Metadata Manager:
360 View of your BI Deployment360 View of your BI Deployment
Maria Silva
Project Manager
Dunn Solutions Group
Vinod Nair
Technical Lead
Dunn Solutions Group
Learning Points
• What is Metadata?
• An effective way to manage your
metadata from multiple sources
• How to setup Metadata
Integrator to connect to various
sources that encompass your BI
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sources that encompass your BI
infrastructure
• Key functionality of SAP
Metadata Manager tool
Metadata:
Metadata is definitional data that provides
information about data managed within an
application or system• Attributes such as name, size, data type
• Structures such as length, fields, columns
• Properties such as where it is located, how it is associated, ownership• Properties such as where it is located, how it is associated, ownership
• Descriptive information
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Return on Investment
� Corporate data is a key strategic asset, metadata in no exception
• Metadata is everywhere but is it organized?
• Is it easy to access?
• Is it easy to find?
• Is it consistent?
� SAP Metadata Manager can provide � SAP Metadata Manager can provide
ROI in a few weeks:
• Centralize
• Organize
• Easy Access
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Identify Metadata
Identify Source of Metadata
Retire Metadata
Metadata Lifecycle
Capture Metadata
Apply semantics
with Metapedia
Maintain Metadata
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Best Practices
� Setting up a business glossary
(“Metapedia “)
� Impact analysis reports
� Data stewardship
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Installation
Metadata Management
Component
BOE Component it runs on
Administration and Explorer BOE Application Server
MM Repository Objects CMS
Metadata Integrators MM Job Server (Adaptive JS
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Metadata Integrators MM Job Server (Adaptive JS
& PS)
Relationship Server Adaptive Processing Server
Search Server Adaptive Processing Server
Business Glossary (Metapedia)
Metapedia entry is a term or description that defines a business concept in your organization.
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Conclusion
• Proliferation of metadata is a fact nowadays.
• We need effective tools to help us manage the overload
and provide value to the corporate metadata
• Business metadata is the hardest one to capture. SAP
Metadata Manager can help us merge technical and
business metadata through the use of data stewardship
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business metadata through the use of data stewardship
and Matapedia