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LEARNING POINTS
Discuss how SAP Information Steward can assist in
establishing a Data Governance program
Enable power users in the business to own data
processing and be responsible for data quality
Remove manual steps to automate data processing as
much as possible
Extend the out-of-the-box visualizations available in
Information Steward scorecards by utilizing repository
metadata
Involve data stewards directly in de-duplication efforts
via Match Review Tasks in Information Steward
Who Is Grifols?
International healthcare company based in
Barcelona, Spain with offices the Raleigh, NC as
well as Los Angeles
Develop and distribute life-saving protein therapies
derived from human plasma
Have experienced rapid growth over the past few
years as a result of mergers and acquisitions
What we do
Strategize and implement Data Governance solutions
BI Nirvana 90 day Business Intelligence on HANA
Full lifecycle data warehouse implementations
Data visualizations and standard reporting
Information Steward
Information Steward was chosen to be used as the
tool to help implement initial DG policies
Integrates nicely with DS, which was already in use
Naming standards
Objects properly named, data that is being sourced from
or written to, initial/delta load, number in sequence if
applicable
E.g. DF_ACCOUNT_MASTER_INT_D
ETL Automation
Combine objects into jobs, workflows, etc
Went from 15 steps down to 3-4 depending on data
DQ Visualizations
Needed a way to assess DQ before it became an
issue
IS Data Insight was the best solution for our purposes
DQ Reporting Enhancements
Extract data from appropriate tables/views in the IS
repository database every time new DQ data is
available
Historical scores are readily available from the
following database views:
MMB_DATA_GROUP
Contains project names, among many other things
MMB_KEY_DATA_DOMAIN
Key Data Domain descriptions
MMB_KEY_DATA_DOMAIN_SCORE
Historical scores for every active quality object
MMB_DOMAIN_VALUE
Quality dimension descriptions
MMB_KEY_DATA_DOMAIN_SCORE
Contains scores for KDDs, QDs, Rules, Bindings,
by key data domain, which is attached to a
scorecard
Column to select score type is
KEY_DATA_DOMAIN_SCORE_TYPE_CD
TOTL = Key Data Domain Score
KDDQ = Quality Dimension Score
KDDR = Rule Score
KDDB = Rule Binding Score
Automated DQ Chain
Automated DQ Chain
Scorecard
Scorecard Drilldown
DQ Webi Report
BEST PRACTICES
Involve the business often to showcase improvements
and ask for further suggestions
Necessary for all DG/DQ projects
KEY LEARNING
SAP Information Steward can assist in establishing a
Data Governance program and gaining momentum
within your organization
Empower your power users to own data processing
and be responsible for data quality. Actively involve
business users in all steps of the process
Eliminate manual intervention to automate data
processing as much as possible. This is where a large
portion of ROI can be found
Questions?
Praneeth Padmanabhuni
praneeth.padmanabhuni@grifols.com
Rich Hauser
richard.hauser@decisionfirst.com
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