What is "SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data"?

SAP Data Quality Management, microservices allows developers to embed data cleansing and enrichment services within any business process or application with a self-service, right-sized consumption model.

This is a new offering from SAP currently available as beta on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, developer edition.

This offering provides HTTP/JSON-based services running on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Developers can simply integrate these services into their own applications to provide address cleansing/validation, geocoding, and reverse geocoding capabilities. Below is a summary of functionality provided in the beta.

Key Capabilities – 3 Services provided in the beta offering

Address Cleansing
- Verify address per postal authority reference data as correct
- Standardizethe way the address looksand is structured
- Correct components of an address if incorrect
- Enhance an address with missing attributes
- Assigndiagnostic codes which describe why incorrect or what was corrected
Geocoding
- Append latitude and longitude given an address
Reverse Geocoding
- Provide address(es) given a latitude and longitude

We are hoping to get some early feedback on this service and if you have additional questions or feedback please post some comments here.

We are planning to provide pre-built integrations of these services in other applications from SAP which will provide a very simple way to consume this functionality. More to come on that in the future. If you have an application from SAP and you wish we provided these or other data quality type services within that application please let us know as well! These capabilities are just our starting point.

What countries/languages do we support with this Beta offering?

This is available in the documentation provided for the service during beta which can be found here: Developer Guide (Beta)

We are working on supporting additional countries/languages for our general release and beyond.

What are the benefits of this offering?

Simple consumption model in the Cloud. HTTP/JSON-based services.
Integration w/ many SAP Applications in the future
Leading solution w/ 20+ years of experience in address cleansing and geocoding capabilities (technology acquired from Firstlogic/BusinessObjects)
Strong partnerships with many worldwide postal authorities and data providers
Complementary offering to our on-premise offerings in SAP Data Services and SAP HANA, smart data quality (SDQ)

How is this different than what's offered in SAP Data Services or SAP HANA, smart data quality?

Some of you who are familiar with SAP Data Services or HANA SDQ may be asking how is this offering similar or different than those solutions.

Leveraging the same core software engines in Data Services and HANA SDQ
Similar functionality and behavior as our on-premise offerings
Services in the cloud will provide the following benefits
- No downloads/updates of reference data (directories) - all managed by SAP in the Cloud
- Cloud pricing model(s) to provide more options and flexibility in consuming this functionality as needed (more to come after beta)
- Simple API
- No additional products/infrastructure needed

If you didn't know that SAP offered these capabilities in other products here is more information on Data Services and HANA SDQ:

Data Services:

Data Quality - Enterprise Information Management - SCN Wiki

Geocoder Transform - Enterprise Information Management - SCN Wiki

Global Address Cleanse Transform - Enterprise Information Management - SCN Wiki

HANA SDQ:

SAP HANA smart data integration & smart data quality - YouTube

SAP HANA Academy - Smart Data Quality: Address Cleanse Transformation Basics [SPS09] - YouTube

SAP HANA Academy - Smart Data Quality: Geocode Transformation Basics [SPS09] - YouTube

SAP HANA Academy - Smart Data Quality: Reverse Geocode [SPS 11] - YouTube