SAP EIM

What Is SAP EIM?

SAP solutions for enterprise information management (SAP EIM) is a category of solutions that helps SAP customers with support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship, metadata management capabilities, and a pay-as-you-go cloud data quality service. By managing enterprise data to deliver trusted and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation.

SAP EIM solutions include:

SAP Information Steward helps you understand the makeup and quality of your data.
SAP Data Services enables you to extract, transform, cleanse, and migrate your data.
SAP Advanced Data Migration application by Syniti allows you to design, automate, and track your data migration project.
SAP Master Data Governance makes sure your data is valid and consistent.
SAP Information Lifecycle Management and SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText help you keep relevant data in your production system while offloading unused data to a secure archive.

What Is SAP EIM?

SAP EIM solutions include:

SAP Information Steward helps you understand the makeup and quality of your data.
SAP Data Services enables you to extract, transform, cleanse, and migrate your data.
SAP Advanced Data Migration application by Syniti allows you to design, automate, and track your data migration project.
SAP Master Data Governance makes sure your data is valid and consistent.
SAP Information Lifecycle Management and SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText help you keep relevant data in your production system while offloading unused data to a secure archive.

Further Resources for SAPinsiders

Hybrid Data Integration and Governance with SAP’s EIM solutions and SAP Data Intelligence. In this presentation, Nancy Ochs, Senior Application Developer, CSL Behring, relates how to use SAP EIM solutions and SAP Data Intelligence to carry out hybrid data integration and governance. She describes how to enable data orchestration, governance, and agile data sharing across on-premise and connected cloud landscapes.

An Introduction to SAP HANA Enterprise Information Management (EIM): A New Way to Move Data into SAP HANA.In this article, Ned Falk, Principal Consultant at HanaConsultingPartners (formerly a senior education consultant at SAP), details the steps needed to set up an SAP EIM task to replicate and manipulate a data feed to SAP HANA from an external source database. He also shows how to use the Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality within EIM to clean, join, and manipulate data via SAP HANA studio or the cloud.

Accelerate SAP S/4HANA Migration and Drive Innovation with SAP Technology Products. Reddy Venumbaka, Senior Director of Product Marketing, SAP, explains how to use SAP EIM solutions to migrate your data from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. He also discusses how to use other SAP technology products, such as SAP HANA, SAP Analytics, SAP Cloud Platform, and SAP Leonardo to accelerate your migration to SAP S/4HANA, simplify integration with SAP and non-SAP applications, and boost innovation.

Vendors that can assist SAP customers with EIM include: CENIT AG, Verbella, and Xsuite.

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