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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
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 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
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
Case studies
Connecting human services across the state of North Dakota
North Dakota Department of Human Services (DHS)
Last updated: 08 Feb 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
BNP Paribas ... Providing customers with personalized offers through any channel
BNP Paribas automatically adjusts product offers and fees based on customers’ profiles and delivers customized services on demand when it implements a master data management initiative based on IBM Software
Last updated: 21 Dec 2010
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
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 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
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
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
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
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