SAP MDM AND KALIDO MDM

[Former Member]

Hi SDNers

Can someone illustrate the pros an cons of SAP MDM over KALIDO MDM in details please.It will be appreciated if you explain rather than pasting links

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Neethu joy ,

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.

U can view the following websites for further details :

Master Data Management

SAP MDM Content Consolidation

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm300/helpdata/EN/90/5fc33e7d432552e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

KALIDO MDM: MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT

Kalido MDM is an enterprise-wide master data management software solution for harmonizing, storing and managing master data over time. Kalido MDM software increases the consistency and accuracy of corporate performance reporting by enabling business people to collaboratively control and manage master data in a workflow-driven web-based environment. The master data management software produces a master data warehouse from which "golden-copy" master data can be distributed to business intelligence applications, data warehouses, enterprise applications and business people throughout the organization.

Different types of master data include product, customer, supplier, employee, chart of accounts, key performance indicator, brand, and more. When effectively managed, master data provides a consistent context against which business performance can be measured.

Master data is often duplicated and managed in multiple systems, making it difficult to create consolidated views of business performance across the enterprise. This is particularly common in enterprises which regularly undergo mergers and acquisitions; which introduce, retire, buy and sell product lines; that open and close locations; and that operate under different and changing regulatory environments across corporate divisions or geographic regions. This inconsistency makes it nearly impossible to gain consolidated views of enterprise performance. Or compare results across the organization.

To address these issues, companies are turning to software solutions to help them manage master data. Kalido Master Data Management software helps organizations address these challenges.

Key capabilities of KALIDO MDM

Manages any type of master data – from product, brand and customer, to supplier, employee, financial chart of accounts, and more.

Loads non-conforming master data – instead of rejecting invalid master data, all master data is loaded to the repository and validated through workflow or a business model revision.

Robust workflow – managing master data is a process, and Kalido’s workflow capabilities help users control master data quality in a collaborative, workflow-driven environment.

Reporting – A business model-driven set of business intelligence reporting tables gives BI tool users the ability to easily view and report on any aspect of the master data, such as data quality metrics across the organization.

Programmatic control – Full API allows control over the entire product to facilitate customizations, interoperability with SOA and other infrastructure components.

Maintains master data history – historic views can be re-created to support audits and historical analysis as master data adapts to business changes over time.

Key benefits of KALIDO MDM

Provides accurate, accessible and consistent master data no matter what type of data you need to manage.

Allows the business information experts – whether in IT or in the business – to be in control of master data governance and data stewardship.

Flexible workflow lets the right people be involved at the right steps to ensure valid data.

Shares master data across the enterprise via portals, BI tools and other applications, for greater business transparency and understanding.

Delivers historic, current and planned views of data, facilitating trend analyses, scenario planning and regulatory compliance audits.

KALIDO 8 Application Suite

http://www.bloor-research.com/research/product_evaluation/778/kalido_8_application_suite.html

http://www.businessintelligence.com/ex/asp/id.1080/xe/binewsdetail.htm

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[Former Member]

I got the required information.

THanks for answere.

[Former Member]

Hi Neethu,

In the area of Master Data management and warehousing there are effectively only two major options at the present time, SAP MDM and KALIDO MDM. If your IT landscape is dominated by SAP then it makes sense to consider the SAP MDM option. However, in a mixed landscape with disparate information sources and more than one ERP solution,then KALIDO 8’s master data warehousing solution is more likely to provide the flexibility required to meet your needs.

<b><b><b>Kalidos View</b></b></b>

In a sense, master (reference) data management can be thought of as a special

form of data warehouse federation (A ‘federated data warehouse’ consists

of a set of data warehouse instances that operate semi-autonomously, are generally geographically or organizationally disparate, but which can be thought of as one large data warehouse). The key concepts are the

same: reference data, such as product, customer, vendor and

organization structure, are stored in a master data warehouse.

This warehouse contains core product information needed

by all the systems (federation members) that subscribe to it,

but the subscribing systems would take the core product

information and extend it: marketing may create multiple

‘local’ products per single corporate product classification;

manufacturing may add bill-of-material information.

Before turning to Master Data Warehouse architectures for federated warehouses, it is important to emphasize that effective master data management is also key to the integration of data from several sources into a single data warehouse instance.

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The key issue regarding effective implementation of integrated data within a federation is to ensure that the transactional data flowing between the federation members is always based on common consistent master data. This can best be achieved by implementation of a Master Data Warehouse. It is in principle possible to build a federated model that does not rely upon the use of a Master Data Warehouse but instead employs message-based routing

and transformation technologies (EAI) to transform data en route.

<b><b>Disadvantages of this view</b></b>

However, experience shows that such <b>systems are complex to manage and that, over time,the absence of a common warehouse (a single common source of master data) leads to inconsistency and frequent errors in transactional data</b>

Furthermore, such <b>systems generally do not easily lend themselves to being rapidly adapted to new business requirements since

they are often dependent upon writing low-level code to effect the revisions.</b>

The high level architecture contains federated set of data

warehouses with integrated data, based on maintenance of

master data using a Master Data Warehouse,. Here the master data warehouse supplies master data to both the data warehouse federation and

the underlying source systems.It is important to note here that the Master Data Warehouse is in effect an operational system since it manages all master

data flowing through the organization.

This <b>demands effective processes and procedures for management and ownership of master data.</b>

For reference u can refer the link

http://hosteddocs.ittoolbox.com/DW041505.pdf

And Krutarth as stated above the advantages of SAP MDM

Regards

Nisha

[Former Member]

Hi Neethu,

Kalido MDM is

1)an enterprise-wide master data management software solution for harmonizing, storing and managing master data over time.

2)Kalido MDM software increases the consistency and accuracy of corporate performance reporting by enabling business people to collaboratively control and manage master data in a workflow-driven web-based environment.

3)The master data management software produces a master data warehouse from which "golden-copy" master data can be distributed to business intelligence applications, data warehouses, enterprise applications and business people throughout the organization.

Prime disadvantage or say limitation of this is:

a) Master data is often duplicated and managed in multiple systems.

b) It is still dificult for issue that Kalido is expensive compared to other alternatives available in market.

c) Repositoty maintance in Kelido is at conventional Data-model level

As of SAP MDM:

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.

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:

1)content consolidatoin

2)master data harmonization

3)central MDM (CMDM)

4)rich product content managment

5)global data syncronization.

Hope this will hint you to differencista SAP MDM from Kelido Master data managment.

Regards,

Krutarth