Managing Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.05.10, September 2010

5 SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
SGeSAP legacy packaging provides a cluster solution for server components of SAP Master Data
Management (MDM), i.e. the MDB, MDS, MDIS, and MDSS servers. They can be handled as a
single package or split up into four individual packages.
Master Data Management - Overview
Figure 5.1 provides a general flow of how SGeSAP works with MDM.
• The Upper Layer—contains the User Interface components.
• The Middle Layer—contains the MDM Server components. The MDM components to be clustered
with SGeSAP are from the middle layer. These are MDS, MDIS, MDSS and MDB.
• The Lower Layer—contains the Inbound and Outbound connections into an SAP Netweaver
XI environment.
Figure 5-1 MDM Graphical Overview
Master Data Management User Interface Components
Table 5-1 details the two MDM user interface categories, as it relates to SGeSAP:
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