2020-09-13T07:02:24Z

What needs improvement with SAP Master Data Governance?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Vishal Khare - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2024-01-24T14:19:49Z
Jan 24, 2024

The platform's pricing needs improvement.

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DharmaRaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-28T10:11:02Z
Nov 28, 2023

The profiling feature, especially for materials, needs improvement. We faced challenges maintaining specific details for a single material from multiple vendors.

ST
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-25T07:10:16Z
Oct 25, 2023

It is difficult to expand the product with new functionalities. It takes time and specific knowledge. We require a specialist with experience in it. Integration with other tools like Salesforce and SAP Ariba is not stable. The product is not user-friendly. It takes time to work with the tool. The tool is not flexible.

UdayReddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2023-09-27T12:34:06Z
Sep 27, 2023

As per my knowledge, I have not faced any issues with the product till now. Looking at the market today, I can say that the main competitor for SAP Master Data Governance is artificial intelligence. In SAP Master Data Governance, a user needs to select where a file should be uploaded or downloaded from in some of the cases in SAP Master Data Governance. It would be better to integrate artificial intelligence into SAP Master Data Governance so that a user does not need to track file locations. For example, be it files in formats like PDF, CSV, and XML, the artificial intelligence technology will help users pull the files automatically and help with the uploading or downloading part, which, in turn, will take less time. In general, I want artificial intelligence added to SAP Master Data Governance since I feel it is one of the areas where the solution has certain shortcomings.

PradeepKumar22 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-04-21T15:38:00Z
Apr 21, 2023

They should integrate the solution with different domains. Also, they should include features for product planning, QM master data, etc. Its pricing needs improvement too. In addition, they should make it more user-friendly.

VG
Real User
Top 10
2023-03-17T10:10:00Z
Mar 17, 2023

They should improve the solution's performance as sometimes the process consumes much time.

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HM
Real User
Top 20
2023-03-16T08:08:00Z
Mar 16, 2023

The multidomain MDM feature is based on EIP systems, which may not be a good model for all master data.

Kumar Saurav - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-01T13:29:27Z
Aug 1, 2022

Although changes are currently being made to fix it, the product can be improved by ensuring data matches when upgrading to a new system because every system does not use SAP. Furthermore, the product has five different solutions with varying data models so stability is vital to SAP. Every time there is a connection with a new system, customization needs to be redone to ensure both layers can communicate seamlessly and data models need to be set.

SurenderJ - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10
2022-07-15T09:53:05Z
Jul 15, 2022

In terms of bringing out the data and resource performance, we're looking for a more enhanced version. MDG doesn't work for all material types of activities that I think it should be dealing with. If that were to change, this solution would be a step above other ERP systems. I'd like to see some planning-related activities included in the product.

Abhijit Misra - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-06-19T05:52:00Z
Jun 19, 2022

The user experience can be improved.

DP
Real User
2022-01-24T15:15:02Z
Jan 24, 2022

One thing that could be improved is the documentation provided for the MDG extensions by Utopia. I'd also like to see increased maturity around reference data solutions. The solution already has some key master data domains but it would be helpful to have a few more that are not out of the box.

JK
Real User
2021-10-13T08:46:20Z
Oct 13, 2021

I'd like to see more flexibility which is currently lacking. They need to add a cloud option as well as multiple creations. We're looking for a better mass upload.

OA
Consultant
2021-02-04T07:30:38Z
Feb 4, 2021

The implementation could be easier. The governance of master data is difficult, and consolidating the old data is really hard. MDG projects tend to last a minimum of six months, and this is largely due to the fact that there are too many rules. The biggest problem in MDG is that you have to make rules and you have to set your rules very strictly and you need to prepare your data for your rules. If you don't, your old data is kaput. The marketing of the product outside of Europe should be better. While it might be well known in places like Germany or England, it doesn't have the same recognition in Turkey. Our first MDG project was only two or three years ago. It's pretty new to the scene. The solution is lacking configuration in one system. For example, there's a lack of country definitions, country tax category definitions in MDG, and in all ERPs. When MM projects are done, they configure everything. For example, my customer only does business with European Union countries. They don't define European Union country's tax number categories, however, when they deal with Israel, they don't define it in the old ERP system. It's a problem. You need to have a conversation with all seven ERP consultants and tell them to redefine this tax number category. It could be better, maybe, or easier.

KS
Real User
2021-01-28T18:58:00Z
Jan 28, 2021

The price can be improved.

PG
Real User
2021-01-10T18:01:03Z
Jan 10, 2021

The tools have been improved quite a lot over a period of time with data mining rules. The UI could improve by being more neat and clean. Sometimes users find it difficult to use it. When using the solutions I feel the performance could improve.

KN
Real User
2020-10-11T08:58:19Z
Oct 11, 2020

The workflow works well, however, there's not a lot of options in defining roles. There are roles that are very specific within the MDG and we had to adapt our process to the roles that are in the workflow. I'm talking about the workflow in the roles, not access rights or things of that nature (such as access or identity management). I'm talking about how the flow works in the different types of roles. It's not very flexible. Overall, they just a little bit more flexibility in terms of assigning roles or adding new roles. We have a longer approval process, so we need to break it down into more roles than what is typically available and we need to hard-code it.

OX
Real User
2020-09-13T07:02:24Z
Sep 13, 2020

What SAP needs to do for this product is to improve the user-friendliness of the dashboard to make sure they are going to have a more user-friendly product in the future. Another task for SAP is to accommodate China's local requirements because this product is still a global one. Sometimes what the module does will not fit so well for Chinese user requirements. It needs to be more global-aware.

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