SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward – Get continuous insight into data quality and better understand and analyze the trustworthiness of your data.

SAP BusinessObjects Data Information Steward helps companies leverage features including:

• Data profiling – Reduce the risk of propagating bad data through improving the information trustworthiness of data.
• Metadata management – Consolidate, integrate and audit your metadata from all relevant sources.
• Root cause and impact analysis – Determine the origin of data quality problems and how they impact downstream processes or information assets.
• Validation rule management – Define data validation rules against data sources and apply rules continuously to monitor data quality.
• Creation of a metadata business glossary – Encourage a common understanding and acceptance of business terms and create a central location for organizing them.
• Development of cleansing packages – Create and reuse the rules, patterns and dictionary that comprise data cleansing packages.