Scope of Business Objects in MDM

[Former Member]

Hi MDM Experts

What is the scope of Business Objects in MDM,

How MDM can leverage its features and functionalities by using Business Objects.

Regards

Gaurav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi gaurav

Integrating SAP NetWeaver MDM and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (DS) with its ETL capabilities can enrich the MDM solution for any enterprise. Refer to the link below:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b097f3ba-5565-2b10-74af-b51838bb...

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/DQMS/en/dqsapmdm_usersguide_en.pdf

best regards

Ravi

[Former Member]

thanks for u r inputs

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

pls find the below links which may help you in finding some indights of BOBJ with MDM.

Refer https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/events?rid=/library/uuid/00a5ea3f-214d-2b10-fbb0-e704700aed5b

Additionally you can also refer,

/people/markus.ganser/blog/2009/04/20/sap-business-objects-and-sap-netweaver-mdm--bringing-together-the-best-of-two-worlds

/people/markus.ganser/blog/2008/09/17/learn-how-to-integrate-the-etl-capabilities-of-sap-businessobjects-data-services-ds-with-sap-netweaver-mdm

/people/michael.briles/blog/2008/08/26/central-mdm-for-business-partner-using-business-objects-data-services-for-cleansing-and-matching-with-michael-briles

Rgdrds,

Bis

[Former Member]

Hi

I know that "MillerCoors" was using SAP MDM & BO DQ

The comparison between SAP MDM & BO DQ capabilities are listed below. Putting it straight.

1) Both have data quality capabilities. Validations for SAP MDM & Transforms for BO DQ. But the capabilities of BO DQ are much stronger than SAP MDM

2) Both have de-duplication functionalities. While SAP MDM does not provide fuzzy matching capabilities, you more effectively find duplicates using BO DQ. But, merging of records, selecting individual fields for merged record is not possible in BO DQ. SAP MDM has an upper hand here.

3) Data enrichment is not possible in SAP MDM. BO DQ has built in dictionaries for Address check, zip codes etc.

Both tools have capabilities to connect to third party service like D&B. SAP MDM via the Enrichment Controller & DQ via web services.

4) Data Management workflow capabilities of integrating users, data stewards in the data quality process is better in SAP MDM.

Based on these points, if one is going for a BO DQ + SAP MDM approach, to get the best results we can design all the data quality validations, transformations, de-duplication, enrichment in BO DQ & the master data management activities like data governance, business process etc in SAP MDM.

Read the below weblog for more information

/people/ketan.phanse/blog/2008/11/27/taking-the-best-from-bo-dq-sap-mdm-worlds