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January 30, 2007

Identity Management and MDM

With the growth of interest in master data management solutions and customer data integration, there is an underlying theme associated with associating the many representations of an individual entity with a unique identifier. Ultimately, this begins to look like an identity management scenario, in which a single key is used to reflect a single individual, along with all of the related security, privacy, and other relevant policy matters.

What really folds into identity management? Some of it is identity resolution, and good searching and matching technology for identity resolution is of critical importance to MDM. Witness this announcement by Siperian and Identity Systems.

  Posted by David Loshin at 6:52 AM | | Comments (0)


January 23, 2007

Upcoming Events - Meet me in Boston

I will be attending the DAMA/Meta Data Conference in Boston during the Week of March 4, 2007. If you are interested in meeting, talking about data quality or master data management, or just schmoozing, let me know at loshin@knowledge-integrity.com and we'll arrange a time to meet!

  Posted by David Loshin at 9:12 AM | | Comments (0)