Item: SAP Master Data Governance
Rating: 9
Author: KAUSHIK DEBNATH

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

some AI tools started giving some of the MDG tools functionality, this needs adapt
from business end users prospective, its very essential to have lesser duplicate records

Alternatives Considered

Boomi, TIBCO EBX and Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud

SAP being a global ERP product supporting most of the business module, became one of the most popular ERP solution. The use of MDG module came in really handy as we could inter-corelate them & use easily with other SAP modules & data exchange becomes more easy and convenient

Support Rating

SAP support has always been good and helpful for any SAP products. Unlike other SAP modules, we also came across some obstacles as our developers proceeded to make custom functions. We have good support from SAP side upon raising ticket for those and were resolved pretty quick

Usability

SAP Master Data Governance is a market-leading solution that allows you to define, enforce, monitor, and improve master data across domains for central or decentralized master data management in hybrid landscapes. MDG framework can use the package size to read data for BW data extraction and at the same time keep the search method and criteria consistent in the search UI when switching entity type or search method

Time To Value

for finance team, SAP MDG use has been helpful in displaying of the current hierarchy assignment in single object maintenance UIs. It also provides improved usability of the assignment of company codes to profit centers. This helps in improved error handling at mass and thus resulting into better user experience

Comprehensive Solution

Greater improvements for data quality evaluation was achieved using SAP MDG. This ultimately resulted very well in Performance Improvements. for SAP finance & controlling team, automatic derivation of partner functions and tax indicators was achieved by use of SAP MDG functions

Integrations

We can use MDM business content to integrate data. There are very good integration capabilities such as the SAP Data Replication Framework (DRF) if used with SAP MDG for S/4 Hana system

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Twilio Segment, TIBCO EBX, Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

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

SAP MDG use for improving business data

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Master Data Governance