MDM and XI

[Former Member]

Hello,

How important it is to use XI if I make MDM iviews or have MDM Web Dynpro's which connects to the non SAP Database with the help of web service?

Regards,

Dharmi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dharmi,

iViews / Web Dynpros come into picture when you want to display the data from MDM. However, XI comes into picture when you want to consolidate and harmonize your data.

Consolidation : Get all the master data residing in different applications into MDM (via XI - its possible to get the data into MDM without XI as well) and manage the data centrally.

Harmonization : Once the data is managed centrally, change in the data, new master data needs to be distributed to the application systems. This is where XI is expected to play a role.

Currently, MDM can only read from file (XML / excel / IDOC XML's) and can only write into files (XML's, IDOC XML's, Excels) or it can read the databases (SQL Server, Access, Oracle). So if you are planning to do direct interaction with the databases or files you can do that without using XI.

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Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Ravi,

Thank you for providing such a clear picture.

Best regards,

Dharmi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dharmi,

Please reward points if you found the answers useful.

regards,

Ravi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Ravi,

I have already rewarded 10 points to you. Can you please check?

Regards,

Dharmi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for being so prompt.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You Welcome.