Metadata Manager:

360 View of your BI Deployment360 View of your BI Deployment

Maria Silva

Project Manager

Dunn Solutions Group

Vinod Nair

Technical Lead

Dunn Solutions Group

Chaos

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Learning Points

• What is Metadata?

• An effective way to manage your

metadata from multiple sources

• How to setup Metadata

Integrator to connect to various

sources that encompass your BI

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sources that encompass your BI

infrastructure

• Key functionality of SAP

Metadata Manager tool

Metadata:

Metadata is definitional data that provides

information about data managed within an

application or system• Attributes such as name, size, data type

• Structures such as length, fields, columns

• Properties such as where it is located, how it is associated, ownership• Properties such as where it is located, how it is associated, ownership

• Descriptive information

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Return on Investment

� Corporate data is a key strategic asset, metadata in no exception

• Metadata is everywhere but is it organized?

• Is it easy to access?

• Is it easy to find?

• Is it consistent?

� SAP Metadata Manager can provide � SAP Metadata Manager can provide

ROI in a few weeks:

• Centralize

• Organize

• Easy Access

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Identify Metadata

Identify Source of Metadata

Retire Metadata

Metadata Lifecycle

Capture Metadata

Apply semantics

with Metapedia

Maintain Metadata

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Best Practices

� Setting up a business glossary

(“Metapedia “)

� Impact analysis reports

� Data stewardship

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Different types of systems

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Architecture

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Installation

Metadata Management

Component

BOE Component it runs on

Administration and Explorer BOE Application Server

MM Repository Objects CMS

Metadata Integrators MM Job Server (Adaptive JS

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Metadata Integrators MM Job Server (Adaptive JS

& PS)

Relationship Server Adaptive Processing Server

Search Server Adaptive Processing Server

Business Glossary (Metapedia)

Metapedia entry is a term or description that defines a business concept in your organization.

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Business Glossary (Metapedia)

Then associate a metadata object(s) with the term

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Data Lineage

Lineage analysis allows you to trace back from a

universe object to the source

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Data Lineage

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Data Lineage 2

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Metadata Manager Demonstration

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Conclusion

• Proliferation of metadata is a fact nowadays.

• We need effective tools to help us manage the overload

and provide value to the corporate metadata

• Business metadata is the hardest one to capture. SAP

Metadata Manager can help us merge technical and

business metadata through the use of data stewardship

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business metadata through the use of data stewardship

and Matapedia