Master Data Management (MDM): to better handle and share business repositories

Why Master Data Management (MDM)?

User repositories, users, suppliers, products, organisations, etc. Until now, these structures were installed and then maintained using IT during large business Information System transformation projects (CRM, ERP, Data Warehouse, e-Business, etc.).

Master Data Management (MDM) provides new tools to deal with this problem, through the generation of a service that is shared by the various company entities and Information System applications.

Business Rules Management, for its part, references and manages business rules that govern data and processes in a cross-functional way in the Information System.

MDM benefits

Master Data Management benefits:

• Repositories consolidation, pooling that helps reduce global costs
• Early detection of quality shortfalls, appropriation of reference data by users and common vocabulary. At a time where an increasing number of regulations demand that companies be accountable for their decisions, quality control is no longer a mere option, but an obligation.
• Value creation, competitive advantage, responsiveness to marketing offerings, customer service quality

The Business & Decision MDM offering

Business & Decision has developed information management expertise over several years. Creation of data warehouses, metadata management, data quality, etc.

The advent of the Master Data Management market has given Business & Decision's MDM practice the opportunity to sharpen this expertise and dedicate it to this sector. With the market’s main players, generalists (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP) as well as specialists (SAS/Dataflux, Orchestra Networks, etc.), Business & Decision successfully supports companies during their shared repositories projects.

By adapting these concepts and tools to the specifics of each business sector and to each repository type (analytics, transactional, supplier, customer, product, organisation, etc.), Business & Decision is the ideal partner to help customers solve their business challenges through the application of MDM and BRM.

In fact, Business & Decision has unique expertise with regards to the installation of data governance programmes.