Chapter 1, MDM Scenarios and Fundamentals, covers the fundamentals of Master Data Management and discusses the various IT and Business scenarios that exist for an MDM implementation within an organization. You will also find discussion about repository structure, the various types of tables and some key capabilities supported by an MDM repository.

Chapter 2, Getting to Know the MDM Console, discusses about saving the MDM server list to a console settings file and loading this file in three different ways. Later on, you will see how to analyze the MDM Console main window and understand its GUI comprising of panes and tabs. Finally, you will see brief discussion about various types of configuration settings available in MDM.

Chapter 3, Accessing the MDM System, you learn to mount and unmount the MDM Server in a step by step manner. Then you move on to starting and stopping the MDM server. You will understand the various properties of the MDM repository. Finally, you will learn the repository access operations which cover: mounting and unmounting, connecting and disconnecting, and loading and unloading an MDM repository.

Chapter 4, MDM Repository Maintenance, you learn how to how to work with MDM repositories, fields and tables. There is also a separate section which explains about the addition and deletion of a new table/field type Tuple introduced with MDM 7.

Chapter 5, MDM Repository Administration, teaches various commands operated on an MDM repository like Appropriate repository, Update repository, and Verify repository. In addition, this chapter also talks about methods to back-up a repository like duplicating a repository, Master/Slave concept, and repository Archive/Unarchive. This chapter also discusses techniques that can be used to replicate a schema of a repository (without the data) like Exporting/Importing Schema and the Change Transport System (CTS+).

Chapter 6, Server Administration, discusses the options available in configuring the settings of the MDM server, repositories, and the backend DBMS.

Chapter 7, Import Server Administration, familiarizes the concepts and techniques used by the MDIS for efficiently importing large source data with exception handling capabilities. You will also learn common troubleshooting tips and tricks for resolving problems while importing data using the MDM Import Server.

Chapter 8, Syndication Server Administration, covers the administration of the MDM Syndication Server. This chapter starts with the features of the MDM Syndication Server or the MDSS. Then we highlight the differences between the Syndicator and the MDSS. Next, we describe the procedure for utilizing the MDSS and monitoring its activities. Configuring the MDSS using the various standard and optional parameters is described next. The last section covers simple tips and tricks for troubleshooting the MDSS.

Chapter 9, MDM System Administration, gives an overview of the security features available in MDM 7.1. Some administrative features and functions of some system tables are also explained in this chapter.

Chapter 10, Security, discusses about the security features of SAP MDM 7.1. We will talk about the various aspects of security for accessing the MDM system keeping in mind the perspective of the end users, network, auditing, and the repository's content.

Chapter 11, MDM Integration Scenarios, discusses about the MDM integration scenarios with these SAP offerings: BI, PI/XI, and the Enterprise Portal.

Appendix, Getting Started with MDM, discusses the need for MDM and provides an overall understanding of its key capabilities.

You need to have the following servers installed in your system landscape.

Servers:

In order to access these servers you need to install the following GUI clients on your local machine.

GUI Clients:

NOTE: The GUI client SAP Data Manager requires the following software installed as a pre-requisite:

This book will appeal to administrators, who are responsible for implementing and managing SAP NetWeaver MDM in their systems. Basic knowledge of MDM is desired, but not for SAP Netweaver MDM. If you are already familiar with NetWeaver it will be easy for you to follow the book.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "To use this property, add the function Required_Fields to a validation expression."

A block of code is set as follows:

<repositoryAdmin><role action="modify" id="1">
<functionRight>
<function>16777217</function>
<access>0</access>
</functionRight>
</role></repositoryAdmin>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<repositoryAdmin><role action="modify" id="1">
<functionRight>
<function>16777217</function>
<access>0</access>
</functionRight>
</role></repositoryAdmin>

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Expand the Tuples node in the Console Hierarchy tree and select the desired tuple."

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