Data Governance

The lack of a data governance model is costing your organization money! 

Without an active data governance process, your organization is creating duplicate customers, duplicate vendors, and incomplete materials every day!  Without an active data governance process, your organization does not manage data quality; instead, it suffers from the lack of good quality data. 

The consequences of duplicate customers, vendors and materials are well documented.  The impact of poor quality data is impairing your business every day.  Putting a process in place to ensure data quality is what we call an “Active Data Governance Model™”.  By deploying an “Active Data Governance Model”, you can ensure that every master data record is “Business Ready” before touching SAP^®.  Duplicate vendors and customers are trapped before you save them.   No longer will you be able to create a finished good and forget to price it!

The BackOffice Associates, LLC suite of “Collaborative Master Data Governance™”, CMDG, allows you to proactively manage your corporate master data.  CMDG is a secure web based front end to SAP that is scenario based, task and  role based and fully integrated with either SAP workflow or any standard email based workflow.

The “Active Data Governance Model” was developed utilizing years of SAP data migration project experience.  BackOffice Associates™ has managed some of the world’s largest SAP data migrations for several Global Fortune 100 corporations.  As a result of our extensive experience with SAP implementations, we have a profound understanding of what it takes to get your data business ready for SAP.

We have taken our understanding of the unique and complex data requirements of SAP and its related suite of extensions and developed a comprehensive plan and suite of applications to allow you to manage and control your master data.


We leverage our experience to provide you with the best Data Governance
We have experience in both centralized and decentralized governance models.  Our experts understand the collaborative needs of the new data introduction process and the mission critical requirement to protect the system from receiving anything less than business ready data. We have helped several customers piece their own solutions together to meet their exacting needs for blocking new errors from entering the system and identifying existing errors among their various data sources.

While no vendor offers either a one-size-fits-all or an out of the box blanket solution, we have several composite applications that solve some of the most pressing tactical problems within master data processes that we see among clients.  Through those services, we have helped customers gain greater oversight in their master data processes and place countermeasures precisely where needed.  The results have been robust, efficient, NetWeaver™ compliant solutions that deliver a high return on investment.

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