SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.

1
Administrator's Guide

Dont just manage excel at managing your master

data with SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1

Uday Rao

professional expertise distilled

P U B L I S H I N G

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide

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Uday Rao Leena Purkait

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Ankur Goel Linda Morris
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 About the Author

Uday Rao is an Engineering graduate with a Bachelors of Engineering Degree in

Information Technology from PESIT college, Visvesvaraya Technological University.
He started his career as a Java programmer and soon started writing Enterprise Java
Beans for the SAP MDM Enrichment Adapter.

He is a certified SAP NetWeaver MDM 5.5 Technology Consultant and is also

certified in SAP ABAP with over four years of work experience in the IT industry
including over three years work experience on SAP NetWeaver MDM.

Apart from the MDM core implementations, he has also worked on creating SAP
NetWeaver MDM Enrichment adapters, incorporating MDM Java APIs, MDM
ABAP APIs, developing SAP WebDynpro Java applications, and SAP MDM Portal
integration. His experience on other SAP technologies include: working on SAP
WebDynpro ABAP, creating and testing SAP ABAP programs for various support
and development projects, performing product testing for SAP MDM 7.1 and SAP
Master Data Governance.

He has also published SAP SDN community network blog on the SAP MDM
Enrichment Adapter titled SAP MDM Enrichment Adapter - more than just enrichment.

Contact Uday Rao:

E-mail: udayrao.28@gmail.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/uday-rao/7/9b5/9a

Thank you Leena, Rebecca, Vincila, Dhwani, Hyacintha, Sakina, and

all the folks from Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to
author this book. Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank
my parents Poonam and Vittal, my brother Prateek, and my wife
Deepika for their continuous support and encouragement to author
this book.
 About the Reviewers

Ankur R Goel is a SAP AG Certified MDM freelancer Consultant. He has worked

with some of the greatest SAP consulting organizations like IBM, Satyam, and
also SAP itself on various Implementations, Scoping exercises, Strategy studies,
pre-sales and Enhancement co-ordinations in SAP-MDM, SAP-BW, SAP-ABAP in
various roles of Team member, Consultant, Coordinator, and Team Lead to Solution
Architect, and handled multiple projects simultaneously. He has authored more
than 20 blogs and 20 whitepapers in SAP MDM, BI and has been a lead contributor
in SDN forums. He is also authoring a book. Ankur has many awards and customer
appreciations to his credit. He can be found on http://in.linkedin.com/in/
ankurrgoel.

Patrick Rayes is a Senior Project Manager and Solution Architect with a proven
10-year track record in successful global and large-scale ERP and e-Commerce
implementations. Specialized in SAP and Microsoft business solutions, and
accredited with industry-recognized certifications and formal educational
background in software architecture and design, he has worked on numerous mid-
to-large scale projects of up to 50 resources and budgets of well over $15 million.

Combined with his global experience of working in countries such as the US,
Canada, and Europe, he carries enterprise-class experience from companies such as
FootLocker, IATA, Nestle, IBM, and the New York Times.

I would like to personally thank the amazing team at Packt

Publishing for providing the valuable resources I needed to review
this book, including the author who worked tirelessly towards
delivering a quality guide. Also to my wife and parents, who have
supported my ambitions and career. Lastly, to my dog who for many
nights has patiently waited for me during late night working hours
eager for her next walk.
Swarnadeepika Subramanian completed her Bachelor of Technology Degree
from Anna University in 2005. She joined Cognizant the same year and started her
career as a SAP Enterprise Portal consultant. Her expertise was eventually
enhanced in SAP Master Data Management with experience on varied areas
through numerous client engagements.

She has to her credit many organization-wide MDM training sessions for entry-level
trainees as well as experienced professionals.

Thank you to my husband, who is also the author, for his support
towards helping me spend time to review this book.

Sebastian Tinnirello is an IT Engineer working since 1993 on business-oriented

IT projects. Over the last 10 years, the projects he was involved on have been in
the Supply Chain Management (SCM) and E-Procurement areas and he has a
demonstrated experience of implementing and managing full cycle SAP ERP MM,
SRM, CCM, MDM-CAT, requisite projects in some twenty societies around
the world.

He has been fortunate in the last ten years to have worked for large multi-national
companies such as Repsol-YPF and TOTAL (both from the Oil and Gas Sector),
Endesa Group (Energy), and Tenaris (Steel Industry). His roles have varied
between Project team member, Lead consultant, Project/Division manager,
and currently CEO.

Founder of his own company, called eProcure.AR (http://www.eprocure-ar.com),

based on consulting services around SAP SRM, MDM-CAT, SAP ESourcing, and
SAP CLM. In addition to attending the company's management aspects, he still
works in several projects as expert Consultant, including implementations, Q&A,
trainings, and so on.

I would really like to thank my family and all my friends for

supporting me during my entire career
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My efforts in this book are dedicated to my wife, my family, my colleagues,
and my friends.