SRM 7.0 on NW 7.01 with SAP MDM 3.0 Catalog

[Former Member]

Hello,

We are implementing the following Components:

SRM 7.0

MDM 7.1

BI

PI 7.0

Portal 7.0

We are currently live with ECC 5.

We will be using the SAP MDM Catalog along with SRM. We will be also implementing MDM to use for Master Data Cleansing. I wanted to know whether we will need to install the SAP MDM Catalog on the SRM7.0 system or can we install it on the MDM 7.1 system and then connect it to SRM?

Any pros/cons if we can use it as part of the MDM landscape?

Thanks in advance.

[former_member544585 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sheldon,

Great question. Technically speaking, you can certainly use your SRM-MDM repository on the main MDM 7.1 system. However, the following cons apply:

1. Even though it contains several core components from Netweaver (NW) MDM, SRM-MDM Catalog is being developped by SAP as a separate product. The patch releases between SRM-MDM and NW MDM are also not in synch (at least that's the current situation). Therefore, if you have both applications on one MDM system, you will have an undesired dependency related to applying new patches - which may lead to some issues.

2. Performance of one application will be impacted by the load on the other one.

3. Down time of one application will impact the users of the other one.

4. Upgrades will be more difficult to handle.

On my recent project, the direction from SAP was to use two different systems - one for SRM-MDM, one for NW MDM.

Cheers,

Serguei

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the clarification and help on this. We will seperate our SRM-MDM catalog from the MDM landscape. One more question, is it normal practice to deploy the SRM-MDM on the same J2EE instance as the SRM installation it's going to connect to?

[Tamas_SAP]

Hi Sheldon,

you cannot mix up the SRM-MDM and the MDM. If you want to have a catalog, than you need the SRM-MDM. But if you want to have Master Data coordination, than you will need MDM. If you need both function, then you have to install SRM-MDM and MDM too, but separately! Due to performance issues it is not recommended to run SRM-MDM and MDM on the same server!

Regards,

Tamás

SAP