The Pillars of Master Data Management: Data Profiling, Data Integration and Data Quality

by David Loshin

As organizations increasingly focus on master data integration, their reliance on readily available technologies, couched within an enterprise governance framework, will continue to drive analytic and operational productivity improvement.

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Case Studies

• Sterling Commerce
  To analyze access, processes, rules and standards, and authority, Sterling Commerce employed data profiling and data quality tools to assess and describe the condition of the data so business users could draft successful business rules.
• Intrawest
  Intrawest required a customer data integration (CDI) solution that could facilitate the collection and consolidation of data into a core repository model and the resolution of customer identitie into a unique set for analysis.
• A Worldwide Property, Casualty and Specialty Insurance Company
  As a result of the procurement analysis process, it became apparent that the SSA-Name3 product from Identity Systems was the most suitable product to meet this insurance company’s search, match and indexing needs.
• Sutter Health
  While many hospitals do not invest the requisite amount of effort in dealing with duplicate patient information, Sutter has created a central reconciliation group that delineates the roles and responsibilities associated with information quality.
• Olmsted Medical Center
  After a review of data profiling products, it was determined that the Data Profiler from Pervasive met Olmsted Medical Center’s needs for both the data quality assessment and the validation of data quality rules
• Avnet Electronics Marketing
  Avnet management initiated a master data integration program to manage the quality of parts data and introduce semantic integration to better absorb and categorize product data from both supplier catalogs and customer requests for quotations.
• LexisNexis
  The Siperian MDM Hub solution has allowed LexisNexis to significantly increase the ability to match customer records, leading to improved data reliability.

Vendor Solutions

• Business Objects
• DataFlux
• Identity Systems
• Initiate Systems
• Pervasive
• Silver Creek Systems
• Siperian Master Data Management Solution

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