SAP Master Data Governance Review
Updated March 21, 2023

SAP Master Data Governance Review

Weijia Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Master Data Governance

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.
  • The process is streamlined and easy to follow
  • Proper validation
  • Continue to improve user interface experience
  • Sometimes configuration is hard to locate
  • Performance could be a concern when running a large amount of data
  • It centralized the master data process so there is more efficiency gain
  • Large amount of data may cause performance issue
  • User interface needs to be improved
SAP Master Data Governance is part of central finance/HANA implementation. That is why we used it.
Overall, SAP Master Data Governance works to support our project in central finance/HANA, though there is room for further improvements such as performance and user experience.
Overall, SAP Master Data Governance works as expected.
The prebuilt offers a standard package of solutions. SAP Master Data Governance increases efficiency and helps the organization to get to the value quickly.
SAP Master Data Governance is the standard module we use to support our business. No reuse.
It works with central finance and HANA systems to provide master data governance.

Do you think SAP Master Data Governance delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Master Data Governance's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Master Data Governance live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Master Data Governance go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Master Data Governance again?

Yes

I think SAP Master Data Governance is well built, though additional improvement is welcome.

Using SAP Master Data Governance

30 - finance/IT
10 - finance/IT basis/security
  • one single source of truth
  • leave it to the experienced data steward
  • not much, we just started
  • still exploring new features.
it has a good work process flow with request, review and approval.

Evaluating SAP Master Data Governance and Competitors

  • Integration with Other Systems
S4HANA
good to have all the master data in one central location

SAP Master Data Governance Implementation

critical to get management on board earlier and prioritize the resources
  • Third-party professional services
Deloitte/SAP consultant
Change management was a major issue with the implementation - change management is critical
  • user testing
  • user training
  • change management

SAP Master Data Governance Support

ProsCons
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support cares about my success
None
enterprise client support
I would say, sometimes the response is excellent but not all the time.

Using SAP Master Data Governance

ProsCons
Like to use
Well integrated
Feel confident using
None
  • master data in one central location
  • user access management
  • adapted to fiori apps on MDG