SAP Master Data Governance Reviews

If you are in a large company, spanning many legal entities and are using SAP ERP as your main transactional system, SAP MDG is a great choice with many possibilities. Furthermore, if your landscape includes many products in the SAP family where data synchronization is required, it is also a great choice. If you are looking for a generic platform for data replication among many different non-SAP systems, you should careful study how this would work in practice. Additionally, if you are also looking for a data quality reporting platform, the combination of SAP MDG, Information Steward, and Data Services is very powerful and capable to achieve this.

SAP Master Data Governance is best suited to manage any master data across any enterprise. The availability to work with product characteristics allows you to define what is needed for each kind of product. Also, it can be used to provide data to third-party systems. In some cases, it is difficult to fit the specific and vertical requirements of certain industries.

Large organizations with multiple business units operating across regions and geographies will benefit greatly from SAP Master Data Governance. Companies like ours where acquisitions are a norm, we face severe challenges with IT Data consolidation due to too much duplicate data. Our procurement, finance and sales data go a huge facelift with SAP [Master Data Governance].

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.

It is great for a university environment because it can be used to standardize the data collection procedures and some tasks.

SAP MDG is clearly focused on those organizations that have to manage a huge amount of data with several sources. It allows you to consolidate and update the data in one single place. Also, it can be used to provide data to third-party systems.

The solution has fit perfectly with all the industries I worked in. The availability to work with product characteristics allows you to define what is needed for each kind of product. Providing a strong vertical solution with a transversal base.

The answer is mainly based on the volume of the data. In case you have a huge amount of objects (product, customers, ...) and every single entity has many entry points is a strong recommendation. The tool allows customizing alerts of completion and data quality that helps a lo having good data in the system,

SAP Master Data Governance is best suited to manage any master data across any enterprise.