Hexaware is a leading global provider of IT and BPO services with leadership positions in banking, financial services, insurance, transportation and logistics. It focuses on delivering business results through technology solutions such as business intelligence and analytics, enterprise applications, independent testing and legacy modernization. Hexaware has over 18 years of experience in providing business technology solutions and offers world class services, technology expertise and skilled human capital.
1) MDM is the process of creating a single point of reference for highly shared types of data like customers, products, and suppliers. It links multiple data sources to ensure consistent policies for accessing, updating, and routing exceptions for master data.
2) Successful MDM requires defining business needs, setting up governance roles, designing flexible platforms, and engaging lines of business in incremental programs. Common challenges include lack of clear business cases and roadmaps.
3) Key aspects of MDM include modeling shared data, managing data quality, enabling stewardship of data, and integrating/propagating master data to operational systems in real-time or batch processes.
The document discusses strategies for managing master data through a Master Data Management (MDM) solution. It outlines challenges with current data management practices and goals for an improved MDM approach. Key considerations for implementing an effective MDM strategy include identifying initial data domains, use cases, source systems, consumers, and the appropriate MDM patterns to address business needs.
Reference matter data management:
Two categories of structured data :
Master data: is data associated with core business entities such as customer, product, asset, etc.
Transaction data: is the recording of business transactions such as orders in manufacturing, loan and credit card payments in banking, and product sales in retail.
Reference data: is any kind of data that is used solely to categorize other data found in a database, or solely for relating data in a database to information beyond the boundaries of the enterprise .
Most Common Data Governance Challenges in the Digital EconomyRobyn Bollhorst
Todays’ increasing emphasis on differentiation in the digital economy further complicates the data governance challenge. Learn about today’s common challenges and about the new adaptations that are required to support the digital era. Avoid the pitfalls and follow along on Johnson & Johnson’s journey to:
- Establish and scale a best in class enterprise data governance program
- Identify and focus on the most critical data and information to bolster incremental wins and garner executive support
- Ensure readiness for automation with SAP MDG on HANA
Master Data Management – Aligning Data, Process, and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Master Data Management (MDM) provides organizations with an accurate and comprehensive view of their business-critical data such as customers, products, vendors, and more. While mastering these key data areas can be a complex task, the value of doing so can be tremendous – from real-time operational integration to data warehousing and analytic reporting. This webinar will provide practical strategies for gaining value from your MDM initiative, while at the same time assuring a solid architectural and governance foundation that will ensure long-term, enterprise-wide success.
Overcoming the Challenges of your Master Data Management JourneyJean-Michel Franco
This Presentaion runs you through all the key steps of an MDM initiative. It considers and showcase the key milestones and building blocks that you will have to roll-out to make your MDM
journey
-> Please contact Talend for a dedicated interactive sessions with a storyboard by customer domain
How to Build & Sustain a Data Governance Operating Model DATUM LLC
Learn how to execute a data governance strategy through creation of a successful business case and operating model.
Originally presented to an audience of 400+ at the Master Data Management & Data Governance Summit.
Visit www.datumstrategy.com for more!
Master Data Management - Gartner Presentation303Computing
This document discusses Digital Realty's implementation of a master data management (MDM) system. It provides an overview of MDM and why most projects fail. Digital Realty is succeeding by taking an agile approach with flexible multi-domain solutions. They leverage data virtualization and have identified data champions to manage master data domains like customers, products, facilities and people. The MDM implementation has provided benefits like improved data quality monitoring, faster integration of acquired companies, and ensuring compliance with data governance policies. Digital Realty is working to expand their MDM to additional transactional and dimensional master data entities.
1) MDM is the process of creating a single point of reference for highly shared types of data like customers, products, and suppliers. It links multiple data sources to ensure consistent policies for accessing, updating, and routing exceptions for master data.
2) Successful MDM requires defining business needs, setting up governance roles, designing flexible platforms, and engaging lines of business in incremental programs. Common challenges include lack of clear business cases and roadmaps.
3) Key aspects of MDM include modeling shared data, managing data quality, enabling stewardship of data, and integrating/propagating master data to operational systems in real-time or batch processes.
The document discusses strategies for managing master data through a Master Data Management (MDM) solution. It outlines challenges with current data management practices and goals for an improved MDM approach. Key considerations for implementing an effective MDM strategy include identifying initial data domains, use cases, source systems, consumers, and the appropriate MDM patterns to address business needs.
Reference matter data management:
Two categories of structured data :
Master data: is data associated with core business entities such as customer, product, asset, etc.
Transaction data: is the recording of business transactions such as orders in manufacturing, loan and credit card payments in banking, and product sales in retail.
Reference data: is any kind of data that is used solely to categorize other data found in a database, or solely for relating data in a database to information beyond the boundaries of the enterprise .
Most Common Data Governance Challenges in the Digital EconomyRobyn Bollhorst
Todays’ increasing emphasis on differentiation in the digital economy further complicates the data governance challenge. Learn about today’s common challenges and about the new adaptations that are required to support the digital era. Avoid the pitfalls and follow along on Johnson & Johnson’s journey to:
- Establish and scale a best in class enterprise data governance program
- Identify and focus on the most critical data and information to bolster incremental wins and garner executive support
- Ensure readiness for automation with SAP MDG on HANA
Master Data Management – Aligning Data, Process, and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Master Data Management (MDM) provides organizations with an accurate and comprehensive view of their business-critical data such as customers, products, vendors, and more. While mastering these key data areas can be a complex task, the value of doing so can be tremendous – from real-time operational integration to data warehousing and analytic reporting. This webinar will provide practical strategies for gaining value from your MDM initiative, while at the same time assuring a solid architectural and governance foundation that will ensure long-term, enterprise-wide success.
Overcoming the Challenges of your Master Data Management JourneyJean-Michel Franco
This Presentaion runs you through all the key steps of an MDM initiative. It considers and showcase the key milestones and building blocks that you will have to roll-out to make your MDM
journey
-> Please contact Talend for a dedicated interactive sessions with a storyboard by customer domain
How to Build & Sustain a Data Governance Operating Model DATUM LLC
Learn how to execute a data governance strategy through creation of a successful business case and operating model.
Originally presented to an audience of 400+ at the Master Data Management & Data Governance Summit.
Visit www.datumstrategy.com for more!
Master Data Management - Gartner Presentation303Computing
This document discusses Digital Realty's implementation of a master data management (MDM) system. It provides an overview of MDM and why most projects fail. Digital Realty is succeeding by taking an agile approach with flexible multi-domain solutions. They leverage data virtualization and have identified data champions to manage master data domains like customers, products, facilities and people. The MDM implementation has provided benefits like improved data quality monitoring, faster integration of acquired companies, and ensuring compliance with data governance policies. Digital Realty is working to expand their MDM to additional transactional and dimensional master data entities.
The document discusses different techniques for building a Customer Data Hub (CDH), including registry, co-existence, and transactional techniques. It outlines the CDH build methodology, including data analysis, defining the data model and business logic, participation models, governance, and deliverables. An example enterprise customer data model is also shown using a hybrid-party model with relationships, hierarchies, and extended attributes.
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
MDM solutions require tightly integrated capabilities including data modeling, integration, synchronization, propagation, flexible architecture, granular and packaged services, performance, availability, analysis, information quality management, and security. These capabilities allow organizations to extend data models, integrate and synchronize data in real-time and batch processes across systems, measure ROI and data quality, and securely manage the MDM solution.
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
Suresh Menon, Vice President, Product Management - Information Quality Solutions at Informatica, shares how to master your data and your business from the 2015 Informatica Government Summit.
The Data Governance Annual Conference and International Data Quality Conference in San Diego was very good. I recommend this conference for business and IT persons responsible for data quality and data governenance. There will be a similar event in Orlando, December 2010. This is the presentation I delivered to a grateful audience.
Master Data Management - Aligning Data, Process, and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Master Data Management (MDM) can provide significant value to the organization in creating consistent key data assets such as Customer, Product, Supplier, Patient, and the list goes on. But getting MDM “right” requires a strategic mix of Data Architecture, business process, and Data Governance. Join this webinar to learn how to find the “sweet spot” between technology, design, process, and people for your MDM initiative.
Master Data Management (MDM) is a systematic approach to cleaning up customer data so businesses can manage it efficiently and grow effectively. MDM helps businesses achieve a single version of truth about customers. It deals with strategies, architectures, and technologies for managing customer data, known as Customer Data Integration (CDI). Implementing MDM requires gaining commitment from senior management, understanding business drivers and resource requirements, and providing estimates of benefits like reduced costs and increased sales. A pilot project should be proposed before a full implementation to demonstrate value and gather feedback.
This introduction to data governance presentation covers the inter-related DM foundational disciplines (Data Integration / DWH, Business Intelligence and Data Governance). Some of the pitfalls and success factors for data governance.
• IM Foundational Disciplines
• Cross-functional Workflow Exchange
• Key Objectives of the Data Governance Framework
• Components of a Data Governance Framework
• Key Roles in Data Governance
• Data Governance Committee (DGC)
• 4 Data Governance Policy Areas
• 3 Challenges to Implementing Data Governance
• Data Governance Success Factors
This webinar from Gartner provided seven building blocks for a successful master data management (MDM) plan: vision, strategy, metrics, information governance, organization and roles, information lifecycle, and enabling infrastructure. The presentation emphasized the importance of establishing an MDM vision aligned with business goals, assessing the organization's current MDM maturity, defining metrics to measure success, establishing governance, and considering organizational roles and responsibilities. It also stressed understanding the information lifecycle and having the right technology infrastructure.
This document discusses the importance of data quality and data governance. It states that poor data quality can lead to wrong decisions, bad reputation, and wasted money. It then provides examples of different dimensions of data quality like accuracy, completeness, currency, and uniqueness. It also discusses methods and tools for ensuring data quality, such as validation, data merging, and minimizing human errors. Finally, it defines data governance as a set of policies and standards to maintain data quality and provides examples of data governance team missions and a sample data quality scorecard.
Data Modeling, Data Governance, & Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation. But just as critical is the technical infrastructure that supports the diverse data environments that run the business. Data models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules and the technical data systems that support them. Without the valuable metadata these models provide, data governance often lacks the “teeth” to be applied in operational and reporting systems.
Join Donna Burbank and her guest, Nigel Turner, as they discuss how data models & metadata-driven data governance can be applied in your organization in order to achieve improved data quality.
Peter Vennel presents on the topic of DAMA DMBOK and Data Governance. He discusses his background and certifications. He then covers some key topics in data governance including the challenges of implementing it and defining what it is. He outlines the DAMA DMBOK knowledge areas and introduces the concept of a Data Management Center of Excellence (DMCoE) to establish governance. The DMCoE would include steering committees for each knowledge area and a data governance council and team.
Most companies do not think of data when they start out, let alone the quality of that data. With the proliferation of data and the usages of that data, organizations are compelled to focus more and more on data and their quality.
Join Kasu Sista of The Wisdom Chain to understand how to think about, implement, and maintain data quality.
You will learn about:
What do data people think about?
How do you get them to listen to what you want?
Business processes and data life span
Impact of data capture and data quality on down stream business processes
Data quality metrics and how to define them and use them
Practical metadata and data governance
What are the takeaways from the session?
How to talk to your data people
Understanding the importance of capturing data in the right way
Understanding the importance of quality metrics and bench marks
Understanding of operationalizing data quality processes
How to Strengthen Enterprise Data Governance with Data QualityDATAVERSITY
If your organization is in a highly-regulated industry – or relies on data for competitive advantage – data governance is undoubtedly a top priority. Whether you’re focused on “defensive” data governance (supporting regulatory compliance and risk management) or “offensive” data governance (extracting the maximum value from your data assets, and minimizing the cost of bad data), data quality plays a critical role in ensuring success.
Join our webinar to learn how enterprise data quality drives stronger data governance, including:
The overlaps between data governance and data quality
The “data” dependencies of data governance – and how data quality addresses them
Key considerations for deploying data quality for data governance
3 Keys To Successful Master Data Management - Final PresentationJames Chi
This document discusses keys to successful master data management including process, governance, and architecture. It summarizes a survey finding that while many companies see data as an asset, only around 20% have implemented master data management. Successful MDM requires alignment with business objectives, clear governance models, and comprehensive solution architectures. The document advocates establishing policies, procedures, standards, governance, and tools to create and maintain high-quality shared reference data.
Master data management (MDM) involves managing core business entities that are used across many business processes and systems. These entities include customers, products, suppliers, and more. MDM provides a single source of truth for key business data and ensures consistency. There are different domains of MDM, including customer data integration which manages party data, and product information management which manages product definitions. MDM systems can be used collaboratively to achieve agreement on topics, operationally as transaction systems, or for analytics on the managed data. Common implementation styles include registry, consolidation, transactional hub, and coexistence. MDM systems include repositories to store master data, services to manage it, and integration with other systems and applications.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Informatica Presents: 10 Best Practices for Successful MDM Implementations fr...DATAVERSITY
This document outlines the top 10 best practices for successful master data management (MDM) implementations according to MDM experts. It discusses supporting multiple business data domains, automatically generating web services and user interfaces, starting small and scaling the implementation, creating a single best version of truth, and ensuring the MDM solution supports reference data needs. The document is presented by speakers from The MDM Institute and an MDM product marketing company.
The document discusses Master Data Management (MDM). It defines MDM as a framework for creating and maintaining authoritative, reliable, accurate and secure master data across an enterprise. The key points covered are:
- MDM is needed to resolve data uncertainty and have a single version of truth. It identifies master data items and manages them.
- MDM implementation involves identifying master data sources, appointing data stewards, developing a data model, choosing tools, and designing infrastructure to generate and test master data.
- MDM provides benefits like a single version of truth, increased consistency, data governance and facilitates multiple domains and data analysis across departments.
The document discusses different techniques for building a Customer Data Hub (CDH), including registry, co-existence, and transactional techniques. It outlines the CDH build methodology, including data analysis, defining the data model and business logic, participation models, governance, and deliverables. An example enterprise customer data model is also shown using a hybrid-party model with relationships, hierarchies, and extended attributes.
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
MDM solutions require tightly integrated capabilities including data modeling, integration, synchronization, propagation, flexible architecture, granular and packaged services, performance, availability, analysis, information quality management, and security. These capabilities allow organizations to extend data models, integrate and synchronize data in real-time and batch processes across systems, measure ROI and data quality, and securely manage the MDM solution.
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
Suresh Menon, Vice President, Product Management - Information Quality Solutions at Informatica, shares how to master your data and your business from the 2015 Informatica Government Summit.
The Data Governance Annual Conference and International Data Quality Conference in San Diego was very good. I recommend this conference for business and IT persons responsible for data quality and data governenance. There will be a similar event in Orlando, December 2010. This is the presentation I delivered to a grateful audience.
Master Data Management - Aligning Data, Process, and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Master Data Management (MDM) can provide significant value to the organization in creating consistent key data assets such as Customer, Product, Supplier, Patient, and the list goes on. But getting MDM “right” requires a strategic mix of Data Architecture, business process, and Data Governance. Join this webinar to learn how to find the “sweet spot” between technology, design, process, and people for your MDM initiative.
Master Data Management (MDM) is a systematic approach to cleaning up customer data so businesses can manage it efficiently and grow effectively. MDM helps businesses achieve a single version of truth about customers. It deals with strategies, architectures, and technologies for managing customer data, known as Customer Data Integration (CDI). Implementing MDM requires gaining commitment from senior management, understanding business drivers and resource requirements, and providing estimates of benefits like reduced costs and increased sales. A pilot project should be proposed before a full implementation to demonstrate value and gather feedback.
This introduction to data governance presentation covers the inter-related DM foundational disciplines (Data Integration / DWH, Business Intelligence and Data Governance). Some of the pitfalls and success factors for data governance.
• IM Foundational Disciplines
• Cross-functional Workflow Exchange
• Key Objectives of the Data Governance Framework
• Components of a Data Governance Framework
• Key Roles in Data Governance
• Data Governance Committee (DGC)
• 4 Data Governance Policy Areas
• 3 Challenges to Implementing Data Governance
• Data Governance Success Factors
This webinar from Gartner provided seven building blocks for a successful master data management (MDM) plan: vision, strategy, metrics, information governance, organization and roles, information lifecycle, and enabling infrastructure. The presentation emphasized the importance of establishing an MDM vision aligned with business goals, assessing the organization's current MDM maturity, defining metrics to measure success, establishing governance, and considering organizational roles and responsibilities. It also stressed understanding the information lifecycle and having the right technology infrastructure.
This document discusses the importance of data quality and data governance. It states that poor data quality can lead to wrong decisions, bad reputation, and wasted money. It then provides examples of different dimensions of data quality like accuracy, completeness, currency, and uniqueness. It also discusses methods and tools for ensuring data quality, such as validation, data merging, and minimizing human errors. Finally, it defines data governance as a set of policies and standards to maintain data quality and provides examples of data governance team missions and a sample data quality scorecard.
Data Modeling, Data Governance, & Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation. But just as critical is the technical infrastructure that supports the diverse data environments that run the business. Data models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules and the technical data systems that support them. Without the valuable metadata these models provide, data governance often lacks the “teeth” to be applied in operational and reporting systems.
Join Donna Burbank and her guest, Nigel Turner, as they discuss how data models & metadata-driven data governance can be applied in your organization in order to achieve improved data quality.
Peter Vennel presents on the topic of DAMA DMBOK and Data Governance. He discusses his background and certifications. He then covers some key topics in data governance including the challenges of implementing it and defining what it is. He outlines the DAMA DMBOK knowledge areas and introduces the concept of a Data Management Center of Excellence (DMCoE) to establish governance. The DMCoE would include steering committees for each knowledge area and a data governance council and team.
Most companies do not think of data when they start out, let alone the quality of that data. With the proliferation of data and the usages of that data, organizations are compelled to focus more and more on data and their quality.
Join Kasu Sista of The Wisdom Chain to understand how to think about, implement, and maintain data quality.
You will learn about:
What do data people think about?
How do you get them to listen to what you want?
Business processes and data life span
Impact of data capture and data quality on down stream business processes
Data quality metrics and how to define them and use them
Practical metadata and data governance
What are the takeaways from the session?
How to talk to your data people
Understanding the importance of capturing data in the right way
Understanding the importance of quality metrics and bench marks
Understanding of operationalizing data quality processes
How to Strengthen Enterprise Data Governance with Data QualityDATAVERSITY
If your organization is in a highly-regulated industry – or relies on data for competitive advantage – data governance is undoubtedly a top priority. Whether you’re focused on “defensive” data governance (supporting regulatory compliance and risk management) or “offensive” data governance (extracting the maximum value from your data assets, and minimizing the cost of bad data), data quality plays a critical role in ensuring success.
Join our webinar to learn how enterprise data quality drives stronger data governance, including:
The overlaps between data governance and data quality
The “data” dependencies of data governance – and how data quality addresses them
Key considerations for deploying data quality for data governance
3 Keys To Successful Master Data Management - Final PresentationJames Chi
This document discusses keys to successful master data management including process, governance, and architecture. It summarizes a survey finding that while many companies see data as an asset, only around 20% have implemented master data management. Successful MDM requires alignment with business objectives, clear governance models, and comprehensive solution architectures. The document advocates establishing policies, procedures, standards, governance, and tools to create and maintain high-quality shared reference data.
Master data management (MDM) involves managing core business entities that are used across many business processes and systems. These entities include customers, products, suppliers, and more. MDM provides a single source of truth for key business data and ensures consistency. There are different domains of MDM, including customer data integration which manages party data, and product information management which manages product definitions. MDM systems can be used collaboratively to achieve agreement on topics, operationally as transaction systems, or for analytics on the managed data. Common implementation styles include registry, consolidation, transactional hub, and coexistence. MDM systems include repositories to store master data, services to manage it, and integration with other systems and applications.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Informatica Presents: 10 Best Practices for Successful MDM Implementations fr...DATAVERSITY
This document outlines the top 10 best practices for successful master data management (MDM) implementations according to MDM experts. It discusses supporting multiple business data domains, automatically generating web services and user interfaces, starting small and scaling the implementation, creating a single best version of truth, and ensuring the MDM solution supports reference data needs. The document is presented by speakers from The MDM Institute and an MDM product marketing company.
The document discusses Master Data Management (MDM). It defines MDM as a framework for creating and maintaining authoritative, reliable, accurate and secure master data across an enterprise. The key points covered are:
- MDM is needed to resolve data uncertainty and have a single version of truth. It identifies master data items and manages them.
- MDM implementation involves identifying master data sources, appointing data stewards, developing a data model, choosing tools, and designing infrastructure to generate and test master data.
- MDM provides benefits like a single version of truth, increased consistency, data governance and facilitates multiple domains and data analysis across departments.
Master Data Management: An Enterprise’s Key Asset to Bring Clean Corporate Ma...garry thomos
Over the last several decades, IT landscapes have proliferated into complex arrays of different systems, applications and technologies. Eventually, this fragmented environment has created significant data problems.
The document introduces DAMA SA and provides information about master data management (MDM). It defines MDM as a method to link critical enterprise data to a single master file for common reference across systems. MDM streamlines data sharing and facilitates computing across platforms. Reasons for implementing MDM include inconsistent data, improving data quality, and integrating customers, products, and other shared data. Common reasons for MDM projects failing include taking on too much too soon, not understanding the basic MDM concepts, and not properly analyzing or testing the data.
The what, why, and how of master data managementMohammad Yousri
This presentation explains what MDM is, why it is important, and how to manage it, while identifying some of the key MDM patterns and best practices that are emerging. This presentation is a high-level treatment of the problem space.
The presentation is summarizing the article of Microsoft in a simple way.
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Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible ...FindWhitePapers
This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
The document discusses master data management (MDM) and introduces EDR-MDS as a potential solution. It defines MDM and describes challenges with existing approaches. EDR-MDS is proposed as a service-oriented MDM approach that uses an Enterprise Domain Repository (EDR) to master disjoint business objects across systems. The EDR allows standard software to coexist with SOA by providing a simple, inexpensive strategy to control data redundancy and enforce governance through dynamic rules and automatic updates across sources.
Synergizing Master Data Management and Big DataCognizant
Master data management (MDM) is key to organizing, standardizing and linking volumes of big data that characterize today's information-driven environments. Understanding how MDM and big data inform and complement one another can offer organizations deeper, more actionable insights and a "single version of the truth" to support better decisions and realize new competitive advantages.
Making Information Management The Foundation Of The Future (Master Data Manag...William McKnight
More complex and demanding business environments lead to more heterogeneous systems environments. This, in turn, results in requirements to synchronize master data. Master Data Management (MDM) is an essential discipline to get a single, consistent view of an enterprise\’s core business entities – customers, products, suppliers, and employees. MDM solutions enable enterprise-wide master data synchronization. Given that effective master data for any subject area requires input from multiple applications and business units, enterprise master data needs a formal management system. Business approval, business process change, and capture of master data at optimal, early points in the data lifecycle are essential to achieving true enterprise master data.
This presentation will cover the definition of Master Data Management, describe potential MDM hub architectures, outline 5 essential elements of MDM, and describe 11 real-world best practices for MDM and data governance, based on years of experience in the field.
Encrypted Data Management With Deduplication In Cloud...Angie Jorgensen
The document discusses some disadvantages of Minitrex's current data management system and proposes solutions based on customer relationship management (CRM) theories. It finds that Minitrex's data is siloed across different departments, leading to issues like duplicate customer records and a lack of a holistic view of customers. It suggests integrating CRM across departments to get a unified view of customers. It also recommends utilizing CRM software to consolidate data to improve data quality, gain insights, and better manage customer relationships. Leadership support and an integrated, holistic approach are identified as important for effective use of CRM.
DAMA Australia: How to Choose a Data Management ToolPrecisely
The explosion of data types, sources, and use cases makes it difficult to make the right decisions around the best data management tools for your organisation. Why do you need them? Who is going to use them? What is their value?
Watch this webinar on-demand to learn how to demystify the decision making process for the selection of Data Management Tools that support:
· Data governance
· Data quality
· Data modelling
· Master data management
· Database development
· And more
leewayhertz.com-AI in Master Data Management MDM Pioneering next-generation d...KristiLBurns
Master data refers to the critical, core data within an enterprise that is essential for conducting business operations and making informed decisions. This data encompasses vital information about the primary entities around which business transactions revolve and generally changes infrequently. Master data is not transactional but rather plays a key role in defining and guiding transactions.
The document discusses master data management (MDM), which aims to integrate tools, people and practices to organize an enterprise view of key business information like customers, suppliers, products, and employees. MDM seeks to consolidate common data concepts, subject that data to analysis to benefit the organization. It allows organizations to clearly define business concepts, integrate related data sets, and make the data available across the organization. The document outlines the typical technical capabilities of MDM, including a core master data hub, data integration, master data services, integration and delivery, access control, synchronization, and data governance. It provides advice for evaluating MDM software and transitioning to an MDM program.
Data Ownership:
Most companies and organizations have this notion that data governance should be taken care of ,
by the Information Technology department, because IT owns the system which stores the data.
The owner of the data is responsible for providing attributes to the data and answerable to any questions regarding data.
The people answerable to these kinds of data are generally the ones involved in defining business rules,
data cleaning and consolidation.?
Data Stewardship:?
Data stewards should be favorably those people who are familiar with the data. It is often seen that
there is need to deploy several people, to handle and correct data,
whereas a single data steward could have done the same job. Since the data being handled involves
organizational level data, it is important that there are governance rules for this process.?
If there is some certain rule in the data which causes large data volumes to fail, this rule should be fixed while data cleansing.
So it is important to take care of the amount of clean data sent to the stewards,
since we are not aware of which rules might trigger what amount of data.?
Choice of data stewards is again a difficult selection.
Data Security:?
Although the master data is data on organization level, but there is some confidentiality level linked to it.?
Not every employee has the authorization to view its aspects.
Security rules can be applied to the data.
The various departments in the organization must set different rules to the data they own.
They need to grant permissions to these rules , so that the user can view the data.
A large company can have data sourced out of many regions.
It is to be ensured that they are responsible to correct only their own data.?
Data survivorship:
There are some guidelines which are set up by data governance.
These rules can often change over hthe time according to new data sources being added.
The changes made to the data , are communicated to the organization so that data stewards and users can understand the process.
So from a data steward's point of view, it is important to apply security rules to the people who are involved
in data handling and correction. This is a result of how data governance and data security can be applied while implementing MDM.?
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3. 1 What are the different types of data available in an organization? 2 What data should constitute master data?
Data available in an organization can be classified into five types: Master data are the core elements of the business that are applied to multiple
transactions and are used to categorize, aggregate, and evaluate the
Unstructured – Data that cannot be organized into identifiable structure. E.g. transaction data. Master data is not transaction data but is almost always
emails, web pages, word processor documents etc. involved with transactional data. For example: Consider a single transaction
"John Doe sold one laser printer, product number MX0315, from Scanners &
Transactional – Data that forms the transactions processed by the operational Printers product family for $90 on 12th December 2011". Master data
systems of the enterprise, e.g. sales, trades, etc. Transactional data typically elements in this transaction are Salesperson (John Doe), Product Group
describes the activities or transactions of the business. Transactional data (Scanners & Printers), Product (Laser Printer) and Product Number
typically captures the verbs, such as sale, delivery, purchase, email, and (MX0315). It can be observed that Master data is synonymous to Dimensions
revocation. in a data warehouse.
Metadata – Data that describes the data held in the enterprise information What is Master Data Management (MDM)?
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architecture, e.g. definitions of tables and columns in the system catalog of a
database, or entities and attributes in a data model.
MDM is a set of tools, technology and processes required to create and
maintain master data. MDM ensures that an organization's critical information
Hierarchical – Stores the relationships between data such as organizational
(customers, vendors, products, employees, locations) is uniquely identified,
hierarchy, product lines etc.
accurately defined and consistently applied across that organization's
operational systems – spanning geographic, line-of-business, and application
Master – Master data are the critical nouns of a business and fall generally
silo boundaries.
into four groupings: people, things, places, and concepts. It should be the
single trusted source of data that everyone in an enterprise relies on and uses.
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4. 4 What are the key characteristics of MDM system?
CRM ERP SharePoint HR Finance
A MDM system typically enables:
Data Governance – It should provide robust security for the underlying
models, define data governance policies and procedures, and support
workflows to implement data governance policies.
Master Data
Web Services
Metadata Management – MDM system should have the ability to manage Syncronization
business & process metadata. MDM Hub
Data Repository – MDM system should have the ability to model entities, Data Quality
attributes, complex hierarchies and relationships among the entities.
Metadata Store
Data Integration – MDM system should integrate with both source and Stewards hip and
Workflow
Governance
subscribing systems, ideally in both batch and real-time modes. It should
support system of entry and system of record operations.
Entity Version Hierarchy Version
Control Control
Data Quality – MDM system should have high data quality processes
supporting standardization, de-duplication, match and merge etc.
5 What is MDM hub?
Entity Management Hierarchy Management
The MDM hub is a database with the software to manage the master data that
is stored in the database and keep it synchronized with the transactional Fig 1: MDM Hub Source: Microsoft
and/or analytical systems that use the master data. MDM hub contains tools and functions required to maintain master data.
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5. 6 What are the different architecture styles of MDM hub systems? master entity in the MDM hub, so that a significant number of MDM queries
can be satisfied directly from the hub database, and only queries that refer-
There are three basic architectures available namely Repository, Registry and ence less-common attributes have to reference the
Hybrid. application database.
Repository Model Gartner has identified four different implementation styles for MDM based on
Master data for an enterprise is stored in a single database. The repository criteria like authoring sour ce, data persistence or storage, data latency etc.
data model must include all the attributes required by all the applications that This is depicted below:
use the master data. The applications that consume, create, or maintain
master data are all modified to use the master data in the hub, instead of the
master data previously maintained in the application database. For example,
the Order Entry and CRM applications would be modified to use the same set
of customer tables in the master-data hub, instead of their own data stores. Consolidation Registry Centralized Coexistence
Author Master Data Author in Author in Hub Author anywhere
Registry Model distributed
authored in
Registry model is opposite of repository model. Master data is maintained in Operational systems
the application databases, and the MDM hub contains lists of keys that can be Systems
used to find all the related records for a particular master-data item. None of Persistence Hub stores a Hub Stores index Hub persists Persist anywhere
copy apart from of master data master data,
the master-data records is stored in the MDM hub. For example, if there are copies exist in
author
records for a particular customer in the CRM, Order Entry, and Customer Ser- edges
vice databases, the MDM hub would contain a mapping of the keys for these Hub is System Hub is System System of Refer-
Validation Hub is System
three records to a common key. of Refrence of Reference of Record ence / Record
Hybrid Model
Consumer of Downstream Operational and Upstream Upstream
As the name implies, the hybrid model includes features of both the repository Master Data Analytics and Analytical Operations Operations
and registry models. The hybrid model leaves the master-data records in the Reporting
application databases and maintains keys in the MDM hub, as the registry Data Latency Batch to real Batch to event Real time Publish / Subscribe,
model does. But it also replicates the most important attributes for each time driven event-driven
Source: Gartner
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6. 7 What are the key benefits of implementing MDM? Characteristics Datawarehouse MDM
Goal Provide analytical Create and maintain a
Organizations can achieve number of benefits including:
capabilities to analyze single, consistent version
• Improves data sharing and reuse. data across dimen- of reference data only.
• Eliminate redundant data management and integration activities. sions.
• Improve product and customer management.
• Promote consistent use of data. Data Datawarehouse MDM contains only refer-
• Reduce supplier on boarding cost. contains transactional ence data along with any
• Improved operational efficiency due to streamlining business (Facts) and Dimen- associated hierarchies or
processes and good data quality. sional data including relationships, typically
• Refined fraud prevention. any associated hierar- corresponding to dimen-
• Improved decision making. chies. sions in a data warehouse.
• Improved quality and compliance.
End user Reports and / or The touch points with
presentation / dashboards are business users revolve
8 What is the difference between data warehouse and MDM? primarily used to around data governance.
Touch points with
business users present data to end Emphasis is on maintaining
Although by definition both look similar and complement each other, they are users. data quality, governance
not. Fundamental difference between data warehouse and MDM are: and compliance.
Data Write back Data write back to A master data system can
source system is not write back data / provide
supported golden copy of data to
source system to ensure
consistency.
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7. 9 How can data warehouse systems leverage MDM? • Integration with existing applications could provide a challenge unless
common formats are defined to exchange data across disparate
Managing Dimensional table becomes easier if dimensions in a applications.
datawarehouse are modeled based on master data. Due to its design, master • Differing code sets, identifiers for master data across systems
data consists of business entities which are nothing but dimensions in provides a challenge in defining a unique identifier unless an appro
datawarehouse parlance. ETL work to load dimension data will be greatly priate global standard exists that can be adopted.
reduced if they are drawn from master data. Also, data enters MDM system • Existing business processes and timelines for creation of reference
only if all business rules were fulfilled. This ensures that dimension data is of data could be different across systems and based on the needs of
high quality in data warehouse. those systems. This could be a challenge when trying to implement a
centralized process for data governance if the MDM hub is used to
10 What are the challenges in implementing MDM? author master data as data synchronization issues could arise.
11 Do leading Vendors support MDM?
Some of the challenges in implementing MDM are given below:
• As an MDM program requires changes to existing / setting up of new Most of the well-established technology vendors are providing MDM solutions
data governance processes, there would be a challenge in gaining as part of their product and solution offerings. Some of the notable ones that
acceptance and support for the program, unless backed by a strong figure in the Gartner Magic Quadrant are given below:
Business Change program.
• An MDM program is not limited to its implementation as a one-time IBM – IBM has three products for MDM – Infosphere MDM Server, Infosphere
activity. It requires to be run as a continuous program to ensure that MDM Server for Product Information Management and Initiate Master Data
the data governance processes remain relevant and efficient with the Service. IBM has announced a convergence roadmap to integrate the prod-
passage of time and that the master data is consistently used by ucts in a phased manner, starting with Infosphere Master Data Management
existing applications and new applications. This requires a contin- v10.0.
uous commitment from management.
Informatica – Informatica acquired the former Siperian Hub and has made it
available in its portfolio as the platform for multi domain MDM.
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8. Oracle – Oracle has 3 products as part of its MDM portfolio – Oracle Fusion
Customer Hub, Oracle CDH and Oracle Siebel UCM.
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