Master Data Management

What’s New in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management V10.1

Advanced master data governance, more powerful information consumption and expanded core MDM capabilities

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management V10.1 is the most complete, proven and powerful operational Master Data Management (MDM) solution on the market, including both transaction-oriented MDM and collaborative authoring and workflow capabilities to handle all domains, implementation styles, and use cases across all industries.

Building on the unified packaging introduced with IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management V10.0, V10.1 contains significant enhancements that include:

Master Data Governance

• Master Data Policy Administration – Defines and creates master data policies to ensure trusted data quality for consumers of master data
• Master Data Policy Monitoring – Provides reports and dashboards to track the uniqueness and completeness of the golden record and measures the consistency between the data sources and the golden record
• Master Data Policy Enforcement – Ensures noncompliant data is remediated; critical data changes are reviewed and approved; and master data is appropriately matched, linked, and collapsed
• Business Process Management (BPM) integration capabilities and sample workflows – Straightforward mechanisms for creating processes (workflows) that govern data steward-oriented and other tasks.

Master Data Management

• Enhanced probabilistic matching and searching – Probabilistic capabilities are expanded to include probabilistic search technology and use of the latest probabilistic matching engine.
• Advanced Business Rules through ODM Integration: Enables business users to leverage a single interface for product creation, rules authoring, and rules association through an integrated solution with IBM Operational Decision Manager. Helps drive product personalization, advanced bundling and configuration, complex offers, and more.
• Advanced Catalog Management - Enables advanced capabilities for managing eCommerce catalogs supported by WebSphere Commerce through an accelerated solution with a data model, business process workflows, and integration components tailored for WebSphere Commerce.

Master data management resources

• Use case comparison (PDF, 179KB)
• Transforming business processes and information by aligning BPM and MDM
• Enhance business performance and data quality with process oriented Master Data Stewardship and Governance

Gartner Magic Quadrants

• MDM of Customer Data
• MDM of Product Data

Aberdeen Vodcasts

• The Role of Master Data for Customer Experience Management
• Master Data Management in the Cloud
• Enhancing the Product Lifecycle with Master Data

Master Data Management for Big Data

Together big data and MDM can help extract insight from the increasing volume, velocity, variety, and decreasing veracity of data, in context, beyond what was previously possible.

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