SAP NetWeaver MDM v5.5 sp6 (Nov 2007)
Field Report
Strengths
- Analytical MDM reporting for customer/party
- Operational MDM for supplier & product
- Quantity of MDM references ... CDI-related = Adidas, Intel, Nortel, Whirlpool, …
- Supply chain expertise
- Multi-entity MDM focus & consistent product strategy ... including full product information management (PIM) capability & support for material, vendor, etc.
- Future integration with BOBJ data quality & integration (ETL)
- SAP underpinnings for systems/change management
- Data governance tools, structure & methodology ... workflow, modeling,& validation rules, etc .
Weaknesses
- Operational MDM for ‘customer/party’ lacking due to party model limitations
- Does not support “full data” model until 7.1
- High tech B2B exception with tentative release date 4Q2008
- “Customer” data type still maturing
- No party-based data model ... “business partner” ≠ customer
- Only simple 2 layer hierarchies
- MDM 5.5 data model does not fully support party concept; "business partner" = customer & is the model used in SAP CRM; however SAP NW MDM does not model "full" business partner today, hence this limitation
