Master Data Management Support

SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server supports integration hubs with its functionality and a layer of metadata, to facilitate the intelligent design and implementation of master data environments. SAS provides unsurpassed data access; reusable business rules to clean, standardize and enhance data as it moves into the master reference file; and an intuitive development environment that is adaptable to each organization's technologies and standards for increased productivity and rapid results.

• Provides a 360-degree view of data.
• Allows organizations to tie master data management (MDM) efforts to existing data integration initiatives, creating an evolutionary approach to MDM.
• Saves money and resources due to improved revenue management, effective marketing and better business decisions.
• Supports rapid query, analysis and reporting functionality required for successful business initiatives.
• Allows users to access multiple data sources and instantly transform the data into useful information for analysis.

Features

• Master Data Management Foundations provides an intuitive interface for building master data hubs from a data integration environment.
• Enhanced metadata search features enable you to search by type, name, date or other keywords, subset by folders or other options, and save searches for future use.
• Supports semantic data descriptions of input and output data sources that uniquely identify each instance of a business element (customer, product, account, etc.) and standardize the master data model to provide a single source of truth.
• Powerful transformation tools and embedded data quality processes ensure that master data is correct.
• Business rules library contains reusable business rules that clean, standardize, match and enhance data as it moves into the master reference file and is reused for downstream processes.
• Data feeds can arrive in a single transaction or hundreds of transactions at a time.
• Data sets can be processed in a single pass of the source data.