IBM Information Server for SAP Information Integration

Customers make strategic choice of implementing on SAP to optimize their business operations, reduce costs, improve performance and gain agility to respond to changing business needs. With the introduction of Netweaver by SAP, customers are starting to integrate their operations with their suppliers, partners and customers. Netweaver BI is increasingly the business analytics platform of choice to make key business decisions.

In all cases, SAP systems are built with data that is scattered in different departmental IT and legacy ERP systems. Standards, quality controls and governance processes rarely exist around legacy data. To achieve the full business benefits of SAP initiatives, it is very important to improve the quality of data and make the data trusted before bringing it into SAP.

IBM Information Server is the data integration platform that ensures the data being brought into SAP becomes trusted. Key features include:

• Broad enterprise connectivity to structured and unstructured data sources
• Metadata management capability for data definition and collaboration
• Parallel processing capability to speed up the processing
• Capability to understand and define source data to ensure trusted information in SAP
• Data cleansing capabilities to create trusted survivor records
• Data transformation capabilities to fit data to SAP data models
• Most optimal data delivery capabilities certified by SAP
• State of the art data federation capabilities to bring in information from different sources to get a consolidated view
• Certified by SAP interface that provides continuous quality improvement