Feb 26, 2024
•4 minute read
SAP EIM
What Is SAP EIM?
SAP solutions for enterprise information management (SAP EIM) is a category of solutions that helps SAP customers with support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship, metadata management capabilities, and a pay-as-you-go cloud data quality service. By managing enterprise data to deliver trusted and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation.
SAP EIM solutions include:
- SAP Information Steward helps you understand the makeup and quality of your data.
- SAP Data Services enables you to extract, transform, cleanse, and migrate your data.
- SAP Advanced Data Migration application by Syniti allows you to design, automate, and track your data migration project.
- SAP Master Data Governance makes sure your data is valid and consistent.
- SAP Information Lifecycle Management and SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText help you keep relevant data in your production system while offloading unused data to a secure archive.
What Is SAP EIM?
SAP solutions for enterprise information management (SAP EIM) is a category of solutions that helps SAP customers with support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship, metadata management capabilities, and a pay-as-you-go cloud data quality service. By managing enterprise data to deliver trusted and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation.
SAP EIM solutions include:
- SAP Information Steward helps you understand the makeup and quality of your data.
- SAP Data Services enables you to extract, transform, cleanse, and migrate your data.
- SAP Advanced Data Migration application by Syniti allows you to design, automate, and track your data migration project.
- SAP Master Data Governance makes sure your data is valid and consistent.
- SAP Information Lifecycle Management and SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText help you keep relevant data in your production system while offloading unused data to a secure archive.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
Hybrid Data Integration and Governance with SAP’s EIM solutions and SAP Data Intelligence. In this presentation, Nancy Ochs, Senior Application Developer, CSL Behring, relates how to use SAP EIM solutions and SAP Data Intelligence to carry out hybrid data integration and governance. She describes how to enable data orchestration, governance, and agile data sharing across on-premise and connected cloud landscapes.
An Introduction to SAP HANA Enterprise Information Management (EIM): A New Way to Move Data into SAP HANA.In this article, Ned Falk, Principal Consultant at HanaConsultingPartners (formerly a senior education consultant at SAP), details the steps needed to set up an SAP EIM task to replicate and manipulate a data feed to SAP HANA from an external source database. He also shows how to use the Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality within EIM to clean, join, and manipulate data via SAP HANA studio or the cloud.
Accelerate SAP S/4HANA Migration and Drive Innovation with SAP Technology Products. Reddy Venumbaka, Senior Director of Product Marketing, SAP, explains how to use SAP EIM solutions to migrate your data from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. He also discusses how to use other SAP technology products, such as SAP HANA, SAP Analytics, SAP Cloud Platform, and SAP Leonardo to accelerate your migration to SAP S/4HANA, simplify integration with SAP and non-SAP applications, and boost innovation.
Vendors that can assist SAP customers with EIM include: CENIT AG, Verbella, and Xsuite.
Data Management Tools in SAP EIM Portfolio – Part 2SAP Data Services is an enterprise-grade software suite facilitating seamless data integration, migration, warehousing, and quality management. It efficiently extracts, transforms, and loads data from diverse sources into a centralized hub for analysis and reporting, ensuring data consistency and precision across systems. This empowers businesses to derive insights from reliable data, aiding informed decision-making. In tandem, SAP Information Steward complements these capabilities by offering data quality assessment, metadata management, and data lineage features. It enhances understanding of data assets' quality, identifies discrepancies, and establishes governance policies, fostering data integrity and compliance. By illuminating data lineage and dependencies, SAP Information Steward enables organizations to bolster governance practices. Together, SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward form a holistic solution for optimizing enterprise data assets.
Data Management Tools in SAP EIM Portfolio: Part 1SAP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions are designed to revolutionize the way organizations manage their data. SAP Enterprise Information Management portfolio is a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to help organizations effectively manage and leverage their data assets. It includes various data management tools and technologies that address the key aspects of information management, including data integration, data quality, data governance, master data management, and information lifecycle management
This is the first of a multi-part series that will focus on various SAP tools relating to data management within the SAP EIM portfolio. The articles aim to provide the user with preliminary understanding of the various offerings available within the SAP EIM space. This article focuses on Smart Data Integration (SDI) and SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT).
Jul 24, 2023
•6 minute read
Hybrid Data Integration and Governance with SAP’s EIM solutions and SAP Data IntelligenceSAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward provide an enterprise-level foundation for ETL and data quality tools. SAP Data Intelligence complements and extends SAP Data Services to enable data orchestration, governance and agile data sharing across on-premise and connected cloud landscapes. Learn about state-of-the-art data integration and governance without reinventing the wheel of SAP EIM solutions.
Jan 20, 2021
•1 minute read
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Philip On of SAP on Enterprise Information ManagementPhilip On, Vice President, Marketing, Enterprise Information Management, SAP, joins SAPinsider Studio during the 2016 BI-HANA-IoT event in Las Vegas to discuss how organizations moving to a digital framework should think about their Enterprise Information Management (EIM) environment. Topics of this discussion include the definition of a digital enterprise from an EIM standpoint, managing information […]
Mar 24, 2016
•5 minute read
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