Maximizing SAP Investments through an Enterprise Data Catalog

⇨ 74% of enterprises face challenges with data complexity, hindering their agility; integrating SAP applications with other systems is essential for overcoming these obstacles.

⇨ Informatica's Enterprise Data Catalog simplifies data management by classifying and analyzing data across SAP and other systems, enhancing regulatory compliance and self-service analytics.

⇨ Utilizing AI and machine learning, the Enterprise Data Catalog improves data visibility and governance, enabling organizations to maximize the value of their data assets and support SAP modernization.

Many organizations use SAP applications to transform their data into action in real-time. However, SAP research suggests, 74% of enterprises struggle with data complexity, limiting an organization’s agility.

To make an organization more agile, SAP applications, databases, data warehouses and business integrations, and analytics tools must work harmoniously. They should be integrated into an overall infrastructure that includes systems from other vendors. Complex infrastructure should also evolve to accommodate cloud modernization, analytics tools, and SAP platforms including S/4HANA and BW4/HANA.

Tools to manage complex data

An organization’s data management can come with its challenges such as quality, integration, security, volume, storage and more.

However, data management and integration solutions providers like Informatica can help companies simplify data management across SAP and other systems with tools like the Enterprise Data Catalog.

The Enterprise Data Catalog helps users to simplify data management by classifying, tracing and analyzing data, and enhancing modernization efforts, regulatory compliance and self-service analytics. It extracts metadata from an array of enterprise systems and allows organizations to connect SAP applications, data warehouses and business intelligence tools.

Additionally, with intelligence provided by CLAIRE AI engine, the Enterprise Data Catalog finds and identifies an organization’s SAP and non-SAP data requiring governance, then connects it with the correct business and technical metadata, creating an easily searchable metadata system.

Users can benefit from the system’s comprehensive data visibility and enhanced change management features by leveraging AI and machine learning. These features can maximize data asset value, support cloud services and drive innovation.

Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog provides users and organizations with the tools needed to leverage SAP applications to get the most out of their data.

In the new age of technology and exponential data growth, an AI-powered data catalog enables users to identify their data assets and leverage their full value. Thus, the Enterprise Data Catalog harnesses the power of AI and machine learning to support SAP modernization, increasing self-service analytics, leverage cloud services and achieve an intelligent enterprise.