Benefits of Master Data Management

Figure 1: Illustration of the Master Data Governance process

Introduction

Master data management initiatives that we find at our customers are manifold. They range from Indexing & Grouping of master data for analytical purposes, via Consolidation of duplicates into “golden records” or Harmonization of master data attributes across a system landscape, to various Central Maintenance scenarios.

Figure 2: Editions group multiple Change Requests for approval and distributionSAP’s master data management portfolio covers these broad customer needs with a comprehensive portfolio of MDM infrastructure and MDM applications. You might be well aware of our proven multi-domain infrastructure SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management, and of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services for Extract Transform and Load (ETL) scenarios as well as for Data Quality improvements like address cleansing or duplicate detection.

With SAP Master Data Governance (SAP MDG), we are complementing this portfolio with an increasing number of governance applications for selected master data domains, all tailored for centralized data maintenance and ready to run in SAP environments. SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010 provides you not only with an extension for SAP MDG for financials master data but also with new SAP MDG applications for supplier and material master data.

This new version of SAP Master Data Governance goes into ramp-up shipment to customers on December 20, 2010 together with Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

SAP Master Data Governance

SAP Master Data Governance is a family of process-centric applications that provide centralized governance for selected master data domains based on SAP's standard data models. The applications come with a native integration with the Business Suite, using existing business logic and customer-specific configuration for validation of master data while it is being created. SAP MDG integrates with SAP Business Objects Data Services (DS) for data quality and enrichment. It uses the data quality engine in DS to inform the user about duplicate data sets and uses DS’s rich address enrichment features to support users in entering correct addresses for their business partners.

Figure 3: Creating a Change Request for a Group Account Figure 4: Maintaining the Master Data of a new supplier

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