve and Manage
Manage Master and Manage Manage Data Information
Data Content Quality Lifecycle

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How Can SAP Help You Achieve Information Excellence with

SAP Information Steward

 From the Leader in
Data Discovery & Stewardship
SAP Information Steward is best-in-class data stewardship software providing
data profiling, metadata management, and information policy management
capabilities. Easily monitor, analyze, and improve data integrity. Gain continuous
insight into the quality of your enterprise information. Understand the impact of
data quality on your processes – and enhance your operational, analytical, and
data governance initiatives.

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What is SAP Information Steward?

• Assess quality of data SAP Information Steward software can help empower IT and
• Monitor via dashboards
business users to collaborate, assess, analyze, and improve
and scorecards
• Create business rules
the trustworthiness of enterprise information
and policies
• Perform data lineage
Monitor and Define Drive
and impact analysis
share data business information
• Calculate financial ROI quality rules, terms discipline for
of data quality initiatives metrics and policies better business
outcomes

SAP Business Suite / Files

SAP application Database

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SAP Information Steward – Key Capabilities
Profile, Assess, Monitor, Manage and Analyze Data Quality

SAP Business SAP BW

Discover business glossary
Suite
1 and metadata. Formally
develop information policies.

Databases SAP SAP 1.Discover Define business terms,

HANA
Information
Steward 2 validation rules and cleansing
rules using profiling results.
Hadoop
Analyze 2.Define Enable workflow for data

BI systems 3 quality task ownership of data

assets.

ETL tools Monitor and resolve data

3.Workflow

Delimited Files
4.Monitor
4 quality issues with pre-loaded
templates

Analyze data quality using

Data Modeling
tools 5 business value analysis to
quantify financial impact.

Sources Data Discovery & Stewardship

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SAP Information Steward: Data Profiling
Point-and-Click Data Assessment with Zero Coding

With full drill-down to

record level

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SAP Information Steward: Information Policy Management
Simplify Process for Centralizing, Managing and Maintaining Information Rules

Create, edit and delete policy

sets and policy statements
based on user permissions
and roles

Associate or link objects

such as rules, terms, and so
on

Easily search existing

information management
policies

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SAP Information Steward: Create Validation Rules
Enforce Data Quality Compliance Against Business Requirements

One-click rule creation –

business user friendly (no
coding)

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SAP Information Steward: Easily Review Matches
Create Best Record or Survivor From Group of Matched Records

Business-friendly and workflow-oriented UI

• Review and confirm match results
• Create new match
• Create Best Record or Survivor record

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SAP Information Steward: Metadata Management
Open and Easy to Import / Export Business Terms and Catalog in Any Environment

Metadata Integrators SAP Information

BI Systems Steward
Metadata Integrators bundled with Information Metadata Centralized
Steward Repository location to view
SAP Software: BI Platform, Data Services, SAP BW, SAP and catalog
HANA, SAP PowerDesigner, SAP ASE, SAP IQ disparate
NON SAP Software: CWMXML (CWM), RDBMS: MSSQL metadata (data
Databases Server, DB2, Teradata and JDBC Sources
definition) assets

Other Metadata Integrators available*

Altova MicroStrategy Central
Borland NoMagic
CA
Repository
OMG
ETL COBOL Oracle
Embarcadero SELECT
EMC SPARX Systems
Gentleware SUN
Silverun Teradata
Knightbridge (HP) Tigris
IBM Visible Systems Corp
Modeling Informatica W3C
Tools Micsosoft

Other metadata integrators available via Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI);
http://www.metaintegration.net/Products/MIMB/SupportedTools.html
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SAP Information Steward: Data Lineage / Impact Analysis
Understand How and Where Data Quality Levels Impact Day-to-Day Business Operations

Impact Analysis for data impact

Data Lineage for data origins with

data quality level indication

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SAP Information Steward: Business Glossary
Maintain a Set of Standard Terms Used Across Sources and Targets

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Information Steward: Analysis & Visualization
High-Level Balanced Data Quality Scorecards with Business Value Analysis

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How Can SAP Help You Solve the

Top 4 Data Related Challenges

Common Use Scenarios
1) Data Warehousing and 2) Data Migration

Data Warehousing Data Migration

Information
Steward Information
Profiling
Steward
SAP

Profiling

Data
Profiling
Services
New SAP

Non-SAP

Data Warehouse

– Analyze condition of data sources  Analyze condition of data for migration

– Define business rules for acceptable data  Define business rules for acceptable data
– Monitor and track data quality  Reconciliation of migrated data assets
continuously Delivers migration of complete data
Provides accurate data for consumption
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Common Use Scenarios
3) Master Data Governance and 2) Centralized Information Policy Hub

Master Data Governance Centralized Information Policy

Hub

Information
Steward

 Continuous monitoring and reporting of  Framework for creation and maintenance of

quality of master data business policies and business terms
Ensures continuous data governance Enables easy access to organizational
policies and business terminology
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How Can SAP Help You Drive

Real Business Outcomes

Companies that have realized tangible business value

Lower
Annual spend for asset
maintenance by approximately 1% 25%
to 2% Reduction in data migration efforts

50%
Reduction in duplicate accounts

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Why do our customers choose SAP for trusted data solutions?

American Water
American Water provides drinking water
and wastewater services throughout the
country. Here how they’re using SAP
Information Steward to get clean, quality
information at the source.

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SAP Information Steward: Proven. Reliable. Customer Approved.

2,000+ 2000+ 90%

SAP Enterprise
SAP Information Steward Information Customer satisfaction rating
customers Management Service
& Solution Partners

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Summary
Value from information assets happens when data can be discovered,
defined, and governed

Discover and Share Data for Define Financial Impact of Drive Information Discipline
Better Analysis Data Quality Actions for Better Business Outcomes
From data is not my problem to From data conversations to From just fixing data to solving
data is everyone's opportunity business conversations data challenges

Business Glossary &

Data Profiling & Data Quality Information Policy
Metadata
Assessment Monitoring Management
Management

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Get Started with SAP Information Steward

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Alliander: Rapidly Improving Asset Data Quality
with Data Science Expertise from SAP
Company Objectives
Alliander N.V.  Improve data quality in the asset register, a central repository for all
assets – such as gas pipes and electrical cables – used across the grid
Lower
Annual spend for asset
Headquarters  Reduce maintenance costs and regulatory risks by completing maintenance by approximately
Arnhem, The Netherlands missing technical data, such as material or construction year, for all 1% to 2%
assets with high accuracy
Industry  Move away from purely rule-based solutions for managing the quality
Utilities of asset data that are time-consuming, unable to detect unknown

Products and Services

patterns, and require tremendous expert involvement
Better
Why SAP Planning of future workloads
Private energy grids and
 Combination of internal business knowledge with unparalleled data
installations
mining expertise from SAP to rapidly improve data quality
 SAP's Data Science organization uses data mining and R
Employees
6,700
programming techniques – a language for statistical analysis – to Higher
identify patterns, extract regularities from the data itself, and complete Data quality for accurate and
missing asset data automatically 100% complete technical data
Web Site
www.alliander.com Benefits
 Faster improvement in data quality
 Lower project costs as well as significantly less effort and fewer
resources for data quality management
 No penalties by satisfying regulatory requirements
 Better, more efficient planning for asset investments

“Ever since we learned about the data mining approach to improve

master-data quality proposed by SAP’s Data Science organization,
it has become a substantial component of all our data quality
projects.”
Rob Jansen, Manager of Grid Information, Alliander N.V.

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 Mentor Graphics: Improving Data Quality for Better
Insights and Business Processes with SAP® Software

Objectives
Company
Mentor Graphics Corporation  Simplify and facilitate data entry Better
 Increase customer data quality and governance Reporting and insights
Headquarters  Improve business processes with trusted data
Wilsonville, Oregon  Enable better analysis of trends and performance

Industry
High tech
Why SAP
 Cost-effective solution provided by SAP® software, comparing favorably to the competition in product
>50%
Reduction in
evaluations duplicate accounts
Products and Services  Native integration with Mentor Graphic’s existing SAP Customer Relationship Management application
Software and hardware
solutions for electronic
design automation
Resolution
 Standardized data entry processes and definitions
>8,000
 Implemented SAP Data Quality Management, SAP Data Services, and SAP Information Steward software and Duplicate addresses
SAP Process Integration technology identified and removed
Employees
>5,500
Benefits
Web Site  Higher data quality, enabling a single version of the truth
www.mentor.com  Improved customer service, organizational collaboration, and productivity through streamlined and connected
processes
 Better campaign and lead generation and improved accuracy of quotes, fulfillment, and forecasting
 Greater business agility with self-service functionality and up-to-the-minute reports

“Having high-quality data means business processes run more smoothly. And that’s not just a benefit for any
one group. It’s a benefit for the whole organization, which improves cross-functional collaboration for us.”
John Birchall, Manager of IT World Trade Solutions, Mentor Graphics Corporation

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 Maxim Integrated: Halving the Time It Takes to
Integrate New Acquisitions with SAP® Solutions

Objectives
Company
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. • Establish a single, standardized data platform across the organization 2,000%
• Speed up the integration of newly acquired companies into the business Reduction in picking
Headquarters • Ensure optimum data quality on an ongoing basis and packing times
San Jose, California
Resolution
Industry • Defined company-wide data definitions, policies, validation rules, and governance processes
• Automated extraction, validation, and loading of master data from legacy solutions into the SAP® ERP
60%
High tech Reuse of code between
application with SAP Data Services software data migration projects
Products and Services • Implemented rapid data migration to SAP ERP and the SAP Customer Relationship Management application
Integrated circuits • Established a framework for ongoing monitoring and remediation of data quality, and continual policy and

Employees
process improvements 50%
Less time to integrate
8,800 Benefits
acquired companies
• Increased data integrity and transparency across the business
Revenue • Improved accuracy of cross-company reporting, supporting decision making
US$2.31 billion (FY 2015) • Accelerated integration of newly acquired companies into the organization

Web Site Future plans

www.maximintegrated.com • Train more employees to use SAP Information Steward software and own the stewardship for each data
domain
• Continue to improve the accounts payable process, matching invoices against purchase orders up front

“Our vision is to create ‘One Maxim.’ To achieve this, we need common data policies, standards, and
processes. SAP solutions are helping us achieve this goal.”
Steve Bloomfield, Executive Director of IT PMO, Global Execution Systems, Maxim Integrated Products Inc.

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