There is a growing trend of moving away from point-to-point integration between applications. In this context, the SAP Master Data Integration service becomes a central access layer for master data sharing and distribution in hybrid and cloud environments.
SAP Master Data Governance continues to ensure enterprise-wide processes for master data consolidation, central governance, and data quality management, ensuring that key master data shared using SAP Master Data Integration is consistent and of high quality.
- Master Data Integration
- Use SAP Master Data Integration as a central access layer for master data sharing and distribution.
- Master Data Management
- Use SAP Master Data Governance for enterprise-wide processes for master data consolidation, central governance, and data quality management.
Sharing Master Data
SAP Master Data Governance is used for related master data management activities to make sure that master data is consistent and of sufficient quality for sharing. SAP Master Data Integration and SAP Master Data Governance are complementary when it comes to the provisioning of high-quality data in hybrid landscapes. Master data is part of a company's digital core. Whether on-premise or cloud-based, it must be available and ready to use for all consuming applications.
Typically, master data is created within Lines of Business (LoBs). Therefore, a key prerequisite for the intelligent enterprise is that it integrates the right processes to ensure that master data is complete, accurate, and non-redundant, so that it is ready to be shared across organizational, operational, and analytical systems in a hybrid landscape.
In this context, SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise master data management solution for hybrid landscapes (that is, landscapes consisting of on-premise and cloud applications), providing consolidation, central governance, and master data quality management features, which makes it the single source of truth for master data.
Additionally, in a cloud-centric context, SAP Master Data Integration is a central access and master data integration layer that supports harmonized data consumption by cloud and on-premise applications. Based on an aligned data model and scale-in/scale-out capabilities, it is perfectly tailored for flexible master data sharing in hybrid landscapes.
Evolution of Master Data Integration
In the past, master data integration was enabled with mere point-to-point connections. SAP Master Data Governance in the center was used for master data management and integration. Nowadays, SAP Master Data Integration is used for master data integration and SAP Master Data Governance is used for master data management.
