InfoSphere® MDM is a comprehensive suite of products and capabilities that you can use to manage the master data in your organization.
The editions
InfoSphere MDM includes both transaction-oriented MDM and collaborative authoring and workflow capabilities to handle multiple domains, implementation styles, and use cases across various industries. To provide you with optimal coverage of their MDM solution requirements, InfoSphere MDM is offered in these editions:
- Enterprise Edition addresses your MDM needs with a single, comprehensive solution.
- Advanced Edition helps you to transform your organization through improved business processes and applications.
- Standard Edition delivers business value for MDM projects with a quick time to value.
- Collaborative Edition streamlines workflow activities across users who are involved in authoring and defining information.
Lifecycle of information
InfoSphere MDM is in the midst of the lifecycle of information, as shown in the following diagram:
Unified view
The following diagram shows
how InfoSphere MDM pulls
together information into a unified view across business processes,
transactional systems, and analytical systems. InfoSphere MDM addresses
key data issues such as governance, quality, and consistency. The
MDM goals are as follows:
- Manage
- To manage your data. InfoSphere MDM manages your data from source systems such as business applications, databases, and content sources.
- Govern
- To provide data stewardship tools that help ensure quality and security. Data stewardship is essential for your MDM implementation.
- Develop and integrate
- To create custom applications and business processes. Each MDM implementation has different requirements; InfoSphere MDM provides the development tools to create custom applications and business processes.
- Analyze
- To analyze your data. Business intelligence applications help you to monitor and assess your master data and how it affects your business goals.
In addition to reading these overview topics, you can learn more about the InfoSphere MDM features and technologies by reading the detailed topics in the documentation.
