SAP adds new EIM as it partners UPS for On-Demand Manufacturing

SAP has renewed its enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio with a series of updates aimed at helping organizations better manage, govern and strategically use and control their data assets. "By effectively managing enterprise data to deliver trusted, complete and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is always actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation," says Philip On, vice president of Product Marketing at SAP.

The additions to the EIM portfolio are intended to provide customers with enhanced support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship and metadata management capabilities and a pay-as-you-go cloud data quality service, he adds.

The updates to the EIM portfolio include the following features:

SAP Data Services – Providing extended support and connectivity for integrating and loading large and diverse data types, SAP Data Services includes a data extraction capability for fast data transfer from Google BigQuery to data processing systems like Hadoop, SAP HANA Vora, SAP IQ, SAP HANA and other cloud storage.

SAP Information Steward – The latest version helps speed data resolution issues with better usability, policy and workflow processes. One could immediately view and share data quality scorecards across devices without having to log into the application.

SAP Agile Data Preparation – To improve collaboration capabilities between business users and data stewards, SAP Agile Data Preparation focuses on the bridge between agile business data mash-ups and central corporate governance. It allows users to share, export and import rules between different worksheets or between different data domains.

SAP HANA smart data integration and smart data quality – The latest release of the SAP HANA platform features new performance and connectivity functionality to deliver faster, more robust real-time replication, bulk/batch data movement, data virtualization and data quality through one common user interface.

SAP Data Quality Management microservices – This new cloud-based offering is available as a beta on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, developer edition. It's a pay-as-you-go cloud-based service that ensures clean data by providing data validation and enrichment for addresses and geocodes within any application or environment.

"As organizations are moving to the cloud and digital business, the data foundation is so important," On says. "It's not just having the data, but having the right data. We want to give them a suite of solutions that truly allow them to deliver information excellence from the beginning to the end."

Also as part of its enhancement moves, SAP, along with partners such as UPS, are moving their vision for on-demand manufacturing another step forward by making the SAP Distributed Manufacturing application available to customers as part of an early access initiative.

SAP and UPS’ distributed manufacturing collaboration melds SAP supply chain solutions, Internet of Things technologies and machine learning capabilities along with UPS designed additive manufacturing capabilities and logistics networks to enable companies to tap into the advantages of on-demand manufacturing. The initiative, part of SAP’s Leonardo IoT portfolio, promises to deliver an end-to-end digital manufacturing process and network aimed at helping manufacturers leverage 3D printing technologies more broadly and efficiently to accelerate product development and fuel internal innovation, according to SAP officials.