Reduce complexity of IT Landscape. Thanks to a single solution for data profiling and metadata management you free up your IT resources.

Collaborate more effectively. Increase efficiency and reduce data costs with an environment that enables business and IT users to collaborate easily.

Better Governance. Improve data management processes by using tools that support better governance.

Transparency. Enhance data quality with increased transparency into the reliability, origins, and lineage of your data.

Data profiling and Metadata Management. Improve information trustworthiness and reduce the risk of propagating bad data and consolidate, integrate, and audit your metadata from all relevant sources.

Root cause, impact analysis and Validation Rule. Determine the origin of data quality problems and how they impact downstream processes or information assets. Define data validation rules against data sources and apply rules continuously to monitor data quality.

Creation of a metadata business glossary. Promote a common understanding and acceptance of business terms and build a central location for organizing them.

Development of cleansing packages. Create and reuse the rules, patterns, and dictionary that comprise data cleansing packages.

Users. SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward provides business users and IT users with a single environment to discover, assess, define, monitor, and improve the quality of their enterprise data assets. Business analysts can profile their data, create and run validation rules, monitor data quality through scorecards and also catalog and understand the relationships of their enterprise data.

Licenses. This solution is sold by engine/CPU and the minimum requirements are 4 CPU’s. The clients have to buy SAP Application Business Analyst Users and SAP Application BI Viewer Users to complete the package.