Web Services in MDM scope

Question

Hi Experts
Can you please let me know the use of WEB services and the scope of it in MDM.
Regards
Vickey

Answer 1

Hi Vickey,
Web services represent a self-contained subset of application functionality allowing different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding.  Because all communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language.
As far as MDM is concern Web Service can retrieve multiple remote keys for multiple records from different tables for different remote systems. It is used to retrieve the results of MDMu2019s consolidation process. The result can be filtered by a remote system. The requested records can be identified by their:
●      Internal MDM key
●      External MDM key (value of the first display field)
●      Remote key
and much more
The MDM Web services can be used to:
●      Manage Master Data Objects
○       Existence check of a central master object before local creation
○       Retrieve details and create a local replicate
○       Create or update master data objects on MDM
●      Manage Unique Identifiers of Master Data Objects
○       Remote system registers local object as replicate of global object
○       Key mapping during message exchange on SAP NetWeaver XI
Hope it helps.
Rgds
Deepak