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Hi,

My company is upgrading to the latest ECC from SAP older version, in such a case we need to migrate all the data from old to new.

In such situation one would use migration tools available out in the market to cleanse and remove duplicates and import into ECC(both master and transaction).

1. Is it advisable to use SAP MDM in such a situation to migrate all the data handling the conversions instead of a standard migrating tool? I am not sure if MDM would be as expected to do a good migration job.

2. If MDM is preferred, then what is the best way to migrate the transaction data?

3. If SAP MDM is not prefered as a migration tool, rather use a standard migration mechanism, then I would say all the cleansing efforts would have already been completed by the migration tool, then we wouldn't require MDM to do the cleansing efforts.

Please correct me if I am analysis it the wrong way.

Appreciate all your responses.

Rgds,

Peter.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

According to my level of understanding about MDM tool, MDM works well for data migration.Its equally good with any other data migration tool.I do accept that the Cleansing is quite difficult,since merging of records has to be done manually.

You can migrate the transaction data using LSMW or use BAPI (if many logics has to be applied).

If you prefer other migration tool instead of MDM, still MDM can be used as a data hub.It can be used like data from the X Migration tool can be stored in MDM and new records should be created in MDM(CMDM) and MDM will syndicate the records to other SAP and Non-SAP systems.By this way you can have a good control over your data and further duplicates can be avoided.

Thanks,

Felix