SAP Master Data Governance Features
Data consolidation
An integrated database of customer, supplier, and product information calls for a consumer-grade user experience and an intuitive, flexible process.
Modular, on-demand master data management
Provide a highly effective data processing option for master data specialists.
Single view for accurate analytics and insights
Visualize data during consolidation – from drilling down and showing changes to reviewing matches and creating best records.
Centrally governed master data
Gain the transparency to indicate and validate changes confidently before activation when loading large volumes of data.
Automated data governance enforcement
Identify duplicates inside loaded records and against existing records with a configurable matching capability.
Central data governance
By centralizing your heterogeneous systems into a single source, you can create, maintain, and distribute master data across your enterprise.
Anytime, anywhere data consistency
Create master data in line with business processes by standardizing definitions and business rules.
Collaborative workflows and notifications
Get the right people to participate at the right time with standardized and automated workflow routing and notification.
Enforcement of validated values
Integrate data governance into your processes to perform duplicate checks and field validations before creating a new record.
Complete audit trail of changes
Decrease risk and simplify regulatory compliance with a governed master data process with auditable data and data changes.
Mass processing
Master data stewards can perform bulk changes in business partner, customer, supplier, and product data with highly-effective mass change processes.
Execution of mass changes for attributes
Change large volumes of data into real-time insights to pinpoint and verify changes before activating them.
Data flow management across processes
Package and queue data and run it on a parallel system to enhance performance, even when processing large data sets.
Import and export of data-rich files with changes
Upload changed records from CSV or Microsoft Excel files to incorporate offline processing and other information sources.
Data quality management
Business rules that are defined, validated, and monitored help safeguard master data readiness and ensure that it’s fit for use.
Measurement and monitoring of master data quality
Detail and catalog data quality business rules in a central repository.
Visibility into data standards
View data quality process indicators, trends, and error distribution across domains or dimensions.
Tactical and strategic insights into data
Take advantage of intuitive navigation and detailed analysis of data quality issues.
Process analytics
Data governance is significantly enhanced when master data is continuously measured and monitored.
Evaluation of best-record calculations
Enable central governance, consolidation, and mass processing with a full view into process quality.
Improved process speed and accuracy
Access a summary dashboard and analytical listing of relevant process information to optimize data distribution.
Reduced total cost of owning data
Benefit from intuitive navigation and detailed analysis of process quality challenges.
Master data integration
The SAP Master Data Integration (MDI) service on the SAP Business Technology Platform enables a consistent view of master data across end-to-end business processes.
Master data synchronization
Gain more control by sharing and synchronizing master data to enrich your landscape.
Out-of-the-box integration
Deliver immediate value with out-of-the-box-integration across the application landscape with the SAP One Data Model.
No additional cost
Provided at no additional cost on every SAP Business Technology Platform global account.
Product details
Detailed product scope
Learn how SAP Master Data Governance can help your business manage master data across multiple data domains.
Recent highlights
See a summary of the most recent updates in SAP Master Data Governance to know what they do and how to take advantage of them to govern your data more effectively.
Product road map
Enhance your master data management (MDM) capabilities by exploring your current options in MDM solutions and map out your business’s future with planned innovations.
Solution extensions and additional products
Looking for more master data management products to meet your business needs?
SAP Datasphere
Deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical data and simply your data landscape with a business data fabric.
SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data
Enhance contact data quality by embedding address cleansing, validation, and geocoding into any business process or application interface.
SAP Information Steward
Maximize data integrity with a combination of data profiling, data lineage, and metadata management tools that provide continuous insight into your enterprise data model.
SAP Master Data Governance, retail and fashion management extension by Prometheus Group
Digitalize and streamline retail operations with advanced capabilities that unify, automate, and rationalize your master data.
SAP Master Data Governance, enterprise asset management extension by Prometheus Group
Optimize enterprise asset productivity with a comprehensive approach to unifying and simplifying the governance of asset data.
SAP Asset Information Workbench by Prometheus Group
Make twinning a reality for your organization to simplify asset master data governance by creating a digital replica of physical assets, processes, and systems.