Using SAP ECC as a MDM Hub

I would like to know the pros and cons of using SAP ECC as a MDM hub instead of using standard MDM tool like SAP MDM. Many folks in my company thinks that it is possible by adding some governance functionality & quality tools to standard SAP ECC.
Please let me know if this is a good idea , if not what are the reasons.
Thanks

Hi,
To answer in general terms, It is like going to a physician for surgery instead of going to a surgeon.
There is no restriction of exploring ECC for master data & governance. But SAP's EIM solution products like SAP NW MDM are result of growing market requirements for speciality tools. Read more about customer success stories of using SAP NW MDM solutions at - http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/mdm/index.epx
Few highlights -
SAP MDM is designed to be a central hub of master data. MDM will maintain global attributes that can be sent to different target systems including your ECC. Then each of your target systems can maintain their local attributes in additon to the global attributes sent by MDM. MDM will maintain the global unique ID's thus providing a single version of truth for your master data across the organization. SAP NW MDM can be integrated with SAP BOBJ DS and a continuous cleansing/validating/removing duplicates can be achieved. Master data Address cleansing/D&B enrichment can be achieved with real time services present in BOBJ DS & MDM. Enterprise Portal/BPM has standard MDM API's providing data governance capability at its best.
SAP ECC on other hand is a transactional system/operational system. The load on ECC of maintaining global master data will unncessarily affect the performance. Maintaining master data, removing duplicates, running data vaidations/assignments for cleansing data, then adding central data maintenance with data governance is like adding load on your transactional system. The outmost priority of ECC system is its performance and availability.
Similar SDN thread - MDM Vs ECC
Thanks,
Shambhu.

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