DataFlux

I was reviewing some material I had written about 1 1/2 years ago on MDM and it struck me that I have gone through some revisions on my opinions regarding the definition of master data. At first my perception was that master data, by definition, should be extracted from its numerous source systems and consolidated into its own data repository, to be accessed by downstream applications. - Read the rest of this entry »

I had a conversation recently with a client that yet again confirmed my developing notions surrounding the relationship between business policies and data governance. The discussion focused on how defined business policies relate to information policies, which in turn are composed of data rules that can be monitored and their compliance measured. - Read the rest of this entry »

Going back to my earlier blogs on shared business vocabulary for common data names and data definitions I suggested then that master data should be defined using these enterprise wide data names and data definitions. Also if you plan on building an MDM system yourself you need to build a data model for master data entities using master data definitions. - Read the rest of this entry »

There seems to be a lot of debate around about data governance and MDM, return on investment on MDM etc. going on at present. However the discussion is still a data oriented and IT oriented one with several of my clients still asking for help on MDM business cases at present. So I thought I would look at what MDM could potentially do for an enterprise and see if it implementing MDM might have wider implications. I was amazed at how long my list of what MDM could potentially integrate with started to get. - Read the rest of this entry »