MDM Material Data and BI

I have a customer that will be sending material data from MDM to BI. In BI, they will be doing reporting using certain navigational attributes we've developed. From our experience, the process of using the navigational attributes seems slow as you step through and give each one a criteria.
Does it makes sense to do the lookup in MDM and send a list of material numbers to BI. I am thinking that might be faster but, he have no idea how this could be accomplished technically. Do you have any thoughts on using MDM to perform a quick search to get a list of materials and then sending the list to BI as the source for the reports.
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Paul

Hi Paul,
I have a customer that will be sending material data from MDM to BI. In BI, they will be doing reporting using certain navigational attributes we've developed. From our experience, the process of using the navigational attributes seems slow as you step through and give each one a criteria.
Does it makes sense to do the lookup in MDM and send a list of material numbers to BI. I am thinking that might be faster but, he have no idea how this could be accomplished technically. Do you have any thoughts on using MDM to perform a quick search to get a list of materials and then sending the list to BI as the source for the reports
In case of MDM and BI integration, there are several ways to perform the same.
1. Using File transfer system - As you have mentioned that in BI we define navigational attributes and transfer the Master data in the form of a .CSV file to BI, which then can report on both the Local Id's and the Global Id's.We had done this scenario with MDM SP04 and the reporting seemed to be good at that time.
2. With higher versions of MDM, there is a direct integration of MDM with BI using ABAP APi's. INfact the repository was created from BI in MDM server and only Data Manager is used in that case. You can go for this method as well. Plese find the link below to understand the same.
Integrating MDM with BI 7.0 Using Logical Connection Object, Part 1:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b01e4269-f744-2b10-929b-fa7b49aac540
Integrating MDM with BI 7.0 Using Logical Connection Object, Part 2:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d06a92de-614e-2b10-4989-d913c2154a64
Integrating MDM with BI 7.0 Using Logical Connection Object, Part 3:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00f0d853-936f-2b10-1880-d3deb1fbd858
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/45/5d3bfaa9ef3bdfe10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
3. Now coming to your requirement, if you want to use searches in MDM, then you can definitely do that in MDM. The records which get selected in the search creteria can be then syndicated to BI using the File transfer mechanism. This might increase up the speed as only few records will be syndicated as per the search creteria set. You can set the search in Syndicator directly.
Hope this info helps.
Thanks and Regards
Nitin Jain

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