To close the gap between strategy and execution, IT organizations must consolidate, cleanse, and efficiently manage all structured and unstructured enterprise information throughout the life cycle. Achieving this strategic objective establishes trust among employees that the data is complete, accurate, and accessible every time it is needed.

With software and services from SAP and Business Objects, an SAP company, companies are:

• Establishing trust in information by driving toward a single, virtual data source
• Delivering quick insight for collaboration and decision making
• Managing information throughout the life cycle to support governance and compliance

Establishing Trust in Information

SAP and Business Objects help you meet all your strategic business intelligence requirements on a single, open, and flexible platform, while ensuring delivery of the right information to the right people at the right time by using:

• SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management – Consolidate and manage master data from heterogeneous sources to support customer data integration, global spend analysis, global data synchronization, product content management, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Strategic data services – Manage master data throughout its life cycle, while supporting data governance, quality analysis, and consolidation.
• SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence – Integrate data from disparate sources via an enterprise data warehouse.
• SAP Accelerated Data Migration – Move legacy data into your warehouse with less effort.
• Data Integration and Data Quality Management – Integrate data, improve data quality, and make it accessible for both your business intelligence and master data initiatives.

Delivering Quick Insight

Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis helps your employees access information and turn raw data from any SAP or non-SAP data source into meaningful information. SAP also delivers user-friendly tools that enable employees to generate reports, ad-hoc queries, and dashboards. In addition, with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator software, you can significantly accelerate response time of data queries and searches.

Managing Information Across Its Life Cycle

Information life-cycle management software and services from SAP helps you set retention policies to help you ensure compliance to regulations. In addition, you can use SAP Document Access by Open Text and SAP Archiving applications by Open Text to maintain access to unstructured data – such as documents supporting a business process – and archive data that is no longer active.