If you are an SAP customer a significant proportion of your key corporate data assets are stored in your core SAP applications. Ensuring that these are available and easily understood is critical to the success of your data catalog, governance or lineage project.
However, a data catalog and SAP can be difficult bedfellows. SAP ECC, S/4HANA, BW and BW/4HANA are large, complex and often highly customized applications with difficult to access metadata. This means that they can present a significant challenge to the delivery of a truly enterprise-wide solution.
If SAP data can’t be assimilated easily into the new data platform, project failure could be on the horizon.Here are 15 questions you might like to ask your data catalog or data governance solution vendors:
