CCM or MDM - What are the advantage and disadvantage

[Former Member]

Hi

We are planning to install a catalog but is now in doubt what catalog system we must use. We use SRM5.0 but will upgrade to SRM6.0 if we have to.

Can someone tell me the advantage and disadvantage for CCM and MDM?

I know that some patches will be released in MDM2.0 in December and March and this patches will give the following:

- Approver UI in Portal 7.0 (via iViews)

- Integration of Electronic Forms

- Config of Column With

- Config of Image size

- Support of decimal quantities ?!?!?!

- Configurable products

- Browse categories via images

- Customer exits in Search UI

- Search attributes by range

Do CCM for example support the above (except the UI stuff)??

Usefull hints will be rewarded.

[former_member544585]

Hi Jesper,

Here's my short spill.

CCM

Pros:

- Support is available until 2013

- Quite easily extendable with custom fields

- OK for small catalogs, as you mentioned

Cons:

- SAP has stopped developing any new functionality in this tool (a sunset phase)

- primitive end user interface for both sides: maintenance and shopping

- primitive content validation functionality

- serious performance issues with big catalogs (and even small-to-medium catalogs that have many views)

SRM-MDM

Pros:

- SAP's future direction for SRM content management

- rapid bug fixing and new funcitonality development by SAP (so far)

- based on an ironed-out MDM core: solid design, good performance and relatively few bugs

- good content validation functionality

- great UI for catalog maintenance, good (and improving) UI for shopping

Cons:

- no BAdIs / user exits on the maintenance side (albeit you may not need any since the tool is powerful as is).

- some OCI field mappings are hard-coded, resulting in some data modelling constraints (e.g. you can only use SAP-delivered Price field)

I have set up and worked with both tools, and my recommendation would generally be SRM-MDM.

Cheers,

Serguei

[Former Member]

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Regards

- Atul

[Former Member]

Hi Atul

Is as understand it is an advantage to use CCM if the catalog content is below 100.000 articles, CCM is abap based and run on UNIX

MDM is done in C++, running on windows platform and requires local installations (data manager)