Master Data Management

Master data and its management are critical to an organization’s survival. Laurus' unique managed service provides an unsurpassed way to manage complex data inherent in ERP systems. Master data is a big concern, affecting your work every day. But proper, proven master data management can empower you and your business.

• MDM goes beyond technology and the IT department. MDM incorporates technology but also relies heavily on processes. Effectively managing master data is an issue critical to the entire business, so the route often requires changes to business process.
• MDM is entirely different from a data warehouse. Master data is constantly needed by and referred to by various applications on a real-time basis to fulfill operations, as well as for deeper analysis.
• MDM is not a single application or piece of software. Rather, it is a foundation platform providing reference data for business applications and business processes to become more effective.

Learn More about Laurus with these resources:

• Free White Paper on Master Data Management
• Information on our SAP Data Extraction capabilities 
• Laurus Business Applications Brochure
• Podcast with Laurus Technologies’ VP of Business Applications Mike Kerrigan

Laurus is dedicated to helping clients achieve the most efficient use of their existing SAP software. It helps maximize SAP investment and productivity by leveraging its vast, worldwide SAP software experience. Capabilities and services include SAP business strategy and environment management consulting, architecture planning, application optimization, platform sizing, performance tuning, application and technical consulting, and upgrade guidance and support. Working with only the best resources, Laurus provides clients with access to thousands of skilled SAP engineers, using strategic partnerships with Quadrate and Gaine Solutions for SAP data migrations.

Laurus can help you evaluate:

• Know if the Master Data in SAP is correct
  • Customer Masters
  • Material Masters
  • Vendor Masters
• Reduce your overall costs in managing data
• Put more control and quality into data management
• Reduce conversion and migration costs by 60%
• Give business users more responsibility for their data

Laurus has a firmly established the framework for helping companies with Enterprise Data Management (EDM). As part of this framework, we have collaborated with partners to bring software tools and master data managed services to the SAP market as one solution offering to help companies manage the complicated and changing world of data on a global basis.

Laurus’ management team has significant implementation experience covering well over 100 full life cycle implementations. Together with our partners, we know SAP and how to manage master data. It is our goal to help clients achieve the results they need at reasonable costs.

Described below are three areas that we believe will help customers achieve the success that you require in this project:

1. SAP Consulting expertise
2. MDX engine to quickly validate and report the suspect data records and to keep record of all changes and decisions in the project at the record level
3. Quadrate/Qubed software to provide the extracts of the vendor master data and the transactional open documents in SAP
    

Key Benefits:

• Reduces costly IT resource requirements
• Provides ad-hoc extraction and reporting functionality without any programming
• Utilizes familiar data management tools, thus eliminating additional training
• Provides access to data without needing access to SE16 or SQ01

The people at Laurus are experts at what they do and are able to deliver the highest IT optimization available. And because the Laurus team includes experienced engineers and consultants, it can develop a truly customized solution to a company’s business needs, one that provides a competitive advantage and superior ROI.