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Master Data Management Strategy Quips

I was recently posed a good set of questions by Dan Lindstedt on MDM. I thought I’d share my quippy answers with you.

- Where do you ‘master’ the master data? Strategy: MDM hub feeding operational systems and the DW
- How do you model master data? Strategy: Like a dimensional model’s dimensions; hierarchical
- What master data do you distribute? Strategy: Break all master data into ‘subject areas’ and distribute full subject areas (changed data only)
- Does 3rd party data constitute master data? Strategy: Absolutely. If it’s not transactional and it helps to explain the subject, it’s master data.
- What style of MDM should we use? Strategy: It depends, but usually a hub has had the best value proposition so far.
- Use a tool or do homemade MDM? Strategy: It depends, but usually should be a more later-stage decision than it usually is

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