Advanced business data management

The use case Advanced Data Management focuses on business data as the key asset to understand where data is stored, how it is transferred, and how it is used so that your company an ensure compliance with data protection regulations and enforce data governance policies.

As an alternative to the Basic Data Management use case, which describes the transfer of data via business objects, Advanced Data Management the class Business Data is added at the leaf level of the hierarchy Business Object Category > Business Object > Business Data. The business data are concrete, logical instances of business objects, which represent an abstract entity such as a customer or employee. For example, the high-level business object Employeemight hav two different business data Employee HR and Employee Reporting, whereby Employee HR includes sensitive data like salary and gender whereas Employee Reportingincludes global reporting dashboards have only access to aggregated data. Data usage and CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations are maintained directly on the business data.

When the use case Advanced Data Management is activated, the new Business Data node is available in the navigation panel. Business data can be captured in the Business Data data workbench where it can be assigned to a parent business object and its data protection requirements specified. The business data content area provides views to capture evaluations such as the DPIA rating, the attributes of the business data, and CRUD usage.

Additionally, with the activation of Advanced Data Management, the business object content area will display a Business Data data workbench to specify the business data assigned to the business object and a Business Data Governance view that shows all business data associated with the business object, the compliance of the data, and analysis of its attributes. Additionally, the information flow content area will show a Transferred Business Data view where transferred data can be captured from the perspective of the incoming or outgoing information flow.

The use cases Basic Data Management and Advanced Data Management are mutually exclusive and only one may be enabled.