IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server

Through multiform MDM features, IBM® InfoSphere™ Master Data Management Server provides tangible benefits to clients that span industries such as financial services, insurance, automotive, industrial, electronics, retail, healthcare, government, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, energy and utilities, media and entertainment, telecommunications, travel, and transportation. IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server can help derive business benefit and value in areas such as increased revenue generation, cost reduction, and compliance.

• Manage multiple data domains and relationships to garner enhanced customer service, greater understanding of trading partner relationships for negotiation, and reduced system integration costs.

• Meet unique customer requirements for flexibility via configurable MDM data model and business services.

• Improve customer care processes via better understanding of customers, relationships, accounts, preferences, and so on.

• Improve know-your-customer compliance processing via event-based know-your-customer compliance management (track compliance data and reverification processes on client data).

• Enable product bundling and cross-selling capabilities via operational product and account services to sell and service bundled product packages. (IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server is the system of record for product bundle rules.)

• Create new data governance processes based on IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server data stewardship and governance processing capabilities for centralized control of data management.

• Improve time to value for merger and acquisition initiatives and other integration efforts, leveraging the service-oriented architecture (SOA) open standards design of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server.

• Unlock the value of legacy systems and existing applications through the supply of accurate, timely, and complete master data operationalized via business services.

• Reduce time and IT effort involved in adding new channels and offerings with a single point of integration for customer, product, and account information.

InfoSphere Master Data Management Server software is now available for use with Linux on IBM’s System Z™, allowing companies to centrally manage customer, product, and account data for use enterprise-wide in an IBM mainframe environment. InfoSphere MDM on System Z™, offers organizations:

• The full InfoSphere MDM Server v 8.0. functionality available including code base and data.

• The ability to transition their mainframe to an end-to-end data management platform with the highest levels of performance and security.