SAP MDM features

Question

Hi
Could someone tell me if SAP MDM has these features?
u2022     Security
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Site level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Area ( Logical Grouping like SNOP) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Role ( Logical grouping like SCDH, GMP) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Object ( Can be a page or a subset on a page) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign actions-object combination to a role
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Row Level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Column Level
u2022     Ability to inherit role characteristics to another role
u2022     Ability for one role characteristics to override the characteristics chosen for another role, while inherting ( Denial to update an Object for a role, should remain the same even if the role gets inherited
u2022     Ability to audit any changes to Security on any Role/Object/Action (Will be tracked against BR5.1)
u2022     
u2022     Ability to handle Master Detail relationship
u2022     Ability to handle MultiLevel data Hierarchy
u2022     Ability to handle Dependency List
u2022     Ability to maintain detail data in tabs on the same page
u2022     Ability to mandate the need to enter Detail data for a new Master record, or tie a new Detail record to an existing Master record
u2022     
u2022     Ability to handle import and export of predefined formats
u2022     Ability to import and parse CSV, XLS and TXT files
u2022     Ability to import and parse XML files
u2022     Ability to export data in PDF format
u2022     
u2022     Ability to handle Approval Process for data entered
u2022     Ability to configure Approvers with Approval Levels at the time of object configuration
u2022     Ability to prevent an Approver with lower Approval Level to approve data, before the higher level Approvals are obtained
u2022     Ability to send an email to the required approvers, with the link to the page/object needing approval
u2022     Ability to authenticate the NT login of the approver, accessing a page/object via a link on an email
u2022     Ability to approve through email, by linking to a webservice
u2022     Ability for the user to nominate a proxy for a given time duration
u2022     Ability to control deletion of an approver through Admin access
u2022     Ability to identify data that has not been approved and prevent database access to it.
u2022     Ability to provide read-only access to data that has not been approved
u2022     Ability to message out changes/addition on Master data to all Subscribers.
u2022     Ability to message out potential changes on Master data to all Subscribers
u2022     Ability to add an approver/subscriber to any step of the entire approval process
u2022     Ability to prevent any further actions like export/import to data that has not been approved
u2022     
u2022     Ability to provide Historical Reports to identify how tool is used and highlight areas with most frequent changes
u2022     Ability to capture and view all historical changes to user access
u2022     Ability to capture and view all historical changes to data
u2022     Ability to capture data range for all Master data, to indicate the validity of a data element.
u2022     
u2022     Ability to provide a Dashboard to display data entered
u2022     Ability to provide read-only access to any data maintained throught the MDM
u2022     Ability to capture each page/object added to the MDM, and provide it as a drop-down list for the user to choose from
u2022     Ability to choose filter and view data for each page/object chosen
u2022     
u2022     Ability to access Help Documentation / List of Contacts for each screen
u2022     Ability to maintain a Help document for each page/object
u2022     Ability to maintain Tool Tips for each column in a Page
u2022     Ability to provide a List of Contacts for each page/object
u2022     
u2022     Ability to access data via a Web Service
u2022     Ability to access all data through Composite webservice
u2022     
u2022     Ability to provide Maintenance features
u2022     Ability to provide Grid Feature which allows Search, Sort, Grouping and Pagenation capabilities for all maintenance screens
u2022     Ability to provide Lookups for Standard Input fields like Date time. Lookup would be dependant on the client location
u2022     Ability to provide timeout on inactivity, on the site
u2022     
u2022     Ability to add Favorites
u2022     Ability to add Recently Accessed Pages as Favourites, at a Site Level
u2022     Ability to choose views of a page and make it a Favourite, so that every consequent login, gives the same look for the same Object
u2022     
u2022     Ability to Support MultiLanguage
u2022     Ability to provide Labels/Legends in Multilanguage
u2022     
u2022     Business Rules to Validate Data

Answer 1

Hello mkhairi
For more of your question answer -YES
SAP MDM support trusted connection technology and LDAP
SAP MDM has own user role functionality where you can set permissions for user security
SAP MDM has JAVA,ABAP, COM, .NET(ver.7.1) API and you can use it for custom development
SAP MDM has own web service for work with data in repository
SAP MDM has own packages for development SAP NetWeaver Portal content
SAP MDM has own workflow integrated with SAP NetWeaver Portal trough UWL
SAP MDM has application for web publishing
and many many other functionality from your list
more about SAP MDM you can read here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/index.htm
Regards
Kanstantsin Chernichenka