Master Data

Integration
& Management
in the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP’s Integrated Intelligent Suite

The path towards integrated, end-to-end business planning and processes
spanning across all business-critical applications in real-time, supported by
an evolving suite experience and the SAP Business Technology Platform.

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Business Applications

Suite Qualities

Seamless user One workflow End-to-end Aligned domain

experience inbox process blueprints models

Consistent security Coordinated lifecycle Embedded & cross-

& ID management management product analytics

Business Technology Platform

Domain Model Alignment

SAP ONE DOMAIN MODEL
To achieve the integrated, intelligent enterprise, companies expect a coherent
enterprise data model with common semantics that can be used to exchange
data between business applications of the intelligent suite and its ecosystem.

“the lingua franca”

of SAP

Why?
Helps establish out-of-the-box integration from SAP to SAP applications and
lower integration efforts for customers and partners in landscapes containing
more than SAP.

Extensions
are overlaps of
Application attributes shared
between apps
examples
• SAP S/4HANA Common
• SAP Customer includes must have
Data Platform attributes, intrinsic to
• SAP Ariba defining domain basics

Attributes
only locally used

Pre-built Integration
SAP MASTER DATA INTEGRATION

SAP Master Data Integration (MDI) uses SAP One Data Model for out-of-the-box
SAP integration and openness to non-SAP environments. The resulting ease of
integration is created as you only need to learn a single language, not multiple
methods, to integrate across your application landscape.

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Deliver unprecedented Manage procurement and Attract, manage, and retain Develop and manufacture
customer experience spend like never before the best talent the most innovative products

MASTER DATA INTEGRATION

SAP
Business
Technology
Platform

Out-of-the-box integration for relevant SAP applications planned according to roadmap.

Journey from Master Data Integration

to Master Data Management
Companies can then evolve their strategy for master data
integration to active master data management.
• Master data integration refers to • Master data management is about
the synchronization of master improving the overall quality and trust
data across all applications in its level for master data, prioritizing
current state investments for selected domains
according to their business needs

Both Integration &

Point-to-Point Connection Master Data Synchronization Management of Master Data

Procurement Procurement Procurement

Commerce Service
Commerce Service Commerce Service

MDI
Services MDI
Services
Marketing Billing
Marketing Billing Marketing Billing

SAP SAP
S/4HANA SAP SAP
S/4HANA
S/4HANA MDG

What you often find in many organizations is that for master data integration,
these companies are targeting a very broad domain coverage because this is
needed to achieve that end-to-end process integration.
On the other hand, corporate-wide master data management is an undertaking
that needs more focus and investment - to define quality standards, establish
governance processes and create the organization to support.
With a combination of SAP Master Data Governance and SAP Business
Technology Platform Master Data Integrated services, companies can
selectively decide to do integration on many domains, and to focus on master
data management on less domains, wherever they see the highest return for
quality improvement.

Markus Kuppe
Vice President, SAP Master Data Governance

Master Data Integration +

Master Data Management
Master data integration is complemented by SAP Master Data Governance
(MDG) to help ensure quality and trust in master data, with key capabilities
including central governance, consolidation and data quality management.
The combination of the two disciplines allows for new agile approaches for
managing master data across an enterprise.

SAP MASTER DATA GOVERNANCE

Central Data Master Data Data Quality
Governance Consolidation Management

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MASTER DATA INTEGRATION

SAP
Business
Technology
Platform

Note that companies today might be using SAP MDG for both management and integration of master data.
They can continue to do so, but it might make sense to consider separation of the two disciplines.

SAP Master Data Governance,

CLOUD EDITION
Setting the right level of centralization and harmonization
for effective master data management
With SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition, organizations can federate
a network of master data governance systems. Each of them applying
governance and stewardship to a different subset of master data attributes. All
these systems will eventually work in coordinated processes, to help ensure
that master data is managed at that exact place in the organization where it is
best understood.

SAP MASTER DATA GOVERNANCE

Central Data Master Data Data Quality
Governance Consolidation Management

Deployment options

Centrally-managed Federated Local MDG

enterprise MDG enterprise MDG for one system

Manage core as well as Manage core master data Manage local master
application-specific attributes at corporate data for one SAP
aspects of master data level and federate systems S/4HANA Cloud System
to centrally control key for agile governance of
master data processes in application-specific master
heterogeneous landscapes data attributes in cloud
and hybrid landscapes

ENABLED FOR MANAGE CORE MASTER ENABLED FOR

FEDERATION DATA ATTRIBUTES FEDERATION

PRODUCTS
SAP Master Data SAP Master Data Governance, SAP S/4HANA
Governance on SAP cloud edition in federation with the Cloud for master
S/4HANA (or S/4HANA suiting combination of SAP MDG on data governance
Cloud, extended edition) S/4HANA on-premise or cloud

Non-disruptive for current users, easy starting point for new users

Net new customers can simply Existing SAP MDG customers can
subscribe to SAP MDG, cloud edition fully leverage all investments they
as a very quick start into master have done into SAP MDG so far.
data management. And from that And then, without disruption, they
starting point they can federate out can federate out into areas of their
beyond core attributes, into the enterprise that they have not
application-specific attributes. governed so far.

SAP
Business
Technology
Platform

SAP Master Data Governance,

CLOUD EDITION

MASTER
DATA
INTEGRATION
PROCESS DATA
FEDERATION INTEGRATION

SAP SAP Customer SAP

S/4HANA Data Platform ARIBA
etc.

MANAGED BY SAP MDG ON S/4HANA

Support for federation of SAP MDG processes and scenarios planned for future releases, according to roadmap

More choices, less constraints and

increased flexibility on your master data
management scope and journey

To learn more, visit

SAP Integration Plan in the Cloud
SAP Master Data Governance and
SAP solutions for Database and Data Management.

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