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SAP Master Data Governance

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What is SAP Master Data Governance?

SAP Master Data Governance is a master data management solution that helps users to implement a cohesive and harmonized master data management strategy across all master data domains. It is presented as a solution that simplifies enterprise data management, increases…

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What is SAP Master Data Governance?

SAP Master Data Governance is a master data management solution that helps users to implement a cohesive and harmonized master data management strategy across all master data domains. It is presented as a solution that simplifies enterprise data management, increases data accuracy, and that facilitates consolidation, central governance and data quality management.

The SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition, a cloud-native solution provides a complementary deployment option for SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA. It also allows companies to kick-start a net new corporate master data management initiative at a very low entry barrier, with the option to build out additional master data governance use cases at their own speed.

Integration with other SAP solutions supports the reuse of data models, business logic, and validation frameworks with open integration to third-party products and services to support the entire technology stack.

SAP Master Data Governance Features

  • Supported: Data Consolidation
  • Supported: Data Governance
  • Supported: Data Quality Management
  • Supported: Mass Processing
  • Supported: Process Analytics

SAP Master Data Governance Screenshots

Screenshot of Data consolidation:  An integrated database of customer, supplier, and product information calls for a consumer-grade user experience and an intuitive, flexible process.Screenshot of Central data governance: The inbox in support of data governance workflows.  By centralizing your heterogeneous systems into a single source, you can create, maintain, and distribute master data across your enterprise.Screenshot of Mass processing: Master data stewards can perform bulk changes in business partner, customer, supplier, and product data with highly-effective mass change processes.Screenshot of Data quality management: Business rules that are defined, validated, and monitored help safeguard master data
readiness and ensure that it’s fit for use.Screenshot of Process analytics: Data governance is significantly enhanced when master data is continuously measured and monitored.

SAP Master Data Governance Videos

Watch An overview video of SAP Master Data Governance capabilities for master data consolidation and data quality management.

Watch SAP Master Data Governance ensures the quality of master data from insight to action.

Watch How SAP Master Data Governance supports operational excellence, enterprise analytics, and compliance with government and industry regulations with data quality rule mining.

Watch How to create a business partner in SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition leveraging central governance capabilities.

Watch A demonstration of how to manage the quality of master data based on data quality rules using the Data Quality Management capabilities of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition

Watch How SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition can act as an accelerant in an organization's master data management journey.

SAP Master Data Governance Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, AIX 64, HP-UX ON IA64, FOR ZSERIES, LINUX ON POWER BIG ENDIAN, OS/400, SOLARIS FOR X64, SOLARIS/SPARC 64, Z/OS
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesSAP MDG is provided in 30 languages. Additional localization possible.

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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.6.

The most common users of SAP Master Data Governance are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am an approver for new customer creation. I use SAP Master Data Governance to review that customer data is correct, documentation attachments are proper and payment terms are in compliance with company policy The business problems were lack of tracking, manual processing and lack of audit trail. Scope is all US customer operations.
  • Clean user interface
  • Customer creation data in one place
  • Workflow approvals
  • I’d like to see more information on the email notifications before having to log into the system
Very well suited for new customer creation and changes to customer master data
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Master Data Governance offers innovative integrated way to manage master data as enterprise asset. To improve data integrity and interpretation across organization...Scope are MDG-S and MDG-M
  • Native Integration with SAP S/4HANA
  • Inituitive workflow
  • Seamless Data replication
  • enhanced user experience
  • simplify data model enhancement
  • add more OOTB BRF
Native integration with SAP S/4HANA and other SaaS applications
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The challenges we face the most is the manual process for GRC upgrade and the audit process.
  • SOD conflicts
  • automation
We use the basic tools for GRC to look for SOD conflicts. Our biggest challenge at the moment is the upgrade where we are manually updating the information item per item.
Pankaj Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using SAP Master Data Governance, our team can maintain the organization of our critical data. It assists us in resolving issues with sloppy data. It ensures that everyone on our team follows the same data guidelines, preventing misunderstandings. We utilize it for a wide range of purposes, including customer and product information, among others. Our team operates efficiently and there is no data confusion because of the SAP's assistance in keeping everything organized.
  • SAP fixes data mistakes automatically so data stays clean without doing much
  • SAP Help to follow the data rules as it give reminders.
  • Data flow and management is very easy
  • Simple user interface help to see the things easily
  • Data Fixing is faster incase any goes worng
  • Notifications are very good, just like reminder
SAP Master Data Governance shines in large enterprises where there's a massive amount of data to manage. It keeps everything organized and ensures data consistency across various departments
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization utilizes SAP Master Data Governance to address business problems related to maintaining and managing consistent, accurate master data across various domains, enhancing data quality, and ensuring compliance. The scope of our use case involves implementing robust data governance processes to streamline operations and improve overall data reliability.
  • SAP Master Data Governance excels in centralizing, harmonizing, and enforcing data quality standards, fostering collaboration for efficient master data management.
  • SAP Master Data Governance could benefit from enhanced flexibility in configuration, streamlined user interfaces, and improved agility in adapting to evolving data governance requirements, addressing potential areas for improvement.
SAP Master Data Governance is well-suited for large enterprises with complex data structures requiring centralized control, while it may be less appropriate for smaller businesses with simpler data needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as a software solution which helps us in managing our master data in a centralized way. As master data is a combination of many other data such as consumer data, product data and employee data. Master data is very difficult to comprehend so SAP Master Data Governance helps us to ensure data quality and integrity.
  • Manage inconsistent data
  • Manage Data quality
  • Efficiency
  • Integration with other tools is difficult
  • easy to use but proper training is needed
  • Costs
We faced a lots of issues with inconsistent master data it provided us with a centralized system to manage our master data. The data provided after processing from SAP Master Data Governance is of high quality without any errors. SAP Master Data Governance also increases the efficiency of the system as well. According to me it can be used anywhere as its very versatile.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Business problem: Master data is not centralized but rather in different systems, which causes inconsistencies and difficulties to manage business objects properly.
SAP Master Data Governance has enabled the centralized governance of master data we are aiming for.
Scope: BPs, CoA, Cost centers, profit centers among others.
  • Workflow
  • Data governance
  • Synchronization
  • UI/UX
  • Key mapping’s usability
Well suited: For SAP Master Data Governance in the business objects under scope the solution has provided consistency, data integrity and security in terms of access to modify such business objects.

Less appropriate: The troubleshooting and monitoring part of the job is challenging, for instance, to be able to identify errors we need to ask the technical team, which functionally speaking is not the best option.
Miko Carlo De Leon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP Master Data Governance for ECC to S4H Upgrade Vendor, Customer Master Data to Business Partner and Partner Functions
  • Partner Functions
  • Streamlined Process
  • Mobile Approval
  • Workflow
SAP Master Data Governance is good for Partner Functions
RAMPRABU Maheshwaran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
1. Primarily it addresses include data quality issues, data inconsistency across departments, and compliance with data governance standards and regulations.

2. Our use case for SAP Master Data Governance has a broad scope, encompassing multiple data domains and business units
  • User-Friendly Data Maintenance
  • Master Data Consolidation
  • Better Data Governance Workflows
  • Performance Optimization - Handling large data is difficult
  • User Interface - Some of company employees find the software interface as not a modern one
  • Integration Flexibility - Less integration flexibility with other business tools.
Best Suitable:
1. Good for us as we're bigger organization.
2. Places were high quality data & Compliance mandates.
3. Complex data management projects
4. To have better workflow in a place

Less suitable:
1. For small to medium size organization.
2. For short duration projects/ requirements.
3. Non-SAP environments or limited ITIS team members
4. Also, to handle simple data structure
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was used as the global Material Master for the company and served as Federated hub towards legacy and S4 system.
We used it for create once use many times on materials and Business partner, we started on the journey to have BOM, routing and Production version and a global component program in a scattered system landscape.
  • Clear governance process
  • One source of truth
  • Great workflows
  • No support for transferring alternate BOM as standard
  • Greater support for other data objects
Large global organizations with a scattered Legacy footprint
November 09, 2023

LOVE IT

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MDG as Hub , maintain and manage Business Partner (Customer &b Supplier) , Finance Objects and Products master. Data Owners and Governance. We are trying to implement DQM
  • Governance Part and Workflow
  • Data Replication
  • Data Key Mapping
  • Cross reference (Example Value Mapping ) not a user friendly , We would like to build an user interface so that business users can maintain
  • Not all the Data domain FIORI capability , lot of challenges using FIORI app
  • We Would like to give more business user to manage and maintain the Rules
MDG works very well in Hub model
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Master Data Governance helps to manage the single source of truth for our company-wide master data across all domains. Using this we integrate multiple application to get the master data from single source that is used for reporting, dashboards, analytics, forecasting, decision making and increasing the efficiency across mutiple system.
  • Improving data quality
  • Integration with other applications
  • Ability to validate duplicate data in workflow
  • Documentation
  • Metrics
  • Reports to see high level information of the data
SAP Master Data Governance is a must have for all the sample or large scale firm. With SAP Master Data Governance cloud availability it makes easier to implement and support. Data governance at its best. Easy to configure and simple to integrate. Many resources are available in the market so no issues with the resource mapping for this product.
October 14, 2023

Good product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to pull together our master data and manage it centrally using a master data management layer based on sap business technology platform
  • Centralised management
  • Dashboard
  • Merging duplicates
  • Pricing
  • User friendliness
It is useful in managing huge amount of data and we do not need to go to multiple sources to manage as it helps to pull together the data in a centralised place
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently upgrading the older release of SAP Master Data Management (MDM) to SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) as we upgrade the rest of our ERP software to SAP S/4HANA that requires an upgrade of MDM to MDG.
  • Master data version control
  • Master data de-duplication
  • Proactive prevention of duplication of master data
  • Scrubbing of old imported master data from other systems
  • Managing availability of clean master data to other modules of SAP and other non-SAP systems
  • SAP can benefit by adding more out-of-the-box, included interfaces to non-SAP systems that often exchange data with SAP
  • More MDG training especially delta training for prior users of MDM would help
SAP Master Data Governance is great for companies like ours that has extensive usage of various SAP ERP modules. SAP Master Data Governance may not be the best fit for companies that have other ERP providers like Oracle, Infor, MS Dynamics and other ERP software.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Data collected from siloed sources which is consolidated needs to be monitored and governed which is why we use SAP Master data governance for our clients
  • DQ Ops
  • Match/Merge
  • Data Cleansing
  • Search Feature
  • Automation
It is very useful when you are ingesting millions of data sets from disparate sources .
KAUSHIK DEBNATH | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Hi,
Generally we use SAP Master Data Governance system to analyse and eliminate unnecessary duplicate Master Data records. We also use to gain insights on how the data is used and consumed by users
  • Build context for complex data
  • Data changes track record maintaining
  • Restructure, rationalize master data
  • recently with new S4 hana use, there came a lot of integration areas
  • more simplified add-on tool can become helpful
  • Creation of Raw material data if can be used in a more interactive way
analyse, improve data quality
removal of duplicate records making it more useful for users and this helps avoid errors in filling data to the system
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Master Data Governance was implemented to control the master data governance for material, customer, and vendor. It was initially implemented for Brazil and then rolled out to the USA and Mexico. The main problems were inefficient governance process, bad master data quality, and lack of visibility and control. There was also a big challenge for managing MRO and non-MRO material in the United States with a very complex requirement of description generation.
  • Workflow
  • Data Quality Rules
  • Data Validation Rules
  • Data Replication
  • User interface
  • Mass creation and update performance
  • Replication of reference tables from S/4 or ECC to MDG HUB
We believe that SAP Master Data Governance fits well in an SAP landscape with SAP systems. If you get a hybrid landscape with different data models, it requires a bit more effort to get the solution configured. All the existent validations and UI are SAP data model focused. The replication is also straightforward with SAP systems. I would say it is less appropriate if you only have non-SAP systems in your landscape.
Ramesh Kalammanavar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP Master Data, we develop software product for enterprise asset management ( focussed) and our flagship product Asset Information workbench. Which Uses SAPs MDG Framework wrapped on MDG EAM product. problem that MDG addresses are a) Single source of truth b) MDG master data can be replicated to transactional system which helps business to manage synchronous data c) Addresses complex business scenarios and make life easy in managing Asset hierarchies.
  • Managing almost all back-end ERP/S4HANA business cases
  • Flexible, Customizable and Business rules can be easily managed by business..
  • everything what we does on master data creation, approval are documented well, means there would be no Audit issues.
  • Global Address validation done and minimized chance of errors in address management
  • Custom objects can be built on same MDG Framework means low TCO.
  • Fiori platform flexibility is not there, need high technical expertise and cost in building SAP Fiori apps, OfCourse standard Apps can be used with ease like plug and play.
  • It is hard to build custom solutions of SAP MDG , but easy to use as standard product.
MDG is a necessary in asset intensive industries where asset Aquisition, maintenance and Retirement happens all across year and globe.
Oil and Gas, Petrochemical complex, Process industries and many more.
Prior to 1990's, issuing a material was a great learning, because to issue a bearing from stores department requestor has to have knowledge of inventory register and material classification well. Or else searching material code itself was time consuming. forgot about managing inventory.
MDG is not necessary in many small-scale industries where business can easily manage material and its complexity.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It controls the data governance with the requester and approved roles and is seamlessly integrated with S4.
  • Workflow
  • Requester and Approver roles
  • Front end navigation
  • AI-based controls
  • Better controls on mass processing
  • Should be easy to implement custom business rules
It’s appropriate for regulated industries where more stringent governance is needed. It’s not required for non-regulated industries, such as retail businesses.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Master Data Governance allows me to improve the quality of data by collecting, preparing modeling and visualizing from multiple sources.
  • It reduce data deduplications.
  • Reduce manual tasks when modeling and visualizing data.
  • Unify data from multi-cloud and on-premise services in one single integrated repository.
  • I do not like that fact that SAP Master Data Governance lack mobility support.
  • There’s deficiency in documentation for features available online.
SAP MDG create a single spot of truth by unifying data across multiple sources for real-time visualization when making business decisions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, SAP Master Data Governance is very helpful in managing master data since it gives more storage space for data, which helps to minimize duplicate data and data discrepancies. benefits of managing master data centrally. I think SAP Master Data Governance is highly useful for managing reference data, data duplication and transfer to new resources, general data management challenges, and team organization. It used to be tough to keep things consistent across many departments in our business, but with this platform, communication is straightforward, and we have already standardized our procedures and language. For us, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) is a useful data analytics production solution; data reporting is exceptionally accurate; project data management is superb; and data transmission is lightning quick.
  • I can easily access and use a wide range of data points for executive decision making.
  • For me, the biggest feature is its data governance features, which enable us manage our data across departments and even with our clients.
  • For us, it offers excellent functionality and a centralized place for managing data across the company; most of all, it eliminates duplicate and incorrect data from the database.
  • The learning curve is steep, and I think the build procedures might be challenging at first because we are transitioning from a non-systematic data management perspective.
  • My team and I believe that its integration into learning new capabilities is complicated and limiting in terms of customizing reports.
In my experience, it is highly suited for the ability to assign and view existing responsibilities that are particular to distinct domains such as HR, Finance, and Payroll. The data transfer went easily, and we discovered that SAP Master Data Governance works well with the connection, and I believe it will function well with other applications as well, so the benefit is that it is all-encompassing in collecting whatever the organization does on a daily basis.
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