User's Guide

5 SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
SGeSAP legacy packaging provides a cluster solution for server components of SAP Master Data Management
(MDM) 5.5, 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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