Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for Master Data Governance

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Master Data Governance: Overview

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product, which means that the software is licensed through a subscription model and is accessed via the Internet. With SAP managing tasks like installation and upgrades, users can focus more on optimizing their business processes.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a standardized, in-memory ERP running in the cloud that connects your entire workforce, suppliers, customers, and assets to the digital core, offering scalability, ease of management, and security that companies must prioritize in today’s digital economy.

The next figure describes the features of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance.

This graphic illustrates the features of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance - New user experience, Lowest SaaS based Total cost of ownership, pre-configured best practises to realize results right away, market-leading localization, continuous feature delivery, and unmatched time-to-value to deliver on business priorities.

Note

"SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance" refers to an offering that includes the technical product SAP S/4HANA Cloud as the main component and a large variety of surrounding services.

When you sign a subscription contract for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance, not only do you get the technical product SAP S/4HANA Cloud, but also an entire environment that contains extra products and services, designed to support your business processes. The environment you receive is modular; this means that it contains some default products that are necessary for the standard functions, while other products are optional, and their inclusion depends on your business requirements.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, master data governance, targets to provide tailored master data management processes for the public cloud: leverage effective consolidation, mass processing, data quality management, and remediation of master data to govern business partner (including customer and supplier) and product master data in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Master Data Governance: Functional Scope

The table below lists the key capabilities of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for Master Data Governance.

Key Capability	Purpose
Master Data Consolidation*	Process master data from uploaded files, detect duplicates, and calculate best records based on survivorship rules, creates a single source of truth of your customer, supplier, and product data
Mass Processing*	Efficiently make changes to large amounts of customer, supplier, and product data
Data Quality Management*	Define, enforce, monitor, and improve the quality of business partner and product data
Mass Load & Mass Maintenance	Process master data from uploaded files and make changes to large amounts of customer, supplier, and product data
Integration	Exchange your master data between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other SAP systems, for instance, SAP Master Data Governance, using standardized APIs
* Additional use package license required: SAP S/4HANA Cloud for master data governance

Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Master Data Governance

Business Partner and Product master data are essential objects that typically must be exchanged with other cloud products and on-premise software solutions, as shown in the next figure.

Therefore, the Business Partner and Product master data APIs have already been added to the positive list externally with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1611 and the list continues to be extended.

Note

The list of permissible APIs has been published and released on SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

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