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Analyst reports
The Challenge of Effective Master Data Management
This report will help you to initially think about how master data plays an important role in your company and what to do to start maximizing its use for business value.
Last updated: 29 Aug 2012
Master Data - TDWI Best Practices Report
TDWI Best Practices Reportcatalogs and discusses new user practices and technical functions for MDM, and it uses survey data to predict which MDM functions will grow most versus those that will decline—all to bring readers up to date so they can make informed decisions about the next generation of their MDM solutions.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Next Generation Master Data Management - A TDWI Best Practices Report - Executive Summary
This 6-page report helps user organizations understand all that MDM now offers, so they can successfully modernize and build up their best practices in master data management. IBM agrees and understands that an MDM journey can involve any significant change in an organization’s business or data management strategy.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
A Gartner Magic Quadrant Report - Customer Master Data
Organizations selecting an MDM of customer data solution still face challenges. Overall, functionality continues to mature, but some of the well-established vendors' messages are getting more complex. Meanwhile, less-established vendors continue to build up their credentials.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2012
Master Data - A MARKET UPDATE Analyst Report
This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Master Data Management (MDM) market. Master data is data that is shared between computer systems: data domains such as customer, product, location and asset.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2012
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data provides insight into the segment of the evolving packaged MDM solutions market that focuses on how organizations master and share a “single version of the truth” of product data with multiple views of it across the organization.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Announcement letters
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Reference Data Management Hub V10 helps you manage enterprise reference data
InfoSphere Information Server is a comprehensive information integration & governance platform that helps clients create, manage, & deliver information where it is needed in a timely manner. Includes advanced governance capabilities & robust data integration platform designed to simplify your data integration needs.
Last updated: 03 Jul 2012
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management creates trusted views of your data assets and elevates the effectiveness of your most important business processes and applications
InfoSphere Master Data Management V10 is the most complete, proven, and powerful operational MDM solution on the market and includes transaction-oriented MDM, collaborative authoring, and workflow capabilities to handle all domains, implementation styles, and use cases across all industries.
Last updated: 25 Oct 2011
Books
Master Data Management Vision & Value: Part 1 Develop an MDM Vision
Download the IBM ebook, ‘Develop an MDM Vision,’ and learn how MDM drives the success of your enterprise strategy by delivering the insight you need to make better decisions and create superior outcomes.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Master Data Management Vision & Value: Part 2 Determine the Business Value of MDM
Download the IBM ebook, ‘Determine the business value of MDM,’ and learn to build a compelling MDM business case that helps your organization achieve its goals for growth, agility, cost control and compliance.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Briefs
IBM InfoSphere: Solutions for retail
Helps create a single, trusted view of products and a single, complete view of customers, which retailers can undertake strategies that give them a competitive edge in an ever-changing market.
Last updated: 29 Aug 2012
IBM InfoSphere: Solutions for manufacturing
IBM InfoSphere Information Server enables organizations to accurately and quickly cleanse and integrate data from multiple sources. With IBM InfoSphere MDM, manufacturers can create a single, up-to-date repository of information to be used throughout the organization to drive strategic business initiatives.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
IBM InfoSphere: Solutions for healthcare
IBM InfoSphere can provide a robust foundation for data warehousing and analytics implementations by helping to improve the quality, accuracy and completeness of patient and provider information.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Enable effective eHealth initiatives: IBM Initiate Patient master person index for eHealth
Today many payers, providers and ministries of health are implementing eHealth architectures to facilitate electronic medical records. IBM’s industry-leading MPI technology accurately identifies patients and can create a connected view of the patient's extended care team.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
IBM® Information Management for US Healthcare: Building Smarter Health Information Exchanges
IBM Information Management Solutions are foundational to building smarter HIE; helping organizations to connect, collaborate and be easier to do business with.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
IBM Initiate Healthcare Solutions
This solution brief examines how IBM Initiate solutions help drive more efficiency into the systems that support your business, including clinical information sharing, provider management, electronic medical records, revenue cycle management, marketing, disease management, member management and patient access.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
IBM InfoSphere Solutions for Insurance
Creating a single view of the insurance customer with data integration and master data management. Competition is fierce in the insurance industry. With infrequent interaction between insurers and their customers, companies must maximize the value of each and every customer touch point.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2012
End-to-end Master Data Management: The business value of managing product master data
Discover how a Master Data Management (MDM) strategy is key to unlocking the value of your company’s growing data and information.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Creating Effective Information Sharing Across Agencies
To meet commerce and regulatory challenges, data accuracy, integrity and security are critical. With IBM master data management software, your agency can identify a single person, place or thing and securely share that information across jurisdictions - turning data into intelligence.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere: Solutions for telecommunications
IBM Information Management Solutions are foundational to building smarter HIE; helping organizations to connect, collaborate and be easier to do business with.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2012
IBM Initiate Master Data Service
IBM Initiate Master Data Service is a trusted and complete master data management (MDM) solution that unlocks the value of enterprise data assets and elevates the effectiveness of the most important business processes by delivering a trusted version of the truth to decision makers.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2012
Improve ProviderRelations Through Effective Communications
IBM Initiate Provider associates provider information across multiple source systems to create a single source of truth for provider data. Access to accurate provider data lowers operational costs, reduces compliance risk and makes health systems preferred business partners.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2012
Brochures
Detecting Insider Threat & Collusion with IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions
Learn about how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio (now called InfoSphere Identity Insight Solutions) helps organizations in all industries detect insider threat and collusion.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
The IBM Insurance Application Architecture: A blueprint for success
Learn more about a set of data, process and services models for the insurance industry which focus on solving issues in risk, regulatory compliance, claims, customer centricity and more.
Last updated: 10 Oct 2007
Case studies
DNB ASA: Centralizes reference data management for more effective governance and reduced business risk
As DNB moves from a silo-driven business and IT culture to an integrated organization, it needed to centralize management of both reference and master data. DNB ASA reduces the time and cost to support new Norwegian Industry Sector Classification requirements by working with IBM to centralize reference data.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2012
Connecting human services across the state of North Dakota
North Dakota Department of Human Services (DHS)
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
Truffaut Rationalizes management of its product catalog with IBM Master Data Management solution
Truffut, with 55 stores, 10 million buyers and revenue of €410 million offers products for gardens, pet stores and home. The wealth of its offerings places Truffaut at the head of a wealth of information, which has been much more efficiently developed and used since the implementation in early 2010 of IBM® InfoSphere
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
"MoneyGram International Detects and prevents money transfer fraud before itimpacts customers"
Learn how MoneyGram International leveraged IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight as part of its comprehensive fraud prevention program, saving over $37 million and reducing customer fraud complaints by 72%
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
BNP Paribas Providing customers with personalized offers throughany channel
For French banking giant BNP Paribas, customization was key to gain profits and loyalty. The bank deployed IBMs’ new MDM technology to give each client customized offers and remain agile to changing market conditions
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Irish Life & Permanent unlocks the value of customer data through master data management
Customer information duplicated in and spread across a variety of systems and groups made it difficult for staff to understand and respond to customer needs.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Rabobank gains a single view of customers: Rabobank improves data quality and supports compliance with a centralized customer records solution from IBM
Rabobank improves data quality and supports compliance with a centralized customer records solution from IBM.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
London Borough of Brent puts customer first, increasing customer satisfaction and improving operational efficiencies
Learn how London Borough of Brent deployed IBM software to develop a Client Index that was non-invasive to Brent’s existing system.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
Integrating data from multiple, previously siloed sources for smarter marketing that limits internal conflict among brands and cuts costs
Learn how financial services giant Suncorp-Metway leveraged IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management as part of an overall solution to increase market share without increasing marketing spend
Last updated: 23 Jul 2011
"Bouygues Telecom Improving fraud detection with entity analytics"
Bouygues Telecom used an analysis platform based on IBM®InfoSphere™ Identity Insight software to help it proactively uncover online and in-store fraud by consumers, dealers and organized crime groups, and prevent the subsequent loss of products and revenue
Last updated: 01 Jul 2011
Data sheets
IBM Initiate Patient
IBM Initiate Patient gives HIE participants the ability to search for patients across all participant applications, locate patient records across patient domains and scale to support evolving information sharing requirements and an increasing number of participants.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
IBM® Initiate® Provider Direct: Increase efficiencies and power timely and accurate information sharing across providers
IBM Initiate Provider Direct enhances IBM Initiate Provider enabling organization-wide access to data about physicians, care organizations, nurses and other care providers to support more collaborative interactions.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
IBM Initiate: Provider Knowing your providers is foundational to smarter healthcare
IBM Initiate Provider creates a master virtual repository of provider information by integrating with trusted data sources, from internal systems like radiology or credentialing, and third party reference data sources.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
IBM Initiate Exchange: Enabling Private Health Information Exchange
IBM Initiate Exchange’s remote delivery mechanism, proven capability to integrate with a wide variety of EMRs, and it provides an end-to-end solution that can overcome the challenges of integrating with the typically unsophisticated nature of a physician practice IT environment.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
IBM Industry Models Quick Start Offering
The Industry Models Quick Start offering is a rapid, fast paced, mentoring program intended to get customers up and running, trained, and into a position to sustain themselves on a particular industry sector model as quickly as possible.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
InfoSphere Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau Offering
The Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau (VS IAB) offering was designed to analyze, validate, and verify source system data before it is used in information management implementations, to ensure accuracy and mitigate the risks associated with poor-quality data.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Transform customer care to gain competitive advantage in a convergent communications market
IBM customer care offerings provide communication companies with a comprehensive and systematic method for developing and sharing customer insight regardless of system or application, helping you maximize service and sales efforts.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2007
Demos
Visualize Your MDM Solution Using IBM InfoSphere Blueprint Director
This short video demonstrates how to use InfoSphere Blueprint Director (packaged with MDM version 10) to visualize an InfoSphere MDM deployment with its built-in MDM templates.
Last updated: 20 Jun 2012
Information centers
IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management Information Center
This information center includes product information for IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management Information Center
Last updated: 24 Oct 2011
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management information center
This information center includes product information for IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management for Product Information Management.
Last updated: 26 Mar 2010
White papers
Advanced global name recognition technology
This paper highlights the issues, requirements and technologies available for automated advanced name recognition.
Last updated: 29 Aug 2012
Provider Registries: Reduce Health System Costs Increase Efficiencies Improve Care
It provides an overview of the value of managing provider data, describes individual and organizational level provider registries, gives details on what to look for when implementing a provider registry, profiles some organizations using provider registries, and presents an overview of the IBM® Initiate® Provider solution.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2012
The Case For Data Profiling
Learn compelling reasons for why data profiling is a critical activity that should take place in the IT enterprise. Learn about reactive vs proactive data quality and the critical importance of Metadata as well as data profiling -why it's important and the steps it involves.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
Accurate Patient Identification: A Foundation for e-Health Initiatives - an Asia Pacific Perspective
This white paper will describe of the value of providing access to complete patient information at the point of care is critical to the success of any eHealth program.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management
In an April 2011 study, commissioned by IBM, Forrester Consulting describes Master Data Management (MDM) as a ‘critical business capability and technology foundation.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
More Big Changes Ahead in Healthcare – Is Your House in Order?
IBM Initiate solutions can help organizations benefit today without having to worry about replacing their investments in the future once regulations or requirements have been finalized.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
New Mexico Health Information Collaborative: Expands HIE Statewide Sets Standard for Strategic & Operational Plans
Using IBM® Initiate® Patient, NMHIC is creating unified views of patients across multiple disparate systems to expand its patient-centric Health Information Exchange (HIE) and has set an example for other states.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2012
How Master Data Management Serves the Business?
MDM offers the single, comprehensive and consistent view of the business that decision makers in all industries commonly seek. There are three major approaches to put master data to work. Download this informative whitepaper to learn how leading enterprises leverage the power and flexibility of MDM to drive business results
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Mastering Information Portfolio for Government: IBM InfoSphere software for trusted information
This paper will discuss the challenges that government organizations face in managing information that must be resolved, shared and trusted in order to address the broad and vital requirements of government.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
Preventing fraud with identity & social network analysis - A guide for Bank Executives
Download this informative whitepaper to learn how banks and financial services organizations can leverage IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight to prevent costly incidents of fraud and support compliance with 'Know your Customer' and other industry regulations.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2012
How Master Data Management Serves the Business
Download this informative whitepaper to learn how leading enterprises leverage the power and flexibility of MDM to drive business results.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
MDM-Powered Solutions for Salesforce: CRM Customer data you can trust for sales and marketing success
This paper will discuss the challenges that Salesforce.com users face in managing customer and prospect information and explore the benefits of an MDM-powered solution for Salesforce CRM.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
Seven Characteristics of MDM Business Services: How to Spot the Real Thing When Evaluating Master Data Management Systems
This paper defines the key characteristics of effective MDM business services, explains why they are essential to a cost-effective approach, and illustrates how the MDM Business Services Library from IBM InfoSphere offers critical capabilities for successful MDM strategies.
Last updated: 13 Jul 2011
Preventing fraud with identity & social network analysis - A guide for Bank Executives
Download this informative whitepaper to learn how banks and financial services organizations can leverage IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight to prevent costly incidents of fraud and support compliance with 'Know your Customer' and other industry regulations.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2011
Preventing fraud with identity & social network analysis - A guide for Bank Executives
Download this informative whitepaper to learn how banks and financial services organizations can leverage IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight to prevent costly incidents of fraud and support compliance with 'Know your Customer' and other industry regulations
Last updated: 13 Jun 2011
How Master Data Management Serves the Business
MDM offers the single and comprehensive view of the business that decision makers commonly seek. There are three major approaches that leading organizations use: consolidating information from disparate silos; sharing key data elements privately & enabling collaborative authoring of information across business channels
Last updated: 01 Jun 2011
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management version 90
Designed to achieve and maintain a single version of truth across the enterprise and establish a single repository for products and services that can be used to address strategic business initiatives throughout an organization.
Last updated: 06 Oct 2010
IBM Initiate Master Data Service: A Platform for Master Data Management to Help You Know and Trust Your Data
Truly knowing – and trusting – your data empowers you to achieve an array of initiatives. IBM Initiate Master Data Service enables enterprise-wide master data management (MDM) with several advantages.
Last updated: 30 May 2010
Master Information Management: Enhanced MDM with content and analytics for a uniquely complete version of the truth
Learn how to understand and control information strategically, turn data assets into business assets and help enable the right people in the organization to access the right information at the right time.
Last updated: 11 Mar 2010
Turn traceability into visibility: Solve complex supply chain challenges through intelligent business event management
Supply chains today are complex and organizations are faced with business challenges as well as protecting consumers. By turning traceability into visibility supply chain executives can leverage their investment to ensure a safer, more efficient supply chain.
Last updated: 26 Sep 2009
Fight Fraud, Reduce Risk, and Streamline Compliance: IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions for Financial Services Organizations
This brochure highlights how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio (now called InfoSphere Identity Analytics Solutions)can help financial institutions gain a complete understanding of their customers, employees, vendors, external threats, as well as their interactions with them.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions for State and Local Government
Learn about how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio (now called IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight Solutions) helps state and local government solve some of the most pressing issues today by building a complete understanding of your citizens.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
Enhanced MDM with content and analytics for a uniquely complete version of the truth
Enhanced MDM with content and analytics for a uniquely complete version of the truth
Last updated: 01 Aug 2008
IBM Master Data Management strategy: Leveraging critical data to accomplish strategic business objectives (PDF, 679KB)
This white paper provides an overview of IBM's Master Data Management strategy including use case scenarios for its MDM products, InfoSphere MDM Server and InfoSphere MDM Server for PIM.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2008
Using Data Models to Maximize the Value of Your Data Warehouse
Read impressive results from a survey of IBM Industry Data Model users by Hurwitz & Associates.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2007
IBM Process and Service Models for the financial services industries
The IBM industry process and service models help banking, insurance and financial markets companies develop corporate standards that business and IT can use to implement key strategic business initiatives faster and more reliably.
Last updated: 10 Oct 2007
A proactive approach to Medicaid fraud, abuse and error detection IBM Fraud Intelligence Solutions
This white paper describes the challenges and trends facing Medicaid organizations. Learn how IBM Fraud Intelligence Solutions (FIS) offers a proactive approach to help reduce fraud, abuse and error.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2007
