SAP Offerings for EIM Updated

PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 18 — SAP SE announced new updates to the SAP solutions for enterprise information management (EIM). Now available, the updates offer enhanced support for Big Data sources, integration with SAP Lumira software for data discovery, as well as data protection and masking capabilities for better information governance.

SAP Data Services software and SAP Information Steward software versions 4.2 service pack (SP) 03 provide new capabilities focused on delivering results against top data management priorities including information governance, Big Data insights and simplified data integration.

• New data protection and data masking capabilities provides the ability to safeguard critical business assets and helps ensure organizations can protect sensitive data, implement privacy rules and be compliant with industry regulations.
• Enhanced support for Hadoop with HIVE table preview helps ETL developers to be more productive and enables users to load large volumes of spatial data using ESRI Shapefiles. This access helps organizations to gain valuable insights from all data, regardless of where it resides.
• Integration of SAP Information Steward with SAP Lumira offers a simplified user experience and provides users the ability to better understand and govern data during the discovery process.
• Integration between SAP Data Services and SAP Replication Server enables continuous capture of data changes from source systems coupled with powerful transformation capabilities to support real time analytics.
• Enhanced and faster troubleshooting for complex ETL jobs with the ability to isolate identified dataflow and workflow objects during data integration testing
• Geocoding expansion for Eastern Europe.

“Data can be like money in a bank vault — highly valuable, but useless if it cannot be accessed or utilized,” said Byron Banks, vice president, Products and Innovation Marketing, SAP. “SAP solutions for EIM help customers put data to work by making sure users have up-to-date and trustworthy information driving every business process and informing every decision.”