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Analyst reports 

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


Gartner Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2Q07

In its Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management Software, Gartner positioned IBM as a "Challenger" for its WebSphere Product Center 5.3.2 software. IBM believes WebSphere Product Center has helped position the company as a "Challenger" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and as a leader with its ability to execute.

Last updated: 21 Jun 2007

Announcement letters 

IBM Initiate Master Data Service V9.7 offers a master data management platform to help you know and trust your data

a virtual master registry designed to assemble a single view of master data and its relationships across existing systems.

Last updated: 04 Dec 2011


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


IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product

Builds on functionality delivered in Version 9.0 to support extensive features that help you author collaboratively, aggregate, and enrich the product information.

Last updated: 01 Mar 2011


IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server V9.0.2 helps organizations create a single view of trusted information

Manages master data for business processes and applications across an enterprise to help ensure that critical data is consistent, complete, and accurate.

Last updated: 25 Jan 2011


IBM Initiate Master Data Service V9.5 offers a platform for master data management to help you know and trust your data

IBM Initiate Master Data Service is a virtual master registry designed to assemble a single view of master data and their relationships from across existing systems

Last updated: 05 Oct 2010


IBM InfoSphere Global Name Recognition V4.2 is designed to deliver enhanced business name searches, faster time to value, and enhanced personal name analysis and searching capabilities

InfoSphere Global Name Recognition delivers an innovative suite of name-analysis and name-matching technologies designed to address the specific needs and demands of managing, searching, scoring, and matching multicultural name data sets.

Last updated: 14 Sep 2010

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


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 portion of the packaged MDM solution that focuses on managing product data. It positions technology providers on the basis of their completeness of vision relative to the market and their ability to execute on that vision.

Last updated: 09 Sep 2009

Briefs 

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


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

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


IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server Technical Overview

Learn about the technical approach to Master Data Management including three usage styles: operational, collaborative and analytical MDM.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2008


New Industry Models Version 8.0: Enhanced Industry Content

Learn more about version 8.0 of the Industry Models which contain enhanced industry content captured for our installed base of over 400 clients.

Last updated: 10 Oct 2007


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


IBM Multiform Master Data Management Business Overview

Learn about the business issues Master Data Management solves as well as the value that MDM generates for the business.

Last updated: 26 Sep 2007

Case studies 

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 InfoSphere Traceability Server, V2.5

IBM InfoSphere™ Traceability Server enables enterprises to capture, manage, and share track and trace information about products and assets for real-time analysis and decision making. It helps companies optimize their critical business and supply chain processes and thereby gain competitive advantage.

Last updated: 28 Feb 2012


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


Rapid Deployment Package for Master Data Management Services Offering

This services offering combines pre-integration of InfoSphere software with a prescriptive implementation approach to significantly reduce the cost of MDM implementations as well as reducing overall risk. 

Last updated: 30 Dec 2008


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 

Harnessing More Value from your Master Data: An Introduction to Multiform Master Data Management by IBM

Watch a high-level conceptual introduction of IBM's Multiform Master Data Management.

Last updated: 20 Sep 2007

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 

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


Achieving Global Customer Visibility

Companies can achieve global customer visibility with an MDM solution that considers customer contacts within organizations as well as organizations within hierarchies. This paper discusses developing strategic customer initiatives and the emergence of organizational hierarchy management.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


Achieving Meaningful Use of Healthcare Information Technology

This paper provides an overview of the barriers to meaningful use and how a patient registry provides the infrastructure necessary to share and use clinically relevant patient information in a meaningful way across the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) environment.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


Customer Care Solutions for the Communications Industry - Driving Business Value with Master Data Solutions

This whitepaper provides an overview of master data management concepts and business challenges relevant to Telecommunications providers. Focusing specifically on the issues of providing differentiated customer care in an increasingly challenging market, this paper gives an overview of IBM's Master Information Solutions.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight for Fraud and Threat Detection

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight is a real-time, scalable entity resolution and analysis platform for fighting threat and fraud.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


Laying a Foundation for True Patient Intelligence

Healthcare organizations seek to link fragmented patient and provider data across databases. An enterprise master person index (EMPI) plays a key role in this process, as do data governance policies and programs.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


Managing a Global Identifier Across the Enterprise

When critical customer data is spread across data sources without a common identifier, organizations must find a way to unify it. Master data management (MDM) increasingly bridges the gap, with many organizations leveraging a global identifier.

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


Technology Requirements for a Successful Master Data Exchange

A master data exchange enables organizations to share information for mutual benefit. This paper details the functionality needed for a successful multi-party, information-sharing solution, comparing the most common architecture models: centralized, peer-to-peer and hybrid.

Last updated: 08 Feb 2012


A Journey to Adaptive MDM: What is Master Data? Why is it Important?

This whitepaper describes the ongoing evolution of our MDM clients' business needs and illustrates how IBM's MDM solutions address those needs.

Last updated: 13 Jan 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


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: 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


Connecting the Dots with Entity Resolution

Entity resolution finds and validates key patterns and connections by integrating millions of records to discover relationships, alert the right people and provide a means to visualize and dissect the data. This enables law enforcement and counter terrorism analysts to uncover threats.

Last updated: 11 Nov 2010


IBM Initiate Master Data Service

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 high volume matching and linking via high performance data processing and scalable infrastructures.

Last updated: 11 Nov 2010


Master Data Management and Accurate Data Matching

This paper examines the different components of a successful Master data management (MDM) solution, including candidate selection, comparison functions, scoring and thresholds. This discussion also offers guidance on overcoming roadblocks and evaluating data matching and linking solutions.

Last updated: 11 Nov 2010


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


Threat and Fraud Prevention with IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight

In this paper, we will examine the challenges that organizations face related to making sense of information in order to revolutionize their ability to mitigate threat and fraud.

Last updated: 01 Sep 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


Is Soundex Good Enough for You? The Hidden Risks of Soundex-Based Name Searching

This whitepaper provides an excellent introduction into Soundex - what is it, what does it offer as well as its limitations in the area of name matching. Patented in 1918, Soundex-based technologies are prevalent in global applications that search for names.

Last updated: 01 Sep 2007


IBM XYZ Framework for retailers, Best practices for a strategic master data management solution

The IBM XYZ Framework for retailers provides best-practices recommendations to help optimize downstream systems and address business challenges with a single, reliable repository of product information.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007


Product Information Management for e-commerce

Learn how implementing a PIM solution for e-commerce can help manage product information by improving business processes, consolidating existing information, reducing IT personnel dependency and eliminating the need to maintain product information in multiple applications.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007

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