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SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Containing and Managing an  Explosion of Data

At the core of every data initiative is the need for clean, trusted information. Yet in today’s world of huge data volumes and multiple, disparate data sources, business users are challenged to har-ness and make sense out of chaos. As organizations grow, both organically and through mergers and acquisitions, such problems continue to mount. Ex-ponential growth in data causes CIOs to question how they can best utilize strained and limited resources. Com-plex tools require specialized, time- consuming training, driving demand for an integrated, flexible information man-agement environment.

Ensure Data Quality and IntegrationData quality and data integration capabil-ities serve as the foundation for analytical and operational initiatives. Analytical initiatives include data warehousing and business analytics, and operational initiatives encompass data migration, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) planning. Data tends to be tran-sient and volatile, residing in multiple areas and entering the information net-work from various sources.

Ensuring data quality within data integration and migration projects is fundamental for a sound information infrastructure. Yet highly complex solutions require specialized skills and resources. Often they are integrated loosely – or not at all. The results can be costly: employees waste time working on one-off tactical projects, which become outdated even before

full implementation, and a truly integrated enterprise-quality solution that shares a common environment and development is nowhere in sight.

Seek Agile Solutions and Timely Access to DataAlso imperative is the need to access data in a timely and efficient manner. Business leaders seek flexible, agile solutions that embrace speed, stability, and data quality while accommodating change. Rapid access to timely, accu-rate data supports confident decision making. Agile solutions are essential for ensuring adherence to government and legal requirements for data access and reporting.

Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services Software

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services software is designed to help organiza-tions run better. A trusted information foundation supports both operational and analytical data-driven initiatives with a single solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text analysis. The software lets you inte-grate, transform, improve, and deliver trusted data to support key business processes. It comprises a development user interface, a metadata repository, a data connectivity layer, a runtime envi-ronment, and a management console, so IT groups can lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate time to value. The software helps you maximize operational efficiency, improve data quality, and access heterogeneous sources and applications.

SAP® BUSINESSOBJECTS™ DATA SERVICESPROvIDIng A FOunDATIOn FOR EnTER-PRISE InFORMATIOn MAnAgEMEnT

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services software delivers an enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text analysis. The soft-ware allows you to integrate, transform, improve, and de-liver trusted data to support critical business processes and decisions.

Understanding the Impact of Changing DataKnowing the impact of changing data is essential to managing an effective infor-mation network. The software’s impact analysis and data lineage functionality enables instant traceability, so users can make confident decisions. They can cre-ate data quality dashboards that show the impact of data quality problems on all downstream systems or applications. They also can monitor and trend how well data adheres to governance rules and standards, once in place.

Complying with Government Standards and RegulationsBusiness and technical executives must maintain compliance with govern-ment standards and regulations. Stan-dard data-quality business rules across the enterprise provide trusted informa-tion and help guarantee adherence.

Achieve Operational ExcellenceWhether you require a single data quali-ty project or a tool that forms the foun-dation of your information management infrastructure, SAP BusinessObjects

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software can help you:• unlock the power of information by

providing access to relevant data and supporting critical business processes, regardless of data type, data domain, or data source

• Access trusted information with improved accuracy and greater confidence in data for your decision-making and business processes

• Achieve operational excellence and lower TCO by maintaining one application for multiple data manage-ment processes

unlock the Power of Informationuse the software to design and deploy projects quickly, and to address data quality and integration with one solution. Your users can manage data across crit-ical business processes and collaborate between business and IT, supporting a single project or a larger data gover-nance initiative. For a more complete view of business, the software delivers native support for free-form data, struc-tured data, and unstructured text data.

The drag-and-drop development user interface helps escalate productivity results. As people work within the same user interface, you can leverage their skill sets to build data quality and integration jobs. using a common metadata repository, developers can check objects in and out to promote development collaboration and drive standardization of data quality rules. Helping maximize time to market are prebuilt data mart solutions for SAP,

Oracle, and salesforce.com applications or prebuilt data quality management solutions for SAP, Oracle’s Siebel, and Informatica PowerCenter. The data marts help you deploy projects in weeks instead of months.

Access Trusted InformationSAP BusinessObjects Data Services software combines proven data quality technology with more than 30 years of development expertise. Armed with trusted data, business and IT decision makers are more confident that they are making informed, correct decisions. They better understand the impact that modifying data has on the information network, and they can share and moni-tor data quality levels and trends over time. Wide-ranging data quality fea-tures support various types of data, regardless of industry and operational domain.

With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, you can assess and improve data quality with a comprehensive solution that supports data within any industry, locality, or data domain, including customer, product, supplier, and material data. virtually all data – including free-form, structured, and unstructured data – can be processed and cleansed. Business user interfaces, designed to be intuitive, allow you to standardize, correct, and match data to reduce duplicate information and to identify relationships. Extensive global support comprises data quality coverage in more than 230 countries – including an exclusive partnership with China Post.

Data Services software is designed to meet your needs. The software can fit your organization’s requirements and scale, from small pilot projects to large enterprise-wide deployments.

A single solution equates to lower TCO. Dramatic reductions in costs and resources can be gained by installing, maintaining, and supporting one appli-cation. At the same time, you can accelerate your team’s production proficiency through transformations and object reuse. Just one environ-ment lets you achieve cost-effective integration and fast time to value with deep integration across the SAP port-folio and non-SAP systems.

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is compliant with Web services interop-erability. Its extensive Web services support forms a solid data foundation by providing the data quality services and data integration services that underpin your business applications. Multiuser development collaboration capabilities support a global and distrib-uted development environment. users can check objects in and out of a com-mon metadata repository for both data quality jobs and integration jobs.

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services features include:• Prebuilt data quality management in-

tegrations with SAP, Oracle’s Siebel, and Informatica PowerCenter, or with the prebuilt data mart solutions for SAP and Oracle applications

• A single data integration tool for the SAP netWeaver® Business Warehouse component for extracting data from SAP Business Suite appli-cations and non-SAP data sources

• Parallel processing, grid computing, and bulk data loading support to scale to meet high-volume needs

• Shared services with the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform for schedul-ing, security, and user administration

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services – The Time Is Now

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services supports data integration (physical), data quality, data profiling, data auditing, and unstructured data within a single product – one development user interface, metadata repository, runtime architecture, management console, security, and data connectivity layer.

The latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services gives you the capacity to: • Empower users to govern data and

define data standards through an intuitive business-user interface

• Extend data views with text analysis to analyze unstructured text data sources

• Assess and improve data quality with a comprehensive solution that sup-ports data within any industry, locality, or data domain – including customer, product, supplier, and material

• Provide instant traceability with im-pact analysis and data lineage capa-bilities, so users can make confident decisions

• use data quality dashboards to moni-tor and trend how well data adheres to governance rules and standards

• Reduce costs, accelerate product proficiency, and simplify your IT infra-structure using a single solution

• Achieve maximum user and developer productivity and ease of application maintenance through transformations and object reuse

• Achieve cost-effective integration and fast time to value with deep integra-tion across SAP software, the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, and non-SAP systems

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services – The Right Solution

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is your solution for delivering trusted data across the enterprise. Enterprise-class performance and functions allow you to address initiatives such as ERP, BI, data warehousing, data migration, and master data management. Embedded data quality services in your ERP or CRM application help ensure that data is correct from the start, so your downstream operations and business decisions can be made with trusted information. Data integration functions incorporate data from disparate sources for a broad view of the data, helping ensure that there are no gaps in your business planning.

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Summary SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services software delivers a single enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text analysis. The software allows you to integrate, transform, improve, and deliver trusted data to critical business processes. It provides a single development user interface, metadata repository, data connectivity layer, runtime environment, and management console – enabling IT organizations to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate time to value.

Business Challenges • Manage the ever-expanding volume of data within enterprises • Enhance collaboration, focusing on innovation rather than integration• Accommodate rapidly changing business requirements • Maintain data quality

Key Features• Broad application and system support – Access and integrate SAP and non-SAP sources

and targets • Native text data processing – unlock meaning from unstructured text data for increased

business insights• Intuitive business user interfaces – guide you through the process of standardizing,

correcting, and matching data to reduce duplicates and identify relationships • Data quality dashboards – Show the impact of data quality problems on all downstream

systems or applications • Maximized productivity and simplified maintenance – Transform all types of data, re-

gardless of industry or data domain, and leverage a centralized business rule repository and object reuse

• High performance and scalability – Meet high-volume needs through parallel processing, grid computing, and bulk data loading support

Business Benefits • Increased productivity and elimination of rework costs by using a single data quality

and data integration application• Strengthened performance through better-informed decisions based on trusted,

timely information • Enhanced business process efficiencies with access to one version of the truth across

the enterprise• Reduced risk and greater TCO by leveraging consistent, high-quality information

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