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Quick Facts Streamline Operations Through Top-Notch Data Management Reduce Total Cost of Ownership and Time to Value Aim for Operational Excellence
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Provide Accurate and Trusted Data Unlock the Power of Information Improve IT Effectiveness Simplify Operations with an Open Architecture Scale to Handle Very Small and Very Large Data Volumes Reuse As Often As Possible
Match All Data Needs Integrate Both SAP and Non-SAP Data Sources Integrate Structured and Unstructured Data Empower Both IT and Business Users Find Out More
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Summary Todays data explosion forces you to remove inefficiencies from data management processes. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software helps integrate, transform, and improve your data at the enterprise level, letting you costeffectively deliver trusted information to all critical business functions. The solution empowers IT groups with data profiling and text analysis tools to optimize operations, boost data quality, and gain essential access to disparate sources and applications. Business Challenges Manage increasing volumes of data and numbers of applications Minimize application silos to enable greater collaboration across teams Reduce the time users spend locating data and assessing its quality Free IT staff from system integration tasks and encourage innovation Key Features Full-spectrum enterprise information services Manage data through a unified metadata repository, data connectivity layer, runtime environment, and management console Text analysis Integrate unstructured data from external sources Instant traceability Help users understand upstream lineage and downstream impact Data warehousing tools Embed data quality steps directly into extract, transform, and load processes Business Benefits Streamlined business processes through a single solution to move, improve, govern, and unlock data Increased staff productivity through a shorter learning curve and powerful transformation tools Tighter cross-functional collaboration through an intuitive interface that lets business users contribute to defining data standards Improved quality of application data through integration of input from a wide variety of sources Lower costs through reduced customization and reduction in downstream data cleanup For More Information To learn more, contact your SAP representative or visit us online at www.sap.com/eim.
With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software, you can cleanse and enrich native data, with direct access to heterogeneous sources and applications, in a single software environment.
Your data quality rules are applied whenever data is created, updated, or moved, so you can trust your data to deliver accurate and complete information anywhere, anytime.
Improve IT Effectiveness
SIMPLIFy OPeRATIONS wITh AN OPeN ARChITeCTuRe The expert integration in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services supports all leading relational database management software, including generic open database connectivity (ODBC) products and IBM DB2 UDB, along with recent offerings from Hewlett-Packard Development Company, Oracle Corporation, Netezza Corporation, and Teradata Corporation. Connectivity is supported for both fixed-width and delimited flat files and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, COBOL copybooks, and XML documents. The SAP software supports HTTP HTTPS, , electronic data interchange, and simple network management protocol technology standards. And it offers rich connectivity to packaged SAP applications and to Oracle applications now called E-Business Suite, OneWorld, and PeopleSoft. SCALe TO hANDLe VeRy SMALL AND VeRy LARge DATA VOLuMeS SAP BusinessObjects Data Services supports native bulk and batch loading of data by fully integrating with loaders supplied with leading relational database management software. You can tricklefeed a data warehouse, for example. You can create a request-reply message broker to collect message requests in real time, route them to a 24x7 service, and deliver a reply within a user-specified time frame. You can respond to Webservice requests, listen in on messaging systems, and manage both log- and trigger-based changed-data capture. You can optimize your functionality for parallelism and grid computing through a scalable, high-performance extract, transform, and load (ETL) engine. This mechanism uses the same repository, user interface, and engine to perform both classic loading and data quality management. ReuSe AS OFTeN AS POSSIBLe With full functionality for third-generation language in the software, you can write completely customized reusable transformations. If youve already created custom transformations, for example, as stored procedures in a relational database, you can simply import them. In addition, since SAP BusinessObjects Data Services was built with reusability in mind, all objects are reusable, including jobs, workflows, and data flows. Typically, you design once and reuse many times, with changes effected globally, and you can copy your work to make duplicates. A difference viewer lets you compare similar objects, for example, a local version and a central version, and list differences between them. Built-in staging transforms and reusable data-store connections let you break apart logic and reuse components at will. And finally, you can create objects from scratch with an XML-based toolkit.
For both unstructured documents and partially structured data, a semantic extraction feature helps you identify key entities, facts, relationships, and inflections, along with tokens and other linguistic artifacts.
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