MDG & EIM Foundations

Your EIM business case is full of cost-savings and efficiency numbers but stalls with executives. What is it missing?

Why does the pitch 'we want to reduce duplication across our customer master data' fail as an EIM business case?

How does a well-defined EIM process reduce the cycle time to create a master data record?

A customer exercises the right to be forgotten, but open invoices sit under a seven-year legal retention. Must that personal data be deleted?

In SAP MDG, what does setting the End of Purpose (EOP) flag actually do to a personal-data record?

MDG is co-deployed with the transactional system in S/4HANA. Why might a request to block a personal-data record be refused?

In the end-of-purpose flow, what does SAP MDG handle versus SAP ILM after the EOP flag is set?

What is the concrete deliverable of the architecture and metadata management phase of the EIM capability model?

The EIM capability model is drawn as a progression from architecture/metadata around to information lifecycle management. Does a company address only the phase matching its maturity?

After data is profiled, cleansed, and monitored, why is a master data management governance layer still essential?

What fundamentally distinguishes the consolidation MDM scenario from central management?

When consolidation merges records from many systems into one golden record, what decides which field value wins?

How does the registry MDM scenario differ from consolidation, and when would you choose it?

Does adopting MDG central governance mean one global team must maintain all master data?

MDG added a data quality management scenario. How does it differ from consolidation-style cleansing?

MDG's differentiator over cleansing and de-duplication tools is not doing those tasks better. What is it?

MDG's original and primary use case is central governance. When would you deliberately use it for pure consolidation instead?

Why can a single organization that is both a supplier and a customer share data across those roles in MDG?

Why is it significant that MDG's EAM and Retail/Fashion extensions were themselves built on the custom objects framework?

What organizational shift separates a Reactive (Level 2) EIM company from a Monitoring (Level 3) one?

A company already detects and fixes data-quality issues as they arise. What must change to reach the Proactive (Level 4) stage?

Beyond preventing data issues, what marks an organization as Strategic (Level 5) in EIM maturity?

The EIM organizational drivers group into three categories. Which is described as the most lucrative, and why is that counterintuitive?

What makes the hybrid (coexistence) MDM scenario more than just consolidation plus central management?