Product Description

This book provides system architects, administrators, and IT managers with a description of the structure and usage scenarios of SAP NetWeaver MDM.

It uses three comprehensive real-life examples to give you practical insights into the consolidation, harmonization, and central management of master data. In addition, you ll uncover the concepts and business-related requirements of master data management as well as best practices for integrating MDM in your Enterprise SOA.

An entire chapter is devoted to describing the technical details - to their full extent. Plus, more than 130 pages are dedicated to an MDM compendium, complete with detailed answers to all of your most pressing questions on individual components, data extraction from SAP systems, options for integration with SAP XI, SAP NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Portal (including user management), as well as on workflows and the Java API.


Highlights:

• Overview of MDM
• Master Data Management in Companies: Concepts and Requirements
• MDM as a Central Component of an Enterprise SOA: MDM in the Context of a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Sample Scenarios: Data Synchronization in Marketing, Identity Management, Mergers & Acquisitions
• MDM Technical Details: Components of MDM, Data Extraction, Integration, Workflows, Java API

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1181345 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 332 pages

About the Author
Loren Heilig is the founder and CEO of IBSolution GmbH, a service provider in the SAP NetWeaver area as well as an SAP MDM, BI and Portal Expertise Partner. Steffen Karch is a Senior Business Consultant at SAP. His project work focuses on strategic IT consulting with a special emphasis on matters of integration. All their co-authors have extensive experience working with SAP MDM.

Customer Reviews

Good Intro to the SAP Netweaver tool suite
Provides a good overview of the Netweaver tool suite along with short case studies of how the tools might be used in different businesses. If your company is evaluating MDM as a product, this is a good book. Provides understanding of the tool's usage and architecture - backed as needed by screen shots etc. However, don't expect it to be a detailed user's guide or programmer's manual. Overall readability is excellent. Until Amazon gets more info on this book listed on their site, a detailed table of contents is available on the SAP Press web page.