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Deliver Trusted Data and Deeper Insights

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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

Quick Facts
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.

Streamline Operations Through Top-Notch Data Management

Data is the life of your enterprise, and the health of your business depends on a sound data management strategy. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software builds a solid foundation for that strategy. With top-notch data services in place, you know that whenever your valuable information is touched, stored, or relocated, the underlying data conforms to the high standards youve set. Only timely and trusted information gets delivered to your applications and your users.
ReDuCe TOTAL COST OF OwNeRShIP AND TIMe TO VALue IT organizations everywhere are being asked to increase operational efficiency by lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) while accelerating time to value. The best place to start is your information management protocols. By popular estimates, the amount of information essential to running a typical business doubles every 18 months. Unfortunately, that information is often scattered across Web sites, tucked away in e-mail messages, sequestered in spreadsheets, and stored in data marts, data warehouses, databases, and enterprise applications. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software gives you a development environment, metadata repository, data connectivity layer, runtime environment, and management console designed specifically to help you locate, categorize, cleanse, and catalog all that information. You can design, test, and deploy projects using one intuitive user interface. You can cleanse and enrich native data, with direct access to heterogeneous sources and applications, in a single software environment. With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, you gain the support you need to interpret, transform, and distribute the huge portion of enterprise data that arrives in unstructured formats 80% according to industry lore. You can help ensure complete and accurate information for optimal, cost-effective throughput. In short, you can unlock, move, govern, and improve the data your business users need and improve your business efficiency. AIM FOR OPeRATIONAL exCeLLeNCe With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, you need to maintain only one data management application rather than a jumble of point-to-point solutions. This translates directly into lower TCO and a shorter path to product proficiency for your staff. The depth and breadth of interoperability with existing SAP and non-SAP applications tightens integration and improves profitability.

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.

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Provide Accurate and Trusted Data

Organizations often lack a consistent approach to data assessment, transformation, and quality management. And that can produce data errors that hinder decision making, limit business agility, and jeopardize overall performance. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services delivers a solution to help analyze, cleanse, and match customer, supplier, product, and material data structured or unstructured. Such services underpin your ability to deliver highly accurate, trusted, and complete information anywhere in the enterprise. uNLOCK The POweR OF INFORMATION Imagine being able to answer the following questions instantly about any piece of information: What is the data source? How was the data derived? What impact do changes to the data in the course of your daily work have throughout the organization? With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, you have robust functionality for instant traceability, including automatic analysis of upstream lineage and downstream impact, to help users make confident decisions that advance corporate strategy. You increase collaboration between IT and business functions. Business users gain insight into how changes to data can affect the information network as a whole. Your users are justifiably unhappy if you deliver unreliable, inaccurate, or out-ofdate data. But maintaining accurate data is a complex chore, because youre imposing a structure onto units whose values are constantly changing. And you know from experience how time consuming it is to fix data quality problems manually if they do arise. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services both prevents and automatically fixes data redundancies, inconsistencies, and errors within any application. 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. To bring users quick access to information locked in their enterprise applications, you can choose from a broad range of SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts packages. These are ready-made data mart solutions, with processes specifically supporting accounts receivable, accounts payable, sales, purchasing, inventory, and general ledger functionality. You can monitor how well data adheres to governance rules and spot quality trends through functions driven by industry-leading dashboards. By analyzing data levels over time and tracking trends in quality, you increase reliability, leaving your staff free to apply their expertise to initiatives that have greater strategic value.

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.

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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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Match All Data Needs

INTegRATe BOTh SAP AND NON-SAP DATA SOuRCeS SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is recognized as a leader in data integration and data quality by leading analyst firms. Thats already great news for all software landscapes; but for SAP software landscapes, theres even more. With more than 25 points of integration to increase efficiency, standardize processes, support growth, increase effectiveness, and minimize risk, SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is the preferred data management solution for SAP software environments. If your organization depends on SAP software to run its business, using our data services solution is the optimal way to manage your critical data in the most efficient, cost-effective way available. Whats more, SAP BusinessObjects Data Services can be used with a wide range of supplementary data management offerings from SAP These include . SAP HANA appliance software, the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) component, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator software, SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward software, SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts packages, and SAP Test Data Migration Server software. With SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, existing SAP customers gain greater IT efficiencies as a result of deep integration with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions and SAP Business Suite software: SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is the data integration software for loading data into suitable formats for inmemory computing. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services offers native access to content extractors in SAP Business Suite so that customers with SAP NetWeaver BW can use a single ETL tool to define all extraction, validation, and cleansing rules for loading data into the warehouse regardless of source. Other customers get native access to SAP Business Suite without going through the warehouse. Customers who use SAP BusinessObjects Data Services along with SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, and SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions benefit from shared services. These shared services cover user administration and security, offering a scheduling framework and support for access management across the entire infrastructure from a single point. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services integrates with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution to help users monitor jobs for CPU usage and memory utilization and check elapsed time with batch jobs. INTegRATe STRuCTuReD AND uNSTRuCTuReD DATA What if you could automatically assess and improve data related to any industry, locality, or data domain, including customer, product, supplier, and material data? SAP BusinessObjects Data Services supports literally all data including free-form, structured, and unstructured data that can be integrated, processed, and cleansed. You can harness deep linguistic extraction for both unstructured documents and partially structured data. This powerful textprocessing feature, based on 15 years of experience with semantic extraction, helps you identify key entities, facts, relationships, and inflections, along with tokens and other linguistic artifacts. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services allows you to incorporate traditional business information and new social information in a way that builds a framework of trust and context for the information. Your constituent organizations can leverage both historical results and current sentiment to add the why and who to every piece of information. This is all delivered and integrated with management reports, analytic dashboards, and mobile-device displays, so everyone can understand where the information comes from and how best to apply it. Wherever they are, your stakeholders can quickly and efficiently make the wellinformed decisions that drive business success. eMPOweR BOTh IT AND BuSINeSS uSeRS SAP BusinessObjects Data Services serves as a central repository for data asset analysis, metadata management, a business glossary, validation rules, and data profiling. It enables all members of your data management team to work together, eliminating the need to share reports via spreadsheets or import data between applications. Executives, managers, and IT experts can view and share information regarding governance and data quality metrics while tracking progress toward quality goals. A satisfying user experience is enhanced by concise analytic tools that help your staff understand the negative impact of poor data. Through a simple, visual overview of data benchmarks such as integrity, uniqueness, conformity, completeness, and accuracy both business users and IT personnel gain a better perspective on how the quality of your data affects the success of your enterprise. FIND OuT MORe To learn more, call your SAP representative or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/eim.

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