Business Case :ABAP APIs in SAP MDM

Question

SDNers,
Kindly share your views on Business-case application(s) of ABAP APIs fron the perspective of SAP Master Data Managment.
Regards,
KAV

Answer 1

Hi krutarth,
ABAP API (Application programming interface) are interface programming written in R/3 system to manage MDM activies through R/3. or
The MDM ABAP API empowers ABAP-based applications to control MDM Servers using most of the functions available in the MDM Console and MDM Data Manager
applications.
1) It enables an R/3 system to access the administrative
functionalities of the MDM Server.
For E.g.
Create repository,
Connect to repository,
Load repository,
Create role,
Create user
Retrieve roles,
Retrieve users
Create client system
Retrieve client systems
Retrieve tables
-Retrieve table fields
Activate trace
2)It also enables R/3 system to access the data processing**
*functions of the MDM Server.*For e.g.
Create a transformation
Retrieve a transformation
Create rules
Retrieve rules
Create a strategy
Retrieve a strategy
Invoke matching
Invoke a matching value check
Retrieve a matching result
and many more.
If u find this helpful then do reward points.
Regards,
Neethu Joy.
Edited by: Neethu joy on Feb 29, 2008 9:01 AM