Solutions for Data Management in SAP
In the modern data-driven business ecosystem, data management has taken precedence over most operational requirements. Organizations today handle terabytes of data and more and are constantly looking for ways and means to optimally process and store it.
SAP data management is a solution that offers several alternatives to meeting this goal. SAP HANA platform has a robust database with optimized services that are excellently geared for creating innovative applications. It converges transactions and analytics on one in-memory database thereby enabling business processes in real-time.
There are several aspects of SAP data management.
· Reduction of latency to the minimum through advanced in-memory processing
· Insight and analytics in real-time from the IoT and Big Data
· Increased scalability and lower complexity due to the integrated data replication and virtualization features.
· Models with geospatial and streaming data are supported by the SAP data management
· Offers tools that help keep businesses secure, compliant with security norms, and minimize downtime.
Further, organizations using SAP data management have several options to meet the challenges posed by huge volumes of data. Some of them that assist users to get data processed and ready for use are SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality, SAP Data Services, and SAP LT Replication Server. Where specific solutions are required, users of SAP can connect to different warehousing options as well as to databases.
Here are some of the products and solutions of SAP data management.
· SAP Agile Data Preparation: This tool connects to sources of data like databases and spreadsheets helping in the required transformation and manipulation of data.
· SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: This SAP product is a fully managed and integrated data-warehouse-as-a-service solution. It is customized for both SAP and non-SAP users and has minimum deployment, complexity, and flexible pricing. The structure of the solution is created to match well and attach to existing on-premises data warehouse deployments and extend into the SaaS ecosystem. Because of this feature, organizations do not have to move the complete data mart into the cloud.
· SAP Business Warehouse (BW): This is a legacy data warehouse product that runs on any database even third-party ones. Extended maintenance options will be provided till end 2030. An updated version of this SAP data management solution is the SAP BW/4HANA. It was released in 2016 and runs on top of the SAP HANA database. Outstanding attributes are software simplicity, a modern interface, and high performance.
· Data Lifecycle Manager: An SAP HANA Extended Application Services Tool, it can move data from SAP HANA to other storage devices in three ways. The first is the “hot storage” for moving currently used data, the second is the “warm storage” for disk-based extended storage, and finally, is the “cold storage” for infrequently used data that can be stored in an external drive.
These are some of the advanced solutions for SAP data management.