Differences between MDM 3.0 and MDM 5.5?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anybody tell, what are the differences between MDM 3.0 and MDM 5.5?

I heard that, there are lot and lot of changes...

Thanks for your reply,

regrads,

cg

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Everything is different. MDM 5.5 is a completely different software product. It was obtained as part of a prchase of A2i by SAP last year.

MDM 5.5 was originally a Catalog management tool. It looks extemely powerful, but it's still lacking some fairly important features such as workflow and portal integration.

These features are coming. When? Who knows for sure.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

We can look at differences in more than one way:

1. Technology wise

MDM5.5 is developed in C++ & runs on a C++ engine as compared to MDM 3.0 which runs under WAS

However MDM 5.5 is integrated with NW largely, though it can & is planned to be improved further

2. Product Catalog Management

MDM 5.5 has rich PCM capabilities which did not exist in MDM 3.0

3. Other additional capabilities in 5.5

Multilingual support

Syndication of data to XI or file system

Lean, R/3 Idoc based model for supplier, customer, material, employee

4. Ease of installation and usage is a also an advantage of 5.5

You can read Nitza Levi's blog on MDM home page for more details