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Pros

Simpler Interface: Users have appreciated the simpler interface that makes custom workflows easier to create and manage within business procedures, as it streamlines processes and increases productivity for multiple reviewers. Users mentioned that the intuitive design allowed them to set up complex workflows in a fraction of the time compared to previous systems.

Efficient Data Replication: The platform's intuitive workflow and seamless data replication capabilities have been praised by users for enhancing the overall user experience, ensuring efficient task completion, and improving operational efficiency based on feedback from several customers. Reviewers highlighted how the system's swift data replication feature saved them significant time during critical project timelines.

Data Governance Functionalities: Customers value the platform's data governance functionalities that enable effective data management across departments, fostering collaboration and maintaining high data quality standards according to multiple reviewers. Users shared how the robust data governance tools helped their team identify and rectify inconsistencies in master data quickly, leading to smoother operations and increased accuracy in reporting.

SAP Master Data Governance Reviews

7 Reviews
Engineering

The best tool for data management.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my experience, SAP Master Data Governance is very helpful in managing master data since it gives more storage space for data, which helps to minimize duplicate data and data discrepancies. benefits of managing master data centrally. I think SAP Master Data Governance is highly useful for managing reference data, data duplication and transfer to new resources, general data management challenges, and team organization. It used to be tough to keep things consistent across many departments in our business, but with this platform, communication is straightforward, and we have already standardized our procedures and language. For us, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) is a useful data analytics production solution; data reporting is exceptionally accurate; project data management is superb; and data transmission is lightning quick.

Pros

  • I can easily access and use a wide range of data points for executive decision making.
  • For me, the biggest feature is its data governance features, which enable us manage our data across departments and even with our clients.
  • For us, it offers excellent functionality and a centralized place for managing data across the company; most of all, it eliminates duplicate and incorrect data from the database.

Cons

  • The learning curve is steep, and I think the build procedures might be challenging at first because we are transitioning from a non-systematic data management perspective.
  • My team and I believe that its integration into learning new capabilities is complicated and limiting in terms of customizing reports.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my experience, it is highly suited for the ability to assign and view existing responsibilities that are particular to distinct domains such as HR, Finance, and Payroll. The data transfer went easily, and we discovered that SAP Master Data Governance works well with the connection, and I believe it will function well with other applications as well, so the benefit is that it is all-encompassing in collecting whatever the organization does on a daily basis.
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Eleanora Matthews
Engineering Manager in Engineering at Calhoun Community College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
4 years of experience

Leading solution for multi-domain MDM and data management with a high level of flexibility.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Because it is simple to connect and allows many teams to handle data from their application, my firm utilizes SAP (MDG) to store reference data from across the enterprise. SAP Master Data Governance tackles the problem of handling enormous amounts of data, enabling analysts to refine data and increase data quality, and gives a centralized place for master data access to the relevant individuals. SAP Master Data Governance delivers exceptional services and features that help businesses become more self-sufficient; it is an effective data asset management solution that serves as a one-stop shop for our company's data governance and stewardship needs. By making hierarchy management and workflows more flexible, it also helped us standardize our data and adjust our processes to better serve our consumers.

Pros

  • I like being able to create our own tables that aren't specified by the application; arranging data utilizing data spaces is a dream come true.
  • Using semantic data space instances with workflows improves performance significantly; firms with several domains may use the same application with numerous data spaces for master data management.
  • SAP (MDG) remains unique in the flexibility to model and manage master data the way it is used in the company, with all capabilities easily available through an intuitive user interface, and is not bound by the vendor's mandated data models.

Cons

  • We've had to design our own unique or alternative solutions to satisfy our business objectives because plugins don't always perform well with the main product.
  • It can be sluggish at times and lacks functionality offered by rival MDM packages, as well as limited resources and documentation for certain areas such as hierarchy.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best suited for big installations since it may be used as a hub, and it is also appropriate for SAP-provided data domains such as Finance. It is particularly suited for SAP-specific master data items, but not for non-SAP-specific master data components.
KV
Kenneth V. Coffman
Engineering Manager in Engineering at Komatsu Construction (Machinery, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
4 years of experience
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SAP Master Data Governance is an Excellent Cloud Master Data Management Solution for many Businesses.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Master Data Governance is very powerful Cloud big data management and its data protection functions are very effective. The Cloud data management solutions offered by SAP Master Data Governance are productive and very stable platform for easy big project data migration via Cloud service and its analytics created are very accurate.

Pros

  • Functional Cloud tools.
  • The data management capability.
  • Effective data security.

Cons

  • Just to set its Cloud functions.
  • The protection of multiple data requires an expert.
  • Migrating big data through Cloud service to new users is very tricky.

Likelihood to Recommend

The ability to move various project data across other Cloud platform and its data governance functions are excellent. SAP Master Data Governance has various features which simplifies multiple Cloud operations and to provide effective data analytics in real time and its time management functionalities are excellent. The reports are easy to create and share across project Engineers.
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Madhurani Sahani
Project Controller in Engineering at Veidekke Norge (Construction, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
2 years of experience
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Compatible with multiple databases and applications

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Master Data Governance tool is being used in our organization as the master data manager and governor for all the databases and cloud infrastructures. There are several external and internal databases which are integrated and are managed through the SAP Master Governance as an accumulator. This tool has brought the overall stability and syncing of the data processes all across the organization and has increased the visualization capability of data transactions and management. There are several problems solved by this tool in our organization majorly related to data consolidation, data management and process automation and analytics. We are using this tool to handle data integrations from different departments of the organization.

Pros

  • Easy setup and processes for data integrations and consolidation.
  • Mass data management with ease.
  • Variable data and processes analytics in multiple report types.

Cons

  • Integration of external data bases is little hard in initial setups.

Likelihood to Recommend

This tool has various useful features for consolidation of databases from multiple domains and the overall data management get easier for the organizations. It is recommended or well suited for the large enterprises and organizations, which are facing problems in handling multiple data bases and relative management as it will surely help them out to manage and maintain multiple data points at once.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
2 years of experience

Data governance is easy for multitude domains

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Master Cloud Data Governance gives us the accessibility and management capabilities to several databases of the organization. It is the best solution available in the market to connect and control data movements from SAP and other compatible platforms. We have integrated our several DBs with SAP Master Cloud Data Governance and it is easily can be connected with Non SAP databases too without any compatibility issues. It has been very helpful for our organization in the management of organizational and personal data, the distribution process of the data is very effective as we can assign the users for relative access as per their job roles. It also has solved the problem of cross-departmental data sharing for business management. SAP Master Data Governance tool is available to multiple management and business-related sections of the organization.

Pros

  • Secure and easy data management system for multitude databases.
  • Data governance for multiple data domains.
  • Flexibility of integration with different platforms and databases.

Cons

  • The tool costs high for enterprise setups.

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Master Data Governance is very capable of handling a multitude of data movements and can be integrated into multiple platforms at once to bring stability and single window access to multiple databases. There are multiple benefits it can provide to any enterprise or business and help in overall efficiency boost across the organizational data management system. It is well suited for any enterprise or business.
VU
Verified User
Supervisor in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
2 years of experience

SAP Master Data Governance is a great enterprise data management tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[SAP Master Data Governance is used for] customer, vendor, and material data management. [It is used] across the whole organization.

Pros

  • Enterprise data management

Cons

  • Transaction screens could be made better

Likelihood to Recommend

[SAP Master Data Governance is] best suited for enterprise data management.
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Vishal Sahoo
Consultant in Engineering at Deloitte (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
3 years of experience
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It's All About Data with SAP Master Data Governance

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by one department, but the organization is planning to use it across all departments. It's an enterprise-wide master data management application that is used to govern master data for business partners, products, etc. Constantly monitors the quality of master data and improves it.

Pros

  • One place for the whole company to look for master data info
  • Keeps track of missing attributes and provides reporting on data quality
  • Process analytics
  • Consolidates data to use best-matched records

Cons

  • If it's not managed properly, the same data could be placed in different places.
  • Hard to integrate with non-SAP systems
  • Hard to customize

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Master Data Governance is best suited to manage any master data across any enterprise. The availability to work with product characteristics allows you to define what is needed for each kind of product. Also, it can be used to provide data to third-party systems. In some cases, it is difficult to fit the specific and vertical requirements of certain industries.
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Dishank Vishnoi
Senior Consultant in Engineering at Areteans (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Master Data Governance
1 year of experience
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