Managing Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.10, December 2012

Table 29 MDM User Interface and Command Line Components (continued)
DescriptionCategory
NOTE: The MDM GUI interface is not relevant for the implementation of
the SGeSAP scripts.
MDM CLIX...
Allows you to manage the MDM software and MDM repositories using a
command line interface. The MDM CLIX interface is used by the SGeSAP
scripts to manage the repositories.
MDM CLI (Command Line Interface) clients
MDM Server Components
The MDM Server Components provide consistent master data within a heterogeneous system
landscape and allows organizations to consolidate and centrally manage their master data. The
MDM Server components import and export this information to and from various clients across a
network.
Table 5-2 details the MDM Server components in greater detail:
Table 30 MDM Server Components
DescriptionComponent
Manages one or more MDM repositories containing master data. It allows users to store,
manage and update master data consisting of text, images, and other rich content, and
MDS (MDM Server)
to create taxonomies, families, and relationships. Some examples of typical MDM
repositories types are:
• Material data
• Vendor
• Customer
• Employee
• Retail Articles
• Product/Material
• Business Partner/Vendor/Customer
Allows you to import data (e.g. Excel, delimited text, SQL, XML, and any ODBC-compliant
source) automatically in conjunction with predefined inbound ports and import maps
(e.g. restructure, cleanse, and normalize master data as part of the import process).
MDIS (MDM Import Server)
Allows you to export data automatically in conjunction with predefined outbound ports
and syndicator maps to various remote systems (e.g. ERP master data clients, Web
catalogs and files with flat or relational formats).
MDSS (MDM Syndication
Server)
Provides Database services for the MDM configuration.
NOTE: The term MDB was chosen arbitrarily to be consistent with the other MDM
names in an SGeSAP context. All these components use a leading "M".
MDB (MDM Database
Server)
SAP Netweaver XI components
Inbound/Outbound XI components—provide the Inbound and Outbound plug-ins to allow the
connection of the MDM system to remote systems.
Installation and Configuration Considerations for MDM 5.5 in a
Serviceguard legacy environment
The following sections contain a step-by-step guide on the components required to install MDM in
a SGeSAP (Serviceguard extension for SAP) environment.
138 SAP Master Data Management (MDM)