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An up-to-date guide to the latest SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management functionality
Could SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management play a role in your overall enterprise data management strategy?
Find out why organizations managing large volumes of data across disparate systems are formulating enterprise data management (EDM) strategies. Watch this session to:
- Determine what’s required to create a solid EDM strategy and how SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) could support your strategy.
- Understand the key elements of an EDM strategy, including a six-pronged data governance program, core processes, data definition and quality tasks, required technologies, architecture, and a sound data governance organization.
- Understand the benefits of a cohesive EDM strategy, as well as the challenges and the risks of not having an EDM strategy in place.
- Walk through the steps required to implement an EDM strategy based on SAP NetWeaver MDM.
- Get real-world examples of how other SAP customers have deployed SAP NetWeaver MDM as the foundation of their EDM strategies and take away key lessons learned.
An up-to-date guide to the latest SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management functionality
This 3-hour session offers an up-to-date look at and guidance for leveraging the new capabilities of SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM). Watch this session to:
- Understand and view demos of key SAP NetWeaver MDM components, including Console, data manager, import manager, syndicator, workflows, and taxonomies.
- Find out how to use SAP NetWeaver MDM extended matching and merging to de-duplicate and unify data across various SAP NetWeaver MDM repositories.
- Understand how to integrate SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) data for unified, company-wide analytics using SAP NetWeaver MDM predefined syndication maps.
- Accelerate the process of de-duping data with aggregate functions such as multi-value lookups and qualified links.
- Determine whether new SAP NetWeaver MDM security modifications could help you control and restrict who has access to administrative settings and data modeling functions.
- Assess your options for distributing data across systems using XML enabled by SAP NetWeaver MDM and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI).
- Bonus! In your appendix files, look for a metadata map of SAP NetWeaver MDM repositories for material and vendor master data, a sample SAP NetWeaver MDM implementation plan built in Microsoft Project, and a sample data governance model.
Reduce data management challenges and increase business insights with SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management: Real-world lessons from the trenches
This session delves into the capabilities, benefits, and prerequisites of SAP Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM). Watch this session to:
- Explore the features of SAP NetWeaver MDM, such as extended matching and merging capabilities, extended portal integration, and on-demand syndication.
- Assess whether you could use SAP NetWeaver MDM to better align transactional and master data to generate more accurate and meaningful SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence reports and analytics.
- Determine how to take advantage of powerful data aggregation functionality, such as multi-value lookups and qualified links.
- Step through a demo of how data is extracted from multiple source systems, cleansed and normalized in SAP NetWeaver MDM, and distributed to a target system.
Case Study: How Airgas uses SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management Product Information Management to centralize and control product data
This session explores how Airgas uses SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) for product data management. Watch this session to
- Find out how Airgas uses SAP NetWeaver MDM features such as Data Manager, Import Manager and Server, Image Manager, and more to synchronize, automate, and distribute master data.
- Learn how Airgas takes product data from multiple systems and consolidates it, enriches it, and disseminates it using SAP NetWeaver MDM.
- Understand how the company uses SAP NetWeaver MDM as a single repository to support eBusiness Web sites, electronic catalogs, vendor managed inventory, purchasing, and even print catalogs.
- Gain insight into how Airgas uses SAP NetWeaver MDM within a service-oriented architecture to obtain competitive advantage from its product data.
- Follow a demo of how Airgas uses SAP NetWeaver MDM to distribute and display product master data in print and on the Web.
Case study: How AS America implemented SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management to enable supplier-retailer collaboration
Hear a firsthand account of how AS America developed a process to efficiently syndicate product data across its network of trading partners using SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI). Watch this session to:
- Find out how AS America built its data model, including its rationale for when to use out-of-the-box content and when to customize the model to meet specific business requirements.
- Explore the company’s approach to developing a flexible product repository model that supports multiple business initiatives.
- Hear how the company standardized product-master data workflow.
- Find out how AS America uses global data pools to improve efficiencies in supply chain and marketing communication.
- See how AS America used SAP NetWeaver PI transformations to overcome SAP NetWeaver MDM syndicator functionality gaps.
- Get examples of the best practices the company used to manage its project.