August 2024
Introduction
As our matured products continue to have consistent traction in the market with emerging technologies and data platforms, it is essential for us to focus on extending its versions to meet the evolving needs of our customers. This Statement of Direction outlines our strategic approach to extending product versions, ensuring that we maintain our competitive edge in the on-premises data stewardship, data quality, metadata, and glossary space as well as on-cloud and deliver value to our customers. Our primary objective is to understand and address the specific requirements of our customers, for the matured products as well as new and emerging technologies in the cloud. We will actively engage with our user base through feedback sessions, support channels, and market research to identify their pain points, challenges, and emerging needs.
Executive Summary
This document provides guidance to our customers of SAP Data Management portfolio, with respect to SAP Information Steward (IS) solution, on the product directions. For Data Services (DS) we have a separate blog communication made available. This document is an updated version of our blog post made on November 3, 2023, which focused on SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services.
SAP Data Management portfolio expanded further in the cloud with the introduction of SAP Datasphere in March 2023. SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive data service built only on SAP® Business Technology platform (SAP BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission critical business data. It is the next generation of SAP® Data Warehouse Cloud, with new capabilities that enhance data discovery, data catalog, metadata, modeling, and distribution. With a unified experience for data cataloging, semantic modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute authoritative business data with business context and logic preserved across the data landscape.
As we define the future of SAP Data Management portfolio, with our stated data management strategy, current on-premise SAP Information Steward customers can leverage their existing investments and efforts, repurposing those time-tested and trusted artifacts and configurations that are being used today in SAP Information Steward (IS), while also extending the reach of their data management to the cloud, with SAP Datasphere, a native cloud solution. We are committed to our existing SAP Information Steward and customer base too.
In 2022 we did a minor version upgrade of SAP Information Steward to 4.3, allowing the compatibility with Business Intelligence BusinessObjects 4.3. As a result, our support policy extended the end of mainstream maintenance timeline to end of 2025 and priority 1 support to end of 2027 for both SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services. However, with the mainstream maintenance of version 4.3 of SAP Information Steward ending in 2025, we do not want to leave our large customer base behind, and therefore we have decided to release an updated version, code named SAP Information Steward 2025 to provide more time to our on-premises customers to adopt our rapidly evolving, state-of-the-art cloud data quality and data governance scenarios. Many of our largest SAP Information Steward customers already run both solutions side-by-side, during their transition to the managed cloud deployment.
SAP Information Steward 2025
Our current plan to release a new version of the SAP Information Steward in 2025 as a successor of SAP Information Steward 4.3 remains unchanged and will be…
Code named SAP Information Steward 2025Available on-premisesFocused on the most widely adopted on-premises scenarios: SAP Information Steward for data stewardship, metadata, glossary, and data qualityCompatible with proposed BI 2025 suite and planned to be released a quarter after BI 2025We have plans to release the first version by the end of Q2 2025 followed by ‘Fix Packages’ as needed.We have plans to release a new version every alternate year and reduce the frequency of SAP Information Steward, (SP) Service Pack releases. The ‘Service Pack’ release has been planned to be deprecated.Continue to support Windows and Linux platforms only.We do not foresee any impact to solutions and partners using SAP Information Steward in an OEM mode.
We are committed to support you.
We recognize the importance of continuously improving and innovating our product and yet manage a balance between our on-premises and cloud-based solutions. We will invest in research and development to explore new technologies, industry trends, and market demands yet support our existing customer base for the mature products. By fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, we will ensure that our product versions remain cutting-edge and relevant in the ever-changing business landscape. We are committed to help and support our customers.
Many customers rely on SAP Information Steward for critical use cases and will need to do so beyond 2025. Our support plan for SAP Information Steward is as follows and our message is consistent. Please refer to the respective GA versions Product Availability Matrix for the support timelines.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
SAP Information Steward remains as a key component of our Data Management portfolio, and we are committed to our customers. Please help us fine tune our roadmaps of SAP Information Steward providing your input through the dedicated inbox:
SAP Information Steward: sap.informationsteward.enhance@sap.com
We appreciate your feedback and will answer your questions via our official communication channels.
August 2024IntroductionAs our matured products continue to have consistent traction in the market with emerging technologies and data platforms, it is essential for us to focus on extending its versions to meet the evolving needs of our customers. This Statement of Direction outlines our strategic approach to extending product versions, ensuring that we maintain our competitive edge in the on-premises data stewardship, data quality, metadata, and glossary space as well as on-cloud and deliver value to our customers. Our primary objective is to understand and address the specific requirements of our customers, for the matured products as well as new and emerging technologies in the cloud. We will actively engage with our user base through feedback sessions, support channels, and market research to identify their pain points, challenges, and emerging needs. Executive SummaryThis document provides guidance to our customers of SAP Data Management portfolio, with respect to SAP Information Steward (IS) solution, on the product directions. For Data Services (DS) we have a separate blog communication made available. This document is an updated version of our blog post made on November 3, 2023, which focused on SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services.SAP Data Management portfolio expanded further in the cloud with the introduction of SAP Datasphere in March 2023. SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive data service built only on SAP® Business Technology platform (SAP BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission critical business data. It is the next generation of SAP® Data Warehouse Cloud, with new capabilities that enhance data discovery, data catalog, metadata, modeling, and distribution. With a unified experience for data cataloging, semantic modeling, data integration, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute authoritative business data with business context and logic preserved across the data landscape.As we define the future of SAP Data Management portfolio, with our stated data management strategy, current on-premise SAP Information Steward customers can leverage their existing investments and efforts, repurposing those time-tested and trusted artifacts and configurations that are being used today in SAP Information Steward (IS), while also extending the reach of their data management to the cloud, with SAP Datasphere, a native cloud solution. We are committed to our existing SAP Information Steward and customer base too.In 2022 we did a minor version upgrade of SAP Information Steward to 4.3, allowing the compatibility with Business Intelligence BusinessObjects 4.3. As a result, our support policy extended the end of mainstream maintenance timeline to end of 2025 and priority 1 support to end of 2027 for both SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services. However, with the mainstream maintenance of version 4.3 of SAP Information Steward ending in 2025, we do not want to leave our large customer base behind, and therefore we have decided to release an updated version, code named SAP Information Steward 2025 to provide more time to our on-premises customers to adopt our rapidly evolving, state-of-the-art cloud data quality and data governance scenarios. Many of our largest SAP Information Steward customers already run both solutions side-by-side, during their transition to the managed cloud deployment. SAP Information Steward 2025Our current plan to release a new version of the SAP Information Steward in 2025 as a successor of SAP Information Steward 4.3 remains unchanged and will be…Code named SAP Information Steward 2025Available on-premisesFocused on the most widely adopted on-premises scenarios: SAP Information Steward for data stewardship, metadata, glossary, and data qualityCompatible with proposed BI 2025 suite and planned to be released a quarter after BI 2025We have plans to release the first version by the end of Q2 2025 followed by ‘Fix Packages’ as needed.We have plans to release a new version every alternate year and reduce the frequency of SAP Information Steward, (SP) Service Pack releases. The ‘Service Pack’ release has been planned to be deprecated.Continue to support Windows and Linux platforms only.We do not foresee any impact to solutions and partners using SAP Information Steward in an OEM mode. We are committed to support you.We recognize the importance of continuously improving and innovating our product and yet manage a balance between our on-premises and cloud-based solutions. We will invest in research and development to explore new technologies, industry trends, and market demands yet support our existing customer base for the mature products. By fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, we will ensure that our product versions remain cutting-edge and relevant in the ever-changing business landscape. We are committed to help and support our customers.Many customers rely on SAP Information Steward for critical use cases and will need to do so beyond 2025. Our support plan for SAP Information Steward is as follows and our message is consistent. Please refer to the respective GA versions Product Availability Matrix for the support timelines. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOUSAP Information Steward remains as a key component of our Data Management portfolio, and we are committed to our customers. Please help us fine tune our roadmaps of SAP Information Steward providing your input through the dedicated inbox:SAP Information Steward: sap.informationsteward.enhance@sap.comWe appreciate your feedback and will answer your questions via our official communication channels. Read More Technology Blogs by SAP articles
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