SRM 7.0 on NW 7.01 with SAP MDM 3.0 Catalog

Hello,
We are implementing the following Components:
SRM 7.0
MDM 7.1
BI
PI 7.0
Portal 7.0
We are currently live with ECC 5.
We will be using the SAP MDM Catalog along with SRM. We will be also implementing MDM to use for Master Data Cleansing. I wanted to know whether we will need to install the SAP MDM Catalog on the SRM7.0 system or can we install it on the MDM 7.1 system and then connect it to SRM?
Any pros/cons if we can use it as part of the MDM landscape?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Sheldon,
Great question. Technically speaking, you can certainly use your SRM-MDM repository on the main MDM 7.1 system. However, the following cons apply:
1. Even though it contains several core components from Netweaver (NW) MDM, SRM-MDM Catalog is being developped by SAP as a separate product. The patch releases between SRM-MDM and NW MDM are also not in synch (at least that's the current situation). Therefore, if you have both applications on one MDM system, you will have an undesired dependency related to applying new patches - which may lead to some issues.
2. Performance of one application will be impacted by the load on the other one.
3. Down time of one application will impact the users of the other one.
4. Upgrades will be more difficult to handle.
On my recent project, the direction from SAP was to use two different systems - one for SRM-MDM, one for NW MDM.
Cheers,
Serguei

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