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Justifying and Implementing Master Data Management

The latest buzzword in information management - and by extension, business intelligence (BI) - is master data management (MDM). You may hear this phrase and stated goal of creating a single version of the truth and wonder, "Haven't we been here before?" or, "We already do that in the data warehouse, right?" You may be correct on both counts. MDM has become hot due to the perfect storm of:

The continued struggle organizations face in managing their master data,
The need to master the data in the operational environment, and
Vendor momentum with service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based software designed to systemize the rough spots.

For the rest of this feature article I wrote for the latest DM Review, please see www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1051165. Feel free to comment on it here.

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