cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Difference between SAP MDM & IBM MDM

Former Member
0 Kudos

Hi,

Can any one tell me what is the difference between SAP MDM & IBM MDM, What are advantages of SAP MDM over IBM MDM.

Pl. give reply

the good answers will be get good points.

Thnks in advance.

praful.

Accepted Solutions (1)

Accepted Solutions (1)

Former Member
0 Kudos

HI Praful,

Please Go through the link.

http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100925

It will give you some idea about IBM View about MDM.

Regards,

Felix

Answers (3)

Answers (3)

Former Member
0 Kudos

Thnks to all of u to give the reply so promptly.

Former Member
0 Kudos

Hi Praful ,

As mentioned above

SAP MDM:SAP MDM enables master data on customers, partners and products to be consolidated and harmonized across the enterprise, making it available to all staff and business partners. A key component of SAP NetWeaver, SAP MDM ensures data integrity across all IT systems. With SAP NetWeaver MDM, customers can manage master data and supplemental content, such as texts, PDF documents, high-resolution images, or diagrams in a central business information warehouse.

Advantages of SAP MDM

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. Standard system architecture would consist of a single central MDM server connected to client systems through SAP Exchange Infrastructure using XML documents, although connectivity without SAP XI can also be achieved

There are five standard implementation scenarios:

Content Consolidation

Master Data Harmonisation

Central Master Data Management

Rich Product Content Management

Global Data Synchronization

The IBM View

In IBM's view, MDM is a set of disciplines, technologies, and solutions used to create and maintain consistent, complete, contextual, and accurate business data for all stakeholders (users, applications, data warehouses, processes, enterprises, trading partners, and so on). It's a holistic framework for managing structured and unstructured data that's aligned with business processes and managed throughout the information life cycle

To a large extent, SAP’s NetWeaver initiatives are concessions to the reality of heterogeneity. No customer is going to have a completely SAP- or Oracle-based environment. With NetWeaver and Fusion, SAP and Oracle propose to accommodate the heterogeneous data-access requirements of their customers while keeping their bread-and-butter application software at the heart of things.

IBM’s middleware vision displaces the primacy of the ERP vendors. It’s probably too much to say that customers who embrace Big Blue’s WebSphere data integration middleware can pick and choose from between and among best-of-breed financial, SCM, and MRP (among others) products for their enterprise application needs. If nothing else, however, IBM’s data integration and MDM middleware stack does give customers an alternative to SAP .

However one of the problems with IBM’s approach to MDM is that, taken in isolation, it would mean that application vendors would need to completely rewrite their applications to take advantage of the MDM layer. This isn’t going to happen, not least because vendors like SAP have their own MDM capabilities.

Moreover, users those do not want to convert to IBM's new multiform MDM offering will have to

negotiate separate maintenance agreements to protect their long-term investments in

WPC (which is WebSphere Product Center is a product information management solution for building a consistent central repository.).

Lastly, users should work with IBM to ensure that the standard IBM three-year

maintenance commitment will continue with the current WPC product, independent of

any move to a single MDM platform.

Regards

Nisha

Message was edited by:

Nisha Lalwani

Former Member
0 Kudos

HI

SAP Master Data Management

SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) enables master data on customers, partners and products to be consolidated and harmonized across the enterprise, making it available to all staff and business partners. A key component of SAP NetWeaver, SAP MDM ensures data integrity across all IT systems.

The SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) component of SAP NetWeaver creates the preconditions for enterprise services and business process management. The functionality represents customers, products, employees, vendors, and user-defined data objects in unified form. With SAP NetWeaver MDM, customers can manage master data and supplemental content, such as texts, PDF documents, high-resolution images, or diagrams in a central business information warehouse.

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. Standard system architecture would consist of a single central MDM server connected to client systems through SAP Exchange Infrastructure using XML documents, although connectivity without SAP XI can also be achieved. There are five standard implementation scenarios:

Content Consolidation - centralized cleansing, de-duplication and consolidation, enabling key mapping and consolidated group reporting in SAP BI. No re-distribution of cleansed data.

Master Data Harmonization - as for Content Consolidation, plus re-distribution of cleansed, consolidated master data.

Central Master Data Management - as for Master Data Harmonization, but all master data is maintained in the central MDM system. No maintenance of master data occurs in the connected client systems.

Rich Product Content Management - Catalogue management and publishing. Uses elements of Content Consolidation to centrally store rich content (images, PDF files, video, sound etc.) together with standard content in order to produce product catalogues (web or print). Has standard adapters to export content to DTP packages.

Global Data Synchronization - provides consistent trade item information exchange with retailers through data hubs Some features (for example, workflow) require custom development out of the box to provide screens for end users to use.

http://www11.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/mdm/index.epx

IBM MDM

n IBM's view, MDM is a set of disciplines, technologies, and solutions used to create and maintain consistent, complete, contextual, and accurate business data for all stakeholders (users, applications, data warehouses, processes, enterprises, trading partners, and so on). It's a holistic framework for managing structured and unstructured data that's aligned with business processes and managed throughout the information life cycle.

As Felix already given this link go through this link u will get more details.

http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100925

And also check these links for more knowledge

Microsoft MDM

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mdm/default.mspx

Microsoft MDM Roadmap

http://www.stratature.com/portals/0/MSMDMRoadmap.pdf

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410798.aspx#mdmhubarch_topic1

I think it may help u

Regards

Hari