What is SAP Master Data Governance?
A unified, trusted view of your business enables you to work more efficiently and make better decisions. The SAP Master Data Governance application helps you pull together master data and manage it centrally using a master data management layer based on SAP Business Technology Platform.
SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA
Establish a cohesive and harmonised master data management strategy across your domains to simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce total cost of ownership.
SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition
Kick-start your corporate master data management initiative in the cloud with a minimal barrier for entry and an option to build additional master data governance scenarios at your pace.
SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA
Establish a cohesive and harmonised master data management strategy across your domains to simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce total cost of ownership.
SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition
Kick-start your corporate master data management initiative in the cloud with a minimal barrier for entry and an option to build additional master data governance scenarios at your pace.
Key Capabilities
Consolidation
Create a single source of truth by uniting SAP and third-party data sources and mass processing additional bulk updates on large volumes of data.
Central governance
Allow various teams to own unique master data attributes and enforce validated values for specific data points through collaborative workflow routing and notification.
Data quality and process analytics
Define, validate, and monitor established business rules to confirm master data readiness and analyse master data management performance.
Consolidation
Create a single source of truth by uniting SAP and third-party data sources and mass processing additional bulk updates on large volumes of data.
Central governance
Allow various teams to own unique master data attributes and enforce validated values for specific data points through collaborative workflow routing and notification.
Data quality and process analytics
Define, validate, and monitor established business rules to confirm master data readiness and analyse master data management performance.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP Master Data Governance
Enabling data-driven decision-making
Learn how Shanying eliminated duplicate master data to improve transparency and reduce the transaction cost between different business units.
Boosting productivity with centralised data
Find out how Adani Group increased productivity and enhanced its user experience with a single source of high-quality insights.
Improving data understanding to the business
Hear Cardinal Health’s testimonial on they have created a better situation to understand business data without involving IT skills.
Improving the quality of business-critical data
Learn more about Döhler's transformation story, including a 90% reduction in master data creation time.
Improving data quality, consistency, and insight
Learn how Evoqua enforced compliance rules in a way that ensured a clear picture of their enterprise data across business areas and systems.
Reviewers of SAP Master Data Governance on TrustRadius appreciate the product’s impact on their data integrity and robust auditing capabilities.
Megan Headley
Vice President of Research at TrustRadius
SAP Master Data Governance is a system we designated as a single source of truth to manage our data.
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Computer & Network Security Company
Platform to create a master data record which is consistent through the enterprise using the workflow which we can modify as per business needs.
Consultant
Retail Company
SAP Master Data Governance is a powerful solution that enables the implementation of advanced master data automation.
Jeffrey Dewolf
Director of Global Master Data, Tetra Pak
Prebuilt data models, business rules, and other factors have surely increased the ability to provide business value faster.
Dishank Vishnol
Senior Consultant, Areteans
Our procurement, finance, and sales data has gone through a huge facelift with SAP Master Data Governance.
IT Consultant
Information Technology Services Company
Provides secure way of controlling and managing data flow in the organisation and managing information flow efficiently
Industry Analyst
Financial Services Company
SAP Master Data Governance is a leader in Master Data Management on G2
SAP Data and Analytics Solutions Win Multiple TrustRadius Winter 2023 “Best Of” Awards
What are analysts saying?
Exploring the real ROI of master data management
See how organisations can use MDM to collect, process, govern, share, and analyse data – all in a cost-efficient, effective, and reliable manner.
SAP is a Leader in master data management, according to Forrester
Find out why SAP was positioned as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Master Data Management, Q4 2021” report.
Taking a federated approach to master data management
Explore why global organisations may not have the visibility to know at what level master data is managed and how a federated approach can help solve it.
Frequently Asked Questions for SAP Master Data Governance
Master data management is the discipline of creating one trusted master reference (a single version of the truth) for all important business data, such as product data, customer data, asset data, finance data, and more. MDM helps ensure businesses don’t use multiple, potentially inconsistent versions of data in different parts of business, including processes, operations, and analytics and reporting. The three key pillars to effective MDM include: data consolidation, data governance, and data quality management.
The purpose of master data integration is to distribute master data to enable a harmonised view of master data across all applications. Master data integration allows for end-to-end process integration across the enterprise. Master data integration does not change the quality of master data, but always distributes master data in its current state. Instead, integration provides a distribution layer that gives your line-of-business applications a consistent view of data. Ultimately, a master data integration should increase the effectiveness and reduce the cost and effort of data sharing.
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After your move to S/4HANA, many business processes will be familiar to you from your existing ERP system; but you will also be implementing new, more automated processes to match the demands of the digital marketplace. You may find yourself implementing processes for automatic replacement of parts inventory, IoT processes, really – the skies the limit. These processes will rely more heavily on clean and correct master data, and if your master data is not up to the task, you will lose much of the value of SAP S/4HANA. To avoid this, we recommended that you curate your master data early and well before the actual implementation begins. The SAP Master Data Governance application offers in-built integration to SAP’s data model and underlying technologies (for example, SAP Business Workflow), and helps you consolidate and actively govern master data for SAP and non-SAP applications.