Master Data Management and the CIO's Strategic Plan from IT Business Edge

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Master Data Management and the CIO's Strategic Plan Additional Content from IT Business Edge Loraine Lawson spoke with David Loshin, president of the Washington, D.C.-based BI consultancy, Knowledge Integrity, and the author of Master Data Management, a book on MDM published by the MK/OMG Press, about how IT leaders separate out the marketing hype from what's really possible and pertinent about master data and managing it. Lawson: I've seen different definitions of master data, so my first How to Sell a Data Warehouse question is: What is master data and can the definition differ? to Upper Management Loshin: There have been many definitions proposed out in the general This checklist contains the key literature, and I have always been careful to say that I am providing a points you should highlight when "description" of what I believe MDM incorporates rather than a definition. you go before any group of upper-level management to pitch Master data objects represent the core business concepts used in the a data warehousing initiative. different applications across the organization, along with their associated >> Download now! It's free metadata, attributes, definitions, roles, connections, and taxonomies, such as customers, suppliers, parts, products, locations, contact mechanisms. My description of master data management is: Master Data Management incorporates the business applications, information management methods, and data management tools to implement the policies, procedures, infrastructure that support the capture, integration, and subsequent shared use of accurate, timely, consistent and complete ROI Guide for Document unified view of master data. Management This ROI guide provides a holistic overview of the benefits There are different definitions, which I suspect are crafted by the definers and costs of implementing a to suit their own purposes. My understanding centers the common document management process. themes around unifying the semantics of replicated models and descriptions of business concepts, and the techniques for resolving the >> No cost. Learn more now! identities of entities within each business subject area. Lawson: Companies have invested in many solutions over the years that promised to deliver - without a wink at the irony - "a single version of the truth." Now, it's MDM. Frankly, if I were a CIO, I'd be hesitant to use Disaster Recovery & those words with my CFO or CEO ever again. Should CIOs believe it this Business Continuity time? Template Pack Loshin: I bristle every time I hear that phrase, so it would be hypocritical of me to suggest to a CIO or CEO that they should believe it. For the rest of the interview, click here.
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