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

Table 5-1 MDM User Interface and Command Line Components
DescriptionCategory
MDM Console, MDM Data Manager Client, MDM Import Manager....
Allows you to use, administer and monitor the MDM components. For
example, the MDM console allows you to create and maintain the
structure of MDM repositories as wellmas to control access to them.
NOTE: The MDM GUI interface is not relevant for the implementation
of the SGeSAP scripts.
MDM GUI (Graphical user Interface)
clients
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 5-2 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 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
MDS (MDM Server)
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.
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