CDI

[#1]

Hi!

Can anyone please address the following questions:

- Who are the data quality partners for SAP? if none, how does SAP go about the data profiling, cleansing, matching, de-dup stages?

- SAP is primarily looked upon as a PIM vendor. Does SAP MDM has customers in the CDI area too? If yes, who are they? Are their any indian customers? In case anyone has any case study in this context, I'll be obliged if you forward the same.

Thanks,

Taj.

[Former Member]

Hi Markus,

I had already referred that blog since you had sent me the link in your earlier reply too. My question was based on that only. Following is an excerpt of the blog -

"The Rules tab (with which you can specify a score for the success, failure and undefined conditions) allows you to define matching rules that are for comparing field values of record pairs. The matching functions include Equals (exact match) and Token Equals (match on one or more tokens). The set of functions will increase over time, making MDM matching highly extensible."

It clearly states that as of now the matching functionality is very limited. The only enhancement that I see is that while earlier one had to manually merge records once they were detected as suspects for a match, now it can happen automatically.

[Mark63]

Prior to SP4, the detection of duplicates was based on interactive search and comparison, whereas as of SP04 the matching mode allows for strategy-based duplicate detection (including indicators such as matching scores). So the detection of possible duplicates has been streamlined a lot compared to previous editions of MDM 5.5. (It's not about the merge step).

So I think this is a substantial improvement.

Regards,

Markus