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SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition: Getting Hands-on Experience on a Guided Tour
Info Update June 27, 2023: Please note that the public trial offering of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition ended on November 11, 2022. Therefore, the information given in this blog post is outdated. As an alternative, you can use use the free tier model to get a hands-on experience. For this, also see the Mission in SAP Discovery Center with up-to-date information about exercises. |
This year’s SAP TechEd participants had the opportunity to try out SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition in a hands-on session, which was very well received. The session was scheduled twice and due to the strong interest both slots were heavily overbooked. To make up for this, we are making the contents of this session available to you in the form of a guided tour through the basic features of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition.
Credit goes to Andreas Seifried and team who made this all possible.
Feel free to take the tour to get a hands-on understanding of capabilities like consolidation, central governance and data quality management for business partner master data, and to see how easy it is to set up and use this Software-as-a-Service solution on the SAP Business Technology Platform.
Business Context
SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition is an optional deployment: As an SaaS solution, it can be deployed as a stand-alone solution to kick-start an enterprise MDG initiative at low entry barriers (which includes the option to adapt the solution to federated governance use cases according to the business units’ demand), or you can leverage earlier investments in SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA and transfer them into a federated deployment to broaden the scope and ease the implementation. This means that you have the option to expand from centralized master data governance to a modular, de-centralized set-up for federated master data governance.
For more information about SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition and the concept of federated governance, see my recent blog post Paving the Way Towards Federated Master Data Governance, or watch the replay of the related SAP TechEd lecture.
Prerequisites
For the guided tour, you need a trial account for SAP Business Technology Platform. But don’t worry if you don’t have it yet – it is part of the first exercise to create such an account (see the description below).
Scope
The trial version is not meant to have the full scope of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition. As pointed out before, it concentrates on processes in consolidation, central governance and data quality management. Capabilities like for example field extensibility or data replication are not included in the trial scope. See also the scope comparison between trial version and full version.
Exercises
Exercise 1 – Getting a BTP Trial Account and Subscribing to MDG Cloud
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Open the Getting Started Guide for the Trial Version of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition and carry out all activities, such as registering for the trial as described in the document.
For a PDF version of this guide, use the download link provided on that page.
You do not need to read the complete document. Once you can launch the apps displayed on your user’s Fiori Launchpad like displayed on the left, you are ready to start with the next exercise
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Your trial subscription to MDG, cloud edition remains valid for 30 days. After that, you can delete the subscription and create a new subscription to start a new trial period. Note that by deleting a subscription you will lose access to all data created.
Exercise 2 – Central Governance
In this exercise, you will learn the basics of working with the central governance capabilities of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition. In step 1, you start with creating a business partner. Then you carry out a duplicate check to see if there is potentially redundant data in the system. You create a business partner with various data sets, such as address, role, bank data, and identification. Then you submit your request for approval. For the approval step, you switch roles. Once your request is approved, you will receive an email notification. You can then change the business partner.
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The exercise is split in 3 steps based on the detailed step-by-step description:
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Exercise 3 – Consolidation
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The exercise is split in 2 steps based on the detailed step-by-step description:
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Exercise 4 – Mass Change
In this exercise, you will learn the basics of working with the mass change capabilities of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition. You start with the creation of a mass request, which can be used to perform all required changes for selected business partners. You submit the request, and, as an approver, will get a workflow task to approve the changes. After the approval, the requestor receives an email notification with a link to the result of this mass request.
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The exercise is split in 2 steps based on the detailed step-by-step description:
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Exercise 5 – Data Quality Management
In this exercise you explore some of the features of master data quality management in SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition. You will see how data quality rules for validation of master data are managed and how you can control their usage in master data processes. You analyze the results of a data quality evaluation and see how you can remediate detected errors.
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The exercise is split in 3 steps based on the detailed step-by-step description:
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In a Nutshell…
For a guided hands-on experience of SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition…
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For questions or for reporting an issue, please use our discussion forum in the SAP Community, and feel free to give us your feedback by commenting on this blog post.
To stay up to date with what’s going on in master data management and governance, simply follow the SAP Community Topic Page for SAP Master Data Governance.
Make sure to get on the tour. You can warm up right away with the Angry Data game:
Best,
Markus
Hi Andreas
I would like to thank you and the SAP team for all your efforts in setting up and enabling access to the SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition (Trial).
It was also interesting to hear about the capabilities of this solution as well as your step-by-step direction during the hands-on Teched session. It was really very helpful.
Thanks once again.
Regards
Neelesh
This is fantastic and much needed
For more details, make sure to watch the recorded SAP Community Call about this guided tour.
You might find this useful to explore the free tier alternative:
Out Now: Free Tier Model for SAP Master Data Governance, Cloud Edition
Try out SAP Master Data Governance, cloud edition for free!
Hi Markus Ganser,
The links to the step-by-step descriptions above seem to be broken. Are you able to provide updated links to access the exercise documents?
Thanks,
Mustafa.
Hi Mustafa,
As pointed out in the update note at the beginning of the blog: the public trial has been replaced with a free tier model.
See also the comment by Andreas above.
Thanks Markus. I am aware of the move to the free tier model and am subscribing to that to try out MDG Cloud Edition. However, the links I was referring to are the documentation links for the Exercises which I assume should still be valid for the free tier model:
I managed to find the correct documentation links in the SAP Discovery Centre. You may wish to update this blog post with the same.