Feb 26, 2024
•4 minute read
SAP EIM
SAP EIM: Managing Enterprise Information for Trusted, Data-Driven Outcomes
As organizations seek to unlock the full value of their data, SAP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) provides the tools and capabilities needed to govern, integrate and improve the quality of enterprise data. SAPinsider expert insights on the SAP EIM portfolio highlight how EIM solutions address data integration, data quality, data governance, master data management and information lifecycle management for SAP customers.
What Is SAP EIM?
SAP solutions for Enterprise Information Management (SAP EIM) is a category of solutions that helps SAP customers with big data connectivity, data stewardship, metadata management and cloud data quality services. Key solutions within the SAP EIM portfolio include SAP Information Steward for data profiling and governance, SAP Data Services for data integration and migration, SAP Master Data Governance for data consistency, and SAP Information Lifecycle Management and SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText for data archiving and content governance.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
Enterprise Information Management: What, Why, Where and How provides SAP customers with a foundational overview of how SAP EIM solutions cover structured and unstructured data types, addressing the full spectrum of enterprise information management requirements.
A New Way to Move Data into SAP HANA with SAP EIM explains how to set up SAP EIM tasks for real-time data replication and manipulation into SAP HANA, enabling high-performance analytics on a trusted and well-governed data foundation.
Data Management Tools in the SAP EIM Portfolio surveys the full SAP EIM product suite, covering how each tool addresses data integration, quality, governance, master data management and lifecycle management for enterprise SAP environments.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
SAPinsider Expert Insight: SAP EIM Portfolio Overview finds that the SAP EIM portfolio addresses the key aspects of enterprise information management including data integration, data quality, governance, master data management and information lifecycle management across SAP landscapes.
SAPinsider Data and Analytics Themes for 2026 highlights enterprise information management as central to SAP organizations’ strategies for becoming data-driven and AI-enabled, with EIM capabilities underpinning trusted data foundations for analytics and AI initiatives.
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