Introduction to the DataFlux Data Management Server

The DataFlux Data Management Server provides consistent, accurate, and reliable access to data across a network by integrating real-time data quality, data integration, and data governance routines. With DataFlux Data Management Server, you can replicate your business rules for acceptable data across applications and systems, enabling you to build a single, unified view of your enterprise. The server implements business rules that you create in DataFlux Data Management Studio, in both batch and real-time environments. DataFlux Data Management Server enables pervasive data quality, data integration, process orchestration, and master data management (MDM) throughout your enterprise.

The Data Management Server provides a service-oriented architecture (SOA) application server that enables you to execute batch or profile jobs on a server-based platform, in Windows, Linux, or UNIX. By processing batch and profile jobs where the data resides, you avoid network bottlenecks and take advantage of performance features available with higher-performance computers.

In addition, the Data Management Server executes real-time data services and real-time process services. These services can be invoked by any web service application, such as SAP, Siebel, Tibco, or Oracle. You can convert your existing batch jobs to real-time services, to reuse the business logic that you developed for data migration or to load a data warehouse. You can apply your real-time services at the point of data entry to ensure consistent, accurate, and reliable data across your enterprise.

The following diagram shows how DataFlux Data Management Server connects to other servers and clients:

Security on the Data Management Server is implemented through external authentication and internal authorization. External security services are provided by the SAS Metadata Server. To authenticate, the SAS Metadata Server sends credentials to a native authentication provider.

Users and groups are defined and stored on the SAS Metadata Server. To authorize access to jobs, services, and commands, the DataFlux Data Management Server queries the SAS Metadata Server for a user’s group memberships. To grant permissions, the memberships are applied to locally maintained access control entries and security configuration options. Enhanced security, featuring HTTPS and FIPS 140-2 compliance for the SOAP interface, is provided when you enable the DataFlux Secure software, as described in the DataFlux Secure Administrator’s Guide.

The Data Management Server is provided as part of an increasing number of enterprise solutions, including SAS MDM and SAS Visual Process Orchestration.