User's Guide

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. Currently only Oracle is supported with the
combination HP-UX , SGeSAP and MDM.
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.
NOTE: Go to http://service.sap.com/installmdm to access the SAP Service Marketplace
web site, where you can then access the required SAP documentation needed for this installation.
You must be a SAP registered user to access these documents.
MDM 5.5 SP05 - Master Guide
MDM 5.5 SP05 - Console Reference Guide
MDM 5.5 SP05 - Release Notes
MDM 5.5 SP05 - Installation Guide
112 SAP Master Data Management (MDM)