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Master Data Management

TDWI's Technology Poster

Master Data Management

TDWI proudly presents its 2008 technology poster.
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TDWI's Master Data Management poster sorts out the complex layers of the MDM stack, illustrating how people, practices, and software automation are coordinated in a mature MDM implementation. Learn how this technology problem is solved through organizational structures that encourage collaboration. Whether you are just beginning a master data initiative or are in a mature MDM environment, this poster will help you master the complexities of MDM.

Master data management (MDM) software solutions are complex in terms of the available architectural options and how these relate to end-user requirements and preexisting systems. According to TDWI Research, most MDM solutions are homegrown and require five tools or platforms, usually from multiple vendors. These tools include database management systems, data integration platforms, metadata management repositories, data modeling tools, and so on. An MDM solution also must integrate with a variety of operational applications, and a few vendors offer dedicated MDM applications. The dizzying array of options is itself a barrier to action. To help technical users clear the barrier, this poster illustrates how various tools and architectures come together in a technology stack for MDM.

This poster will help explain:

  • The tools, technologies, and techniques that go into the MDM technology stack.
  • How the tech stack adjusts to practices like operational MDM and analytic MDM.
  • How the MDM technology stack is influenced by pre-existing systems, architectural approaches, growth over time, and build-versus-buy decisions.

 

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TDWI's technology poster is provided to you free of charge thanks to the following sponsors:

  • Baseline Consulting
  • BizGui Inc.
  • EasyAsk
  • Exeros
  • MicroStrategy
  • Syncsort
  • Talend

  • Baseline Consulting

    Baseline Consulting, an acknowledged leader in the data integration and business analytics industry, helps large and midsize businesses enhance the value of enterprise data, improve business results, and achieve self-sufficiency in managing and using data as a corporate asset. Baseline offers business consulting and technical implementation services in four practice areas: business analytics, data warehousing, data integration, and data governance. In addition to packaged assessment and scorecard services, Baseline delivers systems integration services for the Fortune 500 and beyond. Baseline changes how companies manage information. Please contact us at 818.906.7638 or at marketing@baseline-consulting.com.

    www.baseline-consulting.com


    BizGui Inc.

    BizGui is a provider of master data management software and consulting services for data warehousing and performance management solutions. Located in Irvine, California, BizGui is a pioneer in employing new-generation Web technologies for solving data management challenges.

    BizGui's Dimension Data Manager (DDM) software allows organizations to create cost-effective and secure Web forms for data owners to safely update and process key business data. DDM is fast to implement, requires no programming, is easy to maintain, and reduces the total cost of ownership.

    Our network of business consulting partners provides our customers with world-class MDM software and consulting solutions.

    www.bizgui.com


    EasyAsk

    Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate, and manage business applications.

    EasyAsk, a division of Progress Software, is focused on delivering powerful, easy-to-use software for information discovery and analysis. Industry leaders use Progress EasyAsk for Operational BI to remove the complexities of business intelligence and unlock its potential to the masses. EasyAsk is specifically designed to give authorized business users within and beyond the enterprise the independence to easily query, analyze, and share data to drive better business decisions.

    www.easyask.com


    Exeros

    Exeros delivers the most advanced solutions for discovering, validating, and remediating cross-system business rules, data lineage, hidden sensitive data, and unknown data inconsistencies buried across the distributed corporate data landscape.

    Exeros Discovery™ automates the discovery of business rules, transformations, and data inconsistencies across structured data sources. Using Discovery pays off in lower risk and costs, faster deployment, and greater accuracy for any data management project.

    Exeros Validator™ provides a complete platform for ongoing identification and remediation of exceptions and inconsistencies within and between distributed data sources by monitoring business rules over time—both within and between data sources.

    www.exeros.com


    MicroStrategy

    MicroStrategy is the leading independent provider of open systems business intelligence software. Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability.

    With more than 15 years of industry experience, thousands of customer successes, and a reputation for innovation and leadership, MicroStrategy is the clear choice for your business intelligence investment. More information about MicroStrategy is available at www.microstrategy.com/bisolutions.

    www.microstrategy.com/bisolutions


    Syncsort

    Syncsort DMExpress consistently proves to be the fastest, most reliable and cost efficient enterprise Data Integration software. Running on Windows, Unix, or Lynux, DMExpress replaces long-running processes and speeds large-volume applications. It delivers increased performance to mission-critical tasks, such as ETL, data warehousing, data mining, Web log processing, business intelligence, and legacy migration. It also provides high-speed changed data capture; data cleansing, validation, and conversion; pivots and normalization; multilevel hierarchical aggregation; and multiple sources and targets. At half the cost and twice the speed, DMExpress delivers information that business users need when they need it.

    www.syncsort.com


    Talend

    Talend is the first provider of open source data integration and data quality software. After intense research and development investment, and with financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio.

    Talend's solutions are used primarily for MDM and CDI, as well as integration between operational systems, ETL for business intelligence and data warehousing, and migration.

    Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend makes data integration solutions available to organizations of all sizes and for all integration needs.

    www.talend.com


    tdwi Partners
    CONNECT

    CONNECT delivers customized methodology, tool, and people solutions to address business, technical, data, and organizational challenges in Business Intelligence.