SAP Master Data Governance Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Customer creation data in one place
I’d like to see more information on the email notifications before having to log into the system

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employees

Native Integration with SAP S/4HANA
simplify data model enhancement

Rajan Pyndupal

Executive Consultant

Clients (Paper & Forest Products, 5001-10,000 employees)

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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.

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SAP Master Data Governance Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Windows, 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 Application	Apple iOS, Android
Supported Countries	Global
Supported Languages	SAP MDG is provided in 30 languages. Additional localization possible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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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October 12, 2023

Recommended with reservations

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 8 out of 10

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Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Return on Investment

Improved governance
Improved data quality
Improved visibility

Alternatives Considered

I have no experience with other products.

Support Rating

Usually the customer support takes a very long time to understand what is happening, process your message, and give you a solution, and sometimes you expend a month and you don't get a solution, even with the high priority messages. I believe the customer support in SAP Master Data Governance needs a lot of improvement.

Usability

Customers with SAP systems in their landscape can take a lot of advantages from having SAP Master Data Governance in their landscape. It has a very straightforward SAP-based UI, which makes it easier for the users to be trained. To create master data is likely to create a ticket in a service support system.

Time To Value

Again, customers who run SAP ECC or S/4 HANA can take advantage of having the same data models. If you want to implement a different object or a different data model, it gets a bit more complex to work with since everything on SAP Master Data Governance is based on SAP content.

Comprehensive Solution

In the customer landscape, we have used materials, customer, and vendor domains. Basically having the data models already in place for these domains expedited a lot of the project. Of course, it has needed some extensions, but having the start point in place saves huge time during the implementation of SAP Master Data Governance.

Integrations

We integrate with SAP ECC and SAP S/4 HANA.

Other Software Used

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Data Services, SAP Information Steward

Users and Roles

The business functions represented as per my knowledge are sales, marketing, for customer master creation, and Finance team in general to govern the finance objects such as cost Center, profit center and GL Account. For processing there are always the Data Organization to control and provide a final validation to the data.

Support Headcount Required

Usually, you need first and second level experts to provide a good level of support. Since some requests are critical and it may have some issues during replication of the data to target systems. All support team members provide support to all domains. There are no specific domain teams to support the operation.

Business Processes Supported

Data Governance of Customer and Finance Master Data
Data Quality enforcement across the business areas
Single Version of the Truth

Innovative Uses

By now there are no innovative ways

Future Planned Uses

Support company Cloud Systems data governance

Likelihood to Renew

MDG has proven to work and to bring results once implemented with the right approach, right engagement and sponsorship. Given that it is a very good tool to govern and control master data. Mainly if your company runs SAP systems which there will be a very straight forward integration, not needing any additional middleware or technologies.

Products Replaced

Not Sure

Key Differentiators

Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use

The main point was the native integration with our SAP System was key for the SAP MDG use. It integrates easily with these SAP systems and also it can integrate with non-sap systems. Considering a company running SAP ERP, bringing MDG would reduce the training efforts and other time-consuming activities.

Evaluation Lessons Learned

SAP Master Data Governance is a good tool and connects well with other SAP Software. However, it is an expensive product which demands a lot of negotiation to get interesting deal. For this process I would not change, since how goal was achieved successfully. In the end the overall product must bring value to the company.

Premium Support

There is no premium support in my company. It improves a lot the service and expedite since you have a representative to support you and intermediate. However, to get this premium support is quite expensive and needs a broader number of systems to be worth it not only MDG. Otherwise, it does not worth it the price.

Exceptional Examples of SAP Master Data Governance Support

I think we have never received an exceptional support from SAP at least based on feedback from colleagues. It always average, they have so many technical components and so many issues that when it reaches to a developer it takes time to get it processed, get the problem analyzed and solved.

August 27, 2023

SAP MDG Allows me to Improve Data Quality at Point of Making Business Decisions for 24.7.12.365

Sirena Frost

Communications Manager

Rise Brands (Management Consulting, 501-1000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Master Data Governance allows me to improve the quality of data by collecting, preparing modeling and visualizing from multiple sources.

Pros and Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP MDG create a single spot of truth by unifying data across multiple sources for real-time visualization when making business decisions.

Return on Investment

Data consolidation by unifying data in one place from SAP and non-SAP sources.
Central data governance allows business users to own specific master data attributes.
Improves data quality by reducing data deduplications.
Define, validate and monitor business rules.

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Both SAP MDG and TIBCO EBX had free trials, but upgrading on the latter was quite expensive.

Support Rating

SAP offers free support; the few times that I contacted them, I was able to rectify my error within two hours.

Usability

SAP Master Data Governance offers data profiling, catalog and master data tools that allows me to make informed decisions by unifying data and connecting to business context in real-time.

Time To Value

SAP Master Data Governance offered pre-integrated data models, workflows and business rules which accelerated implementation making it rapid to realize in the moment business decisions.

Integrations

SAP MDG has a robust backend integration capability that makes it easy to connect with SAP and non-SAP tools. SAP Ariba and central finance are among the applications that I have integrated with this tool.

Users and Roles

About 10-15 people in my agency use SAP Master Data Governance. Below is their functions. Community Manager Senior Technology Manager Corporate Controller Senior Product Designer Associate Creative Director Administrative Assistant Senior Modeler Data & AI - Solutions Specialist Sales - Data & Analytics Senior Solutions Architect

Support Headcount Required

To be able to support SAP MDG, one need to have master data management skills.

Business Processes Supported

SAP Master Data Governance improve data accuracy by harmonizing master data management strategy in our domains.
SAP MDG analyze master data management performance which help improve the quality of data by reducing deduplications.
Consolidate and centralize data governance.

Innovative Uses

Future Planned Uses

Likelihood to Renew

I am 100% sure that I will renew SAP Master Data Governance. It is the main repository for data governance in my organization.

March 21, 2023

SAP Master Data Governance Review

Weijia Li

Financial Analyst

Chevron (Oil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Master Data Governance is being used for all the master data creation, review, and approval. It centralized and streamlined the process and pretty much covers all the master data needed.