What is MDM Work Flow

Hi MDM frnds,
What is MDM work flow, its Just like ABAP Work Flow??
At what stage we need to define MDM work Flow??
If anybody having usefull documentation shere to me..
Regards,Raj

Hi,
What is MDM work flow?
Workflow is used to run the processes working on master data in a systematic and orderly way.
Generally, we need to have some validations and approvals in order to make sure that master data is
correct.These validations ,approvals and other processes are not done by the single person.Different
operations will be done by different users in master data management.In order to control the overall
processes done by different users in an systematic way, we need workflow.
At what stage we need to define MDM work Flow??
As i said above whenever we have validations, assignments and matching and merging and various
approvals which should be act on our master data before send the master data various application
Systems, then we go for workflow.
For example as soon as we import the data, workflow can be triggered by setting configuration options
in import manager and imported records can be addeed to workflow automatically by setting Trigger action
to record import.By doing this,we can cleanse and normalize the data using various operations in workflow.
and also we can execute the MDM workflows in portal using guided procedures.
Not only that using workflow we can extract the data from MDM to remote system using syndicate step(Available from SP5) of the workflow.
Finally what i can say is using workflow all the operations which need to be executed on master data can
be done in a proper way.
For better understanding, go through below documnents.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9180cbaf-0801-0010-f882-f2af6dc975d0
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0be83e4-a1e6-2a10-c1be-8395ae948844
Hope it helps'
Reward points,if found useful
Thanks
Narendra
Edited by: mullapudi on May 6, 2008 7:35 AM

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