4MDG
What is 4MDG?
4MDG is a multi-tenant SaaS Master Data Management (MDM) platform for material, service, customer, and supplier records. It creates golden records through configurable models and approval workflows, then publishes them to ERP and adjacent systems. Matching, survivorship, and enrichment against official registries supply the Data Quality work that keeps those records complete and unique.
Key Capabilities
- Domains and golden records: Materials, MRO, resale products, services (PDS), customers, and suppliers. Each domain has its own model, owners, and flows. A golden record is the approved version published to consuming systems.
- Descriptive Material Standard (PDM): Attribute templates by material family produce short and long descriptions (short description sized to the ERP field). Matching compares attributes, not free text. UNSPSC (segment / family / class / commodity) is assigned in the same flow. Brazilian tax codes (NCM, NBS, service codes) are proposed from the structured description.
- Deduplication and enrichment: Similarity scoring and attribute-level survivorship merge duplicates. Customer and supplier records are checked against public registries (Receita Federal, Simples Nacional, Sintegra, and more than 600 sources the vendor lists). CNPJ and CPF are validated before a record is created. Units of measure, packaging, and ANVISA attributes can be filled when they apply.
- Governance workflows: Low-code models and flows (steps, sections, field types, masks, nested AND/OR rules). Approval steps can enforce segregation of duties. Deadlines use a business-hours calendar. External parties complete an invited step over a secure link without an account. Six platform roles: Curator, Architect, Guardian, Inspector, Maintainer, Administrator. Full versioned history per record, including channel (UI, API, assistant, MCP, bulk load).
- ADAM: An in-platform assistant per role. It drafts descriptions, NCM/UNSPSC, and registry lookups; flags similar records; and answers natural-language queries. Suggestions carry origin and evidence. Create, change, publish, and promote require a human confirmation. Each organization picks a model from a curated catalog and sets a monthly spend cap.
- ERP load and migration: Approved records go to SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA (material master and Business Partner), Oracle, TOTVS/Protheus, and other ERPs by REST, IDoc, BAPI, file, or signed connector (Ed25519). Cleansing is done before load on ECC-to-S/4HANA and rollout projects.
- Data as a Service: 4MDG can run registration and ongoing cleansing under an SLA, on the same platform and rules.
Audience & Use Cases
- Audience: Master-data stewards, procurement and tax teams, and SAP/Oracle/TOTVS integration owners at mid-size and large companies, especially Brazilian and other Americas operations that need Portuguese, English, and Spanish and native CNPJ/CPF/NCM handling.
- Use cases: Material catalog standardization and UNSPSC/NCM classification; supplier qualification and customer onboarding with registry checks; one-time cleansing of a dirty master; continuous DaaS; SAP S/4HANA data migration with a clean load.
Technical Specifications
- Deployment: Multi-tenant SaaS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (São Paulo region); Cloudflare edge, TLS 1.2+; Docker/Kubernetes; managed PostgreSQL with in-database BM25 search; PostgreSQL-native queues; per-organization database isolation; dedicated subdomain per tenant.
- APIs and identity: OpenAPI REST (OAuth 2.0 service accounts); native MCP server (HTTP streamable, user OAuth, same row-level permissions); SSO via SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect; SCIM 2.0; passkeys and mandatory MFA for password login.
- Connectors: Receita Federal, Simples Nacional, Sintegra; open SDK for custom connectors; SAP Ariba, Salesforce, ServiceNow, WMS/TMS, data lake/BI listed as integration targets.
- Security: ISO/IEC 27001; LGPD and GDPR stated as in-scope; audit trail per field change.
- Scale (vendor-published): 160 clients in 6 countries; about 60 million records under management; 127,000 platform users. One published ECC-to-S/4HANA migration: 241,000 materials, 59,000 suppliers, 13,000 customers.
Categories & Use Cases
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay |
| Supported Languages | Portuguese, English, Spanish |
FAQs
What are 4MDG's top competitors?
Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Stibo Systems Multidomain MDM are common alternatives for 4MDG.
Who uses 4MDG?
The most common users of 4MDG are from Enterprise.