HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) manual Master Data Management Overview

5 SAP Master Data Management (MDM)

SGeSAP legacy packaging provides a cluster solution for server components of SAP Master Data Management (MDM) 5.5, i.e. the MDB, MDS, MDIS and MDSS servers. They can be handled as a single package or split up into four individual packages.

Master Data Management - Overview

Figure 5.1 provides a general flow of how SGeSAP works with MDM.

•The Upper Layer - contains the User Interface components.

•The Middle Layer - contains the MDM Server components. The MDM components to be clustered with SGeSAP are from the middle layer. These are MDS, MDIS, MDSS and MDB.

•The Lower Layer - contains the Inbound and Outbound connections into an SAP Netweaver XI environment.

Figure 5-1 MDM Graphical Overview

Master Data Management User Interface Components

Table 5-1 details the two MDM user interface categories, as it relates to SGeSAP:

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