About MDM 5.5

Hi,
I would be very grateful to you if you answer the following questions:
1. Can we have an illustrated difference between Qualified field, Qualifiers, Product families & Data Groups?
2. Whether cross compatibility for different ERPs will be provided or not? (for Siebel, PeopleSoft etc)
In case of MDM 3.0, it was supposed to be developed on Project Basis.
3. Can we build a legacy system on top of Central Repository? If yes, how? Is Reverse Engineering possible?
4. Will there be separate repositories for IT scenarios, GDS & Catalog publishing?
How data is harmonized in SAP MDM 5.5? What is the difference between Syndicator, GDS & SCM?
(Don't they have overlapping functionality?)
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Satyen

1. Can we have an illustrated difference between Qualified field, Qualifiers, Product families & Data Groups?
The product families enables the repository content to be efficiently published not only to paper, but also to non-paper media like web. Whereas, datagroup are used to break the entire set of objects(pdfs, images etc) in the repository into the meaningful subgroups. This can compared with taxomany, which is used to define the heirarchy of categories.
2. Whether cross compatibility for different ERPs will be provided or not? (for Siebel, PeopleSoft etc)
In case of MDM 3.0, it was supposed to be developed on Project Basis.
There is no out-of-box support for integrating Siebel or peoplesfot etc.
3. Can we build a legacy system on top of Central Repository? If yes, how? Is Reverse Engineering possible?
I am not sure of what do you mean by building legacy systems. But MDM provides a set of java and com based api's to build applications using central repository.
4. Will there be separate repositories for IT scenarios, GDS & Catalog publishing?
How data is harmonized in SAP MDM 5.5? What is the difference between Syndicator, GDS & SCM?
As far as my knowledge goes there is no separate repository for IT scenarios, GDS and catalog publishing. GDS stores the trade item data in MDM repository iteself.
MDM data is harmonized by using the syndicator/Import manager and XI(for connecting to different systems).
Syndicator is a tool to export a subset of the repository data(could be anytype of master data) to other systems in either XML format or
text file. GDS console is used for enhancing and synchronizing the data with data pools.
I am not sure of the context for SCM here.
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Helpful and straighfarward ansers will be rewarded.
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SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management enables companies to consolidate and harmonize their master data within heterogeneous IT landscapes. It consistently delivers vastly reduced data maintenance costs, ensures cross-system data consistency, accelerates the execution of business processes, and greatly improves decision-making. In this context, SAP NetWeaver MDM is also indispensable within an Enterprise Services Architecture.
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So
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Future (Just read this article)
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Reading this article on SDN by Roman Rytov, I don't quite understand the concept of the informal MDM scenario which is called named "Data Hub".
What is the difference between Data Hub and Harmonization or Centralization exactly? Is the Data Hub scenario supposed to mean that source systems access master data directly from MDM (i.e. no local copy of the data in the source system, MDM holds the only copy of the master data)? Or does the scenario mean something else?
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> Reading this article on SDN by Roman Rytov, I don't
> quite understand the concept of the informal MDM
> scenario which is called named "Data Hub".
Hi Lars,
Thanks for reading the article. But before I explain the difference in the scenarios I wanted to point out that the article is not official and though I work for SAP the article reflects my own opinion and vision only.
> What is the difference between Data Hub and
> Harmonization or Centralization exactly? Is the Data
> Hub scenario supposed to mean that source systems
> access master data directly from MDM (i.e. no local
> copy of the data in the source system, MDM holds the
> only copy of the master data)? Or does the scenario
> mean something else?
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Roman
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> Lars

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