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Central Master Data Management

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Hi All,

Can anyone tell me about central master data management ?

In what way it is difference from consolidation and harmonization?

I have gone through several documents but i did n't get any idea on that topic.

If anyone have knowledge on CMDM, Please explain in their own words.

Thanks

Narendra

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Hi,

CMDM indicates all master data is maintained in the

central MDM system. No maintenance of global master data fields occurs in the connected client systems.No transactional data

In particular sub-tables containing customizing data (like company codes, etc.) will always need to be consolidated before the central creation scenario gets operational.

An MDM Central Master Data management is not an isolated scenario. Usually depending on the business case and on the Implementation phase the other scenarios will be necessary.

In practice more scenarios can be built from a combination of the three main scenarios(MDC,MDH and CMDM). For example some customers implement a mixture between MDC and CMDM. In that case in spite that data is being created centrally in MDM, local Master Data may still be created at the client systems, and than consolidated in MDM.

Hope it will Help you,

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Mandeep Saini

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Hi Mullapudi

CMDM is another powerful IT scenario of MDM apart from Consolidation and harmonization of Master data .

Consolidation means pulling all master data from several source systems and cleaning/enriching it in MDM. Once the data is clean we send it back to target systems via harmonization/syndication in MDM.

Central Master data Mgmt comes into picture when we have say implemented both consolidation as well as harmonization and we want all new master data to be created in MDM first.After creation trigger a workflow which checks for all validationsdefined in MDM and also matches new record with existing records in MDM and finally is Approved by Data Manager.Only when the records are approved after all the steps of workflow it can be syndicated to different target systems for creation. This way we ensure that no duplicate data is created in MDM and also data passes all validation and governance rules.

Hope this helps

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Ravi kumar

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Hi All,

Thanks for your replies.

Cheers

Narendra

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Consolidation and Harmonization procedures are very different from CMDM (central master data management), however often times CMDM is not very useful without considering the other two as well.

Consolidation essentially means creating identity around your master data across your landscape. More specifically you want to identify duplicate records and merge them into one record. Harmonization is the process of pushing the new cleansed data back out to your partner systems.

Central master data management is the process of creating and managing enterprise level attributes in one place. One common mistake that people make is that central master data management means having one place to create your records and containing ALL data. This is not correct, MDM focuses on enterprise level attributes. In other words, which attributes are KPI's, shared across multiple processes in scope, shared across multiple systems, important for reporting, need ultimate quality, etc. Once you have determined your data model then you begin developing the workflow (if needed) around the creation of master data. This way you can easily keep your data clean and free of duplicates moving forward following a consolidation and harmonization process.

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Hi,

Master Data Consolidation

Importing the Data from different systems using MDM Import Manager and consolidate it i.e. identifying duplicates etc.

Involves MDM Import Manager and MDM Data Manager.

Master Data Harmonization

Harmonization involves importing data from different systems, consolidate it and then distribute consolidates Master data to different systems.

Uses MDM Import Manager, MDM Data Manager and MDM Syndicator

Central Master Data Management

Its a creation of Master Data in MDM itself i.e. using Data Manager and then syndicate the master records to the desired systems.

MDM Data Manager and MDM Syndicator is involved in this process.

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Jitesh Talreja

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Hi Mullapudi,

CMDM means you create records within MDM and then you distribute (Syndicate) this centrally created data to your Remote Systems.

Since the data is created within MDM it is assumed that it is cleansed data and can be supplied to the remote systems.

In case of other scenarios you consolidate data from different systems. This data is then cleansed within MDM and then send this cleansed data back to the remote systems.

Thanks and Regards,

Sagar Sonje.

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