Solutions
Two products. One intelligence layer.
Refresh Desktop cleans and transforms the enterprise data you already have.
Refresh Server helps keep new master data right from the moment it is created.
Both draw on the same proven enterprise-scale AI and two decades of proprietary Material Data Intelligence.
Refresh Desktop
Clean hundreds of thousands of existing records in one go
Refresh Desktop is an easy-to-use bulk application for cleansing, standardizing, classifying, enriching and deduplicating large volumes of enterprise data.
It works with data from SAP, Oracle, IBM Maximo, legacy systems and other enterprise applications — from material and item masters to spare parts, finished-product specifications, services and free-text purchasing data.
What it does
- Clean and standardize descriptions, naming conventions, units and structures
- Automatically classify materials, products and services
- Extract and populate technical attributes and specifications
- Identify manufacturers, part numbers, duplicates, equivalents and substitutes
- Turn unstructured purchasing and PO text into usable structured data
- Enrich, normalize and translate data across sites and languages
When to use it
Before go-live
Clean and transform legacy data before an ERP, S/4HANA, MDM or other major implementation — reducing the effort and cost of data conversion and starting the new system with better data.
After go-live
Carry out a mass clean-up, harmonize data across sites and systems, classify spend, identify duplicates or correct years of accumulated inconsistency.
The result is clean, structured enterprise data produced at a scale and speed that would be impractical to achieve manually.
Refresh Server
Get new master data right first time
Refresh Server brings Refresh intelligence into the everyday creation and governance of new master data.
Most commonly deployed in SAP environments today, it provides a rich, preconfigured master-data governance layer containing the standards, dictionaries, templates, validation logic and automation needed to create high-quality records from day one.
What it does
- Propose standardized descriptions automatically
- Guide users to the correct classes, characteristics and values
- Validate and auto-correct data as it is entered
- Check for duplicates before another material is created
- Suggest existing alternatives and equivalent parts
- Generate consistent short, long and purchasing descriptions
- Apply multilingual standards and terminology
- Support controlled workflows, approvals and auditing
When to use it
With an existing MDG platform
Add Refresh intelligence, automation, standards and validation to an existing SAP MDG or other master-data governance environment.
Without an existing MDG platform
Provide users with a preconfigured process for creating, validating and approving high-quality master data without having to build all of the underlying standards and logic from scratch.
For ongoing governance
Keep new materials, items, products and services consistent across sites, systems and users as they are created.
The result is a faster, more consistent master-data creation process with the standards and controls needed to get new records right first time.
Use either product independently — or together
Refresh Desktop and Refresh Server solve different parts of the master-data problem.
Refresh Desktop is designed for bulk work on existing data — whether for a migration, a major clean-up, classification project or ongoing large-scale data improvement.
Refresh Server is designed for ongoing master-data creation and governance — helping users create standardized, validated records correctly from the start.
Organizations can deploy either product independently. Where both needs exist, Refresh Desktop can transform the existing data while Refresh Server helps ensure that new data remains clean and consistent thereafter.
The intelligence behind both products
Refresh combines modern AI, classical machine learning and deterministic algorithms with two decades of proprietary Material Data Intelligence.
That intelligence has been built up through real enterprise data-standardization projects and includes accumulated classifications, dictionaries, ontologies, naming standards, attributes, mappings, templates, validation rules and domain knowledge.
Much of the intelligence required to cleanse existing data or create high-quality new records is therefore already built into Refresh — rather than every customer having to define and build it again from scratch.
Refresh does not ask a general-purpose AI model to rediscover your master-data standards from first principles. AI is used where its flexibility adds value, while controlled algorithms, standards and validation are used where accuracy, consistency and repeatability matter.
What better master data delivers
- Faster, lower-cost ERP data conversions and migrations
- Reduced inventory and working capital through better duplicate and substitute visibility
- Improved spend visibility and supplier consolidation
- Easier searching for materials, parts, products and services
- More complete specifications, manufacturer and part-number data
- Better procurement, engineering and maintenance processes
- Higher tariff, tax, accounting and data-governance compliance
- A clean, structured foundation for enterprise AI
See Refresh on your data
The easiest way to understand Refresh is to see it work.
Send us a representative sample or book a live demonstration and we’ll show you how Refresh can cleanse, classify, enrich, standardize and deduplicate your enterprise data.