Pls send me 5-6 lines simple overview of MDM

[Former Member]

Pls send me 5-6 lines simple overview of MDM

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[Former Member]

Hi Rachit Sehgal ,

These r the details regarding MDM

SAP NetWeaver MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT :

SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) is an enabling foundation for enterprise services and business process management – providing a single version of the truth for customer, product, employee, supplier, or user-defined data objects.

Working across heterogeneous systems at disparate locations, SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management ensures cross-system data consistency through interactive distribution. It integrates business processes across the extended value chain, delivering features and functions to enable:

Master data consolidation – Consolidate master data for companywide analysis and reporting. SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management consolidates and cleanses master data objects from disparate systems. After consolidation, it stores information from different systems in a centralized repository. Related rich content can be included to augment the data store.

Synchronization and distribution of master data – Enable consistent data maintenance and distribution to ensure permanent harmonization of master data. Using global attributes, you can ensure that all systems receive the same master data during distribution – and enrich the distributed data objects with additional attribute values in the target systems. Distribution can be controlled, visible, and traceable, with active status management at each distribution step.

Centralized management of master data – Supports companywide quality standards by ensuring that central control of master data begins as soon as the data is created. Centrally created master data can subsequently be distributed to client systems as required using interactive distribution.

Administration of master data – Manage master data without custom code. A powerful interface supports administrative tasks such as data exception handling and assignment of role-based access to business processes and information. Data managers use the interface to configure data source merging, business rules, and distribution details to downstream applications.

Management of internal content – Collect and centralize all your content – including parametric information and rich content such as images, paragraphs of text, PDF documents, and organizational intelligence about content – in an enterprisewide repository.

Catalog search – Deploy intuitive interfaces that help you locate items internally, publish Web catalogs on e-commerce storefronts and in supplier enablement programs, and integrate easy-to-search catalogs into e-procurement solutions – all from a centralized repository, and all at speeds surpassing normal SQL-based queries.

Print catalog customization – Disseminate product information directly from a centralized catalog repository to popular desktop publishing programs, and automatically generate fully formatted and populated page layouts.

Multichannel syndication of product catalog content – Publish restructured and reformatted extracts or incremental updates of your product catalog content – and distribute them to trading partners in several delimited text and XML formats – on an unscheduled or regular basis.

Business process support – Enable communication in a heterogeneous environment, and insert master data into other systems.

Business analytics and reporting – Leverage synchronized data for reliable analysis and accurate reporting.

The following web-sites which give u detailed knowledge on MDM. I hope it surely helps u.......

(This web-site gives introduction to MDM, Master Data Operations, Master Data Integration,Master Data Quality )

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm

/people/nitzan.levi/blog/2005/06/20/the-story-of-mdm55

/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/06/14/worlds-fastest-and-shortest-introduction-to-netweaver-mdm-55

/people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/09/06/mdm-client-content-manager--different-modes

http://www.sapnetweavermagazine.com/archive/Volume_03_(2007)/Issue_02_(Spring)/v3i2a12.cfm?session=

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/pdf/BWP_SB_Data_Unification.pdf

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9018dc62-23a8-2910-b7ae-9023670c...

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cheers!

gyanaraj

[Former Member]

SAP Master Data Management (SAP® MDM) – a building block of SAP® Net Weaver TM –enables companies to store, augment, and consolidate master data, while ensuring Consistent distribution to all applications and systems within the IT landscape.Working across heterogeneous systems at multiple locations, SAP MDM leverages existing ITinvestments in business-critical data, delivering centralized data management capabilities and enabling organizations to realize maximum value from their core enterprise applications.

Regards,

Vivek Maitra

[Former Member]

Hi,

Just to give a insight. In the large organization Master data play a key role. With so different types of system available on a hetereogenous landscape itz hard to have a centralized system that maintains the master data and because of this there is a duplication of data in various systems.

Sap MDM is a step in the direction to have a centralised Maintenance of the entire master data of the organizatoin. It will maintain the data, avoid duplication, and if there is any then cleanse it (remove it) finally distribute this data to the application that need it both sap and non sap systems.

You can still find lotza info on sap.com

<b><b>Cheers,

*RAJ</b>*</b>

[Former Member]

hi rachit

SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) is a component of SAP's NetWeaver product group and is used as a platform to consolidate, cleanse and synchronise a single version of the truth for master data within a heterogeneous application landscape. It has the ability to distribute internally and externally to SAP and non-SAP applications. SAP MDM is a key enabler of SAP Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture.

PS : Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_Master_Data_Management

regards

Ramesh P

[Former Member]

Hello Ramesh,

SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) is a component of SAP's NetWeaver product group and is used as a platform to consolidate, cleanse and synchronise a single version of the truth for master data within a heterogeneous application landscape.

can you pls expalin the terms -- consolidate, cleanse and synchronise .

Pls give very simple overview of MDM

[Former Member]

Have you considered using http://www.google.com?

[Former Member]

Why cant u post this in MDM Fourm.

[Former Member]

Hi rachit,

suppose there is company XYZ and has implement ed MDM in its landscape

Consolidate --- Suppose the of customer information is collected in City1in this MDM and same customer information is collected in City1. These information have to be merged together or CONSOLIDATED

Cleanse --- http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-data-cleansing.htm

Synchronise --- Suppose you have given some data in city1 and some other data about customer in city2 and these data need to be Synchronised

regards

Ramesh P