SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
Easily manage master data generated by your SAP instances, regardless of version or deployment.
An Adaptive MDM Solution for SAP Customers
With Profisee Master Data Management for SAP, you can:
Integrate data from any source, whether it be SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SRM or external sources like JD Edwards or third-party ERPs or CRMs.
Democratize data stewardship and data management across the organization — not just the business units working directly in SAP.
Maximize the value of your SAP investment by creating accurate, up-to-date, consistent and timely master data records.
Simplify master data management with a user-friendly, multidomain MDM tool built for the cloud.
Benefits of Profisee Master Data Management for SAP
Profisee MDM and SAP work better together. Implement Profisee alongside your SAP deployment to:
Boost your organization’s flexibility with a true MDM that can be deployed as SaaS, PaaS, hybrid or on-prem.
Ditch data silos. With Profisee, integrate data from any source and make it available to the systems that need access, including SAP source systems.
How Profisee Works with SAP Master Data Governance
SAP Master Data Governance can be a good solution for organizations with the resources to configure it, but it’s not an ideal choice when working with systems outside of the SAP ecosystem. Profisee works with SAP Master Data Governance to help you get the most out of your SAP investment and access a more holistic view of your data.
Profisee integrates data from all your source systems into a single repository, eliminating data silos. No matter how your business grows, Profisee can handle data from any system of record, including:
- SAP
- Oracle NetSuite
- JD Edwards
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Odoo ERP
- Acumatica Cloud ERP
- Sage Business Cloud
With features for data governance, matching and survivorship, relationship management, workflow automation and data stewardship, Profisee lets you:
- Identify and merge matching records
- Remove duplicate records
- Enforce data governance policies
- Standardize your data across the enterprise
- Measure and improve data quality
With accurate, timely, unique and high-quality data, Profisee lets you make your data available to all systems that need to access it, including:
- SAP
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
- Salesforce
- Marketo
- NetSuite
- Workday
- ServiceNow
Real Success from Real Customers
Consolidating ERP Data
in Days, Not Years
Learn how Trelleborg used Profisee to integrate data from 25 source systems and data warehouses to deliver actionable, high-quality data in under 100 days post-implementation to support LOB financial reporting and demand forecasting.
Streamlining Agency Onboarding
Learn how ICW Group used Profisee to create a centralized hub for agency information and improve onboarding by eliminating duplicate data and attaining a complete view of the agency.
Creating a Single Source of Truth Across Customer, Vendor and Materials
Learn how ITT uses Profisee MDM to create a consolidated 360-degree view of customer, vendor and materials data across at least three different systems, including Microsoft SQL Server, SAP and Salesforce.
Ready to Explore Your Data’s Full Potential?
Discover how pairing SAP with Profisee Master Data Management can help your organization work across systems and maximize the value of your SAP deployments.
SAP Master Data Management FAQs
MDM, or master data management, plays an important role in any SAP deployment. SAP generates master data throughout the course of doing business, which usually includes categories or domains such as:
- Customer
- Product
- Location
- Supplier
- Asset
- Material
Because master data is the core, non-transactional data an organization uses, keeping it up-to-date, consistent, error-free and unique is critical to ensuring the business has trustworthy, accurate data on which to base important decisions and processes. This is where master data management comes into play.
Master data management is a technology-enabled practice that data professionals use to maintain high-quality, trustworthy master data for a variety of applications. MDM is an important concept in the context of SAP because SAP is often a major source system — or system of record — for at least several master data domains, like product, customer and supplier.
SAP offers its own MDM product called SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), but you can use other MDM solutions with SAP, sometimes even in combination with Master Data Governance.
Profisee and SAP MDG are both master data management solutions that feature capabilities for data integration, matching and survivorship, data governance and data quality management. However, they also differ in some important ways:
- SAP MDG is part of the broader SAP ecosystem and, as such, tends to work better with other SAP modules than with third-party software systems. Profisee is a standalone, best-of-breed MDM solution built to work with a variety of different software systems, including SAP.
- Being an SAP product, Master Data Governance does come with a Most data professionals must undergo training before they can use MDG effectively, as the user interface is not intuitive and can require multiple clicks to perform tasks. By contrast, Profisee features an intuitive modern user interface and is easier to use. For help getting started, customers can take advantage of Profisee Academy to get acquainted with the platform.
- Some users report that SAP MDG is not very adaptable to evolving data governance requirements. This can lead to creating workarounds in other systems, making MDG a rigid system at times. Profisee, on the other hand, is an adaptive MDM solution that lets users customize models to match their business requirements, even with complex governance rules.
Yes, as of the SAP S/4HANA 2023 release, SAP Master Data Governance is available on SAP S/4HANA and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud (public or private).
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is typically a long, difficult process that requires a considerable amount of planning and preparation to execute. While Profisee is not an appropriate tool to use for every aspect of S/4HANA migration, it can be used as a bridge between legacy deployments and S/4HANA to support more of a gradual migration rather than a high-risk, all-at-once approach.
Profisee lets you correct errors and inaccuracies in your data, enrich your data with third-party sources, standardize it according to your data governance policies and remove duplicate records. Taking this approach can help you overcome challenges you faced with your legacy SAP deployment and expedite the process of starting fresh in S/4HANA.
But if you want access to integrated, clean, standardized data from your SAP systems without undertaking a massive ERP consolidation project, Profisee can also help you consolidate master data within your systems. Integrate data from SAP S/4HANA, SAP SRM, SAP ERP or any other system and use Profisee’s powerful master data management platform to create golden records and make them available to downstream systems for use cases like accurate analytics, increased cross- and up-sell opportunities, strategic procurement and customer/product 360.
