SAP Information Steward Valuable Features

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Works

The most valuable feature is the ability to collect information from devices, to monitor user access and to plan storage capacity upon those devices.

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AM
Senior Manger - SAP Data Services Architect & Delivery Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Data insight is the most valuable feature. The solution is user-friendly even for those who are dealing with it for the first time. 

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PT
SAP BODS Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The feature I have found most valuable is the scorecard, which allows me to see how much data has been validated correctly.

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SAP Information Steward
March 2024
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FS
Director at Pixel Studio PTY

For most SAP customers, Information Steward is enough because it is able to build quality data rules to detect issues in the source systems like SAP HANA, Business Warehouse, or other systems.

A business user can first organize their data into several data domains. For example, procurement, human resources, and logistics setup. The domains can build data quality dimensions where you can describe the kind of rule that you are going to use. The user then can immediately see if something is wrong with their data using traffic lights.

Another great feature of SAP Information Steward is the accuracy that the content is followed by validating against the reference tool. With the solution, you are creating data quality dimensions. Within these dimensions, you are creating business data quality rules that are looking for specific fields. From these rules, you can create a scorecard. The scorecard will highlight the percentage of good data and ensure the user can feel confident that the data is accurate within predetermined limits.

SAP tables have field names that are very cryptic, making them hard to understand the meaning of the fields. Metapedia helps describe these fields in business terms.

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GY
SAP Data migration and management consultant at Syniti

The most valuable features are data quality insight, metadata management, and metadata dictionary.

It is very easy to deploy. 

The data that they give us is good. We use it in our data quality domain.

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FG
SAP ABAP Consultant, SAP Data Services Consultant at Freelancer

The most valuable feature is that I can centralize data in cloud form with multiple connections and then consume that data from HANA database data connections.

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VJ
SAP Data Sevices Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The data profiling was excellent, as was the ease of generating the dashboards. It allowed the user to view the data, including what kind of data they had.

It was easy to see the source at the data level itself for reporting and analysis purposes. 

I primarily have a data migration background. Information Steward was very helpful from the perspective of a legacy data report generation, whatever the data we are getting and in terms of what kind of data we are getting.

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RM
SAP Data Services Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Data Cleansing and the scorecard dashboard are very valuable. Additionally, the financial aspect of SAP Information Steward is very good. When a rule is incorrect then it will show how much is it costing the business. These features are very valuable.

It shows the business how that data looks like. When they link the financials it shows them if the data is dirty, and how much it costs the business. There are special features for cleansing the data that are beneficial. It is a huge task to cleanse data manually, automating it through the Data Cleansing package is very valuable.

The user interface is user-friendly and is object-oriented. It is simple for the user to interpret what is happening. I am very happy with the product.

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SAP Information Steward
March 2024
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