Master Data Management: Creating a Single View of the Business
This report on master data management (MDM) clarifies the disparate definitions, architectures and technologies and sets forth a concise, easily understood architecture for MDM.
"The whole is more than the sum of the parts."
Aristotle
This statement by Aristotle sums up the philosophy behind master data management or MDM quite nicely. MDM is about studying, cataloging, and accessing critical sets of data in your enterprise. That is, it means understanding everything you possibly can about your customers, products, locations, and other major subject areas. In this research paper, MDM is...
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Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is the President of Intelligent Solutions, a leading consultancy on data warehousing and business intelligence technologies and strategies, and the Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust. Dr. Imhoff is a popular speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytics, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives. She has co-authored five books and more than 100 articles on these topics and has a popular blog at www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/imhoff/. She may be reached at CImhoff@IntelSols.com.
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Colin White is the founder of BI Research and president of DataBase Associates Inc. As an analyst, educator and writer, he is well known for his in-depth knowledge of data management, information integration, and business intelligence technologies and how they can be used for building the smart and agile business. With many years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. Colin has written numerous articles and papers on deploying new and evolving information technologies for business benefit and is a regular contributor to several leading print- and web-based industry journals. For ten years he was the conference chair of the Shared Insights Portals, Content Management, and Collaboration conference. He was also the conference director of the DB/EXPO trade show and conference.
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