New to MDM

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am an SAP XI Consultant with 2 years of experience. Prior to XI I have one year Java experience. Now I am willing to have additional skill from Netweaver stack. I have chosen two options: BI or MDM. Which one is suitable for XI consultants? and how will be career for that combinatino. Please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions.

Regards

Bhanu.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Bhanu,

I am an SAP XI Consultant with 2 years of experience. Prior to XI I have one year Java experience. Now I am willing to have additional skill from Netweaver stack. I have chosen two options: BI or MDM. Which one is suitable for XI consultants? and how will be career for that combinatino. Please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions.

In my opinion, if you see that MDM is basically a tool for consolidating, Harmonizing and centrally maintaining the Master Data. For this MDM has to techinally integrate with many other components such as SAP R3, SAP BI, SRM, CRM and so many other SAP and non-SAP systems. And XI being a middleware is used in almost all the technical integration scenarios. Whereas Bi is a reporting tool, but has already been established in the Market. But MDM is picking the Market right now and not much people are in MDM. Hence as a career I would advice you to opt for MDM.

Also, you have JAVA experience, which will be very handy in MDM as JAVA API's are vastly used in MDM. So learning MDM will be ideal for you.

Kindly go through these threads which will give you additional info:

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/profile/new%2bto%2bmdm%2b~%2bhow%2bis%2bcareer%2bin%2bsap-mdm]

Before you, many XI consultants have showed their eagerness to learn MDM. Kindly go through htese links to know more about the same:

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These links will also lead you to additional links which will guide you how to learn MDM.

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/profile/new%2bto%2bmdm%2b~%2bhow%2bto%2blearn%2bsap-mdm]

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/9881] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken];

Hope it helps.

*Kindly reward points if helpful

Thanks and Regards

Nitin Jain

[Former Member]

Hi Bhanu,

I would suggest you to go for MDM as its importance is increasing in market day by day. Soon, it will become boon for IT Companies.

Besides MDM, you must knoe the integration of MDM with either R/3 or with XI, or with BI,

Since you are an SAP XI consultant, so it has added an additional advantage for you.

For more details about its value in market, please refer the link below:

http://www.cio.com/article/361015/SAP_s_Push_Into_the_SMB_Market_Is_Creating_a_Skills_Gap_for_IT_Dep...

Regards

Richa

[Former Member]

Hi Bhanu Tiruveedula ,

MDM does not have coding part, only data management, but oppurtunity wise, there are less companies having MDM projects. It will take certain time to be HOT in the market.

BI has REPORTING DATA LOADING, EXTRACTION, MODELLING . It is having huge openings in the market. ABAP + BI is preferrable as BI has OO ABAP touch.

Since u r having JAVA experience, it prefferable to move towards EP (Enterprise Portal) as it includes J2EE concepts.

I think to my knowledge u can shift towards EP .

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am also new to mdm but i have knowledg in bw and bi and bps

as per my knowledge u may go mdm because allready so many of

bw people in market but one advantage for bw we can learn any

easily because we may touch with master data and as well as

transactional data ......... any way best to go for mdm........

[Former Member]

Hi Bhanu,

Firstly, an appreciable decision as you have rightly mentioned as - Prior to XI I have one year Java experience. Now I am willing to have additional skill from Netweaver stack.

As you seem to be clear with alternatives, i would be sharing about Masterdata management (i.e. MDM) from my perspective.

Now, something about MDM: To make it little clear i''d liek to share something about Data and MDM.Data is the food for any system to run and master data is the heart of that system.Master data is that crucial information on which all your business process run.If your master data is not in proper shape the analytics run on them will be incorrect as a result the business decisions taken will be wrong and this will result in a complete failure of your business.

There are many ERP systems existing today but very few provide an effective,systematic and fool proof method to preserve a single version of truth odf your master data.

SAP MDM address this problem and so is here today to bring all your master data under one roof.

So,in general,benefits of keeping Master data in 1 place is

Conformance/Auditing

Single view of customer

Global data synchronization efforts

Accurate reporting

Consolidation after mergers and acquisitions

Reduced effort to consolidate information

Reduced cleansing/mapping of information

Increased efficiency

Reduced costs overall.

with this much details you can refer to the URLs which have detailed infomation about every aspects of MDM:

For detailed overview

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/47/1c5928cd0412b8e10000000a1553f7/content.htm

To know about Key capabilities:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/46/b8065a4df01517e10000000a114a6b/content.htm

Read reference Guide of various modules of MDM:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/88/9f9c427055c66ae10000000a155106/content.htm

I hope these documentation will help you in your reading.

Regards,

Krutarth