SAP Data Hub

With the massive grow in the amount of data that is now being processed and stored, data management is a common and difficult issue. Multiple systems in your IT landscape work in isolation and there are no data governance processes established. If the source information is changed, there is no single place that can answer two basic questions – who changed it and why? In large organizations, the structure of the data is an additional challenge. It is quite likely that you have multiple data marts, or even multiple data lakes, and you are probably also using multiple different analytics and visualization software. Each solution is managed by a different team that uses different toolsets, and getting a holistic view of your data is a big challenge, if not impossible.

The SAP Data Hub, which is one of the newer SAP products, tries to address these issues and provides a common platform for data governance and data orchestration. It implements a data catalogue...