The larger the organization, the more crucial master data management becomes -- and the more difficult. MDM encompasses processes and tools that constantly aggregate, match and consolidate data from various systems in order to maintain one master record, thereby maximizing consistency. Mergers and acquisitions, in particular, can make maintaining MDM difficult, as can poor control over data classification schemes.
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The early pioneers of Customer Data Integration (CDI) had a primary goal – to create the most reliable customer data for the company by bringing together and resolving inconsistent, and oftentimes incomplete, customer data, which was at the time siloed in disparate applications across the... More >
Where Data Warehouses End and Master Data Management Begins
Last week, Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , told our Loraine Lawson why master data management transcends the data warehouse and its staff . This week, Levy explains the architecture of data integration and more about master... More >
Why MDM Transcends the Data Warehouse – and Its Staff
Loraine Lawson spoke with Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , about why data warehouses aren't the place to start multipurpose integration projects, aka master data management, and why application developers tend to... More >
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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
Talend Acquisition to Make MDM Open Source
Data-integration specialist Talend is buying assets for master data management from French vendor Amalto and will make them open source, reports InformationWeek . It professes that it will be the first open source option for master data management. The free version will be offered under the GNU General Public... More >
IBM Acquires Exeros
IBM has bought the software assets of Exeros, which are designed to find hidden relationships in databases , reports Network World . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It will join the Cognos tools in Big Blue's business analytics consulting division. The software automates the search for relationships, such... More >
Oracle Data Cleansing Server Improves Data Quality
Oracle is partnering with Silver Creek Systems to launch a data cleansing server . According to Intelligent Enterprise , the server will use Silver Creek's patented DataLens technology, which will allow for standardization, validation and matching of most incoming product information. Then the information is loaded... More >
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