IBM® InfoSphere® MDM Reference Data Management
Hub solution provides a single point of management and governance
for enterprise reference data.
InfoSphere MDM
Reference Data Management Hub provides centralized management, stewardship,
and distribution of enterprise reference data. It supports defining
and managing reference data as an enterprise standard. It also supports
maintaining mappings between the different application-specific representations
of reference data that are used within the enterprise. InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management
Hub supports formal governance of reference data:
- Putting management of the reference data in the hands of the business
users
- Reducing the burden on IT
- Improving the overall quality of data that is used across the
organization
Key functions of InfoSphere MDM
Reference Data Management Hub are as follows:
- Role-based user interface with security and access control
- Management of reference data sets and values
- Management of mappings between reference data sets
- Import and export of reference data by using CSV and XML formats
- Versioning support for reference data sets and maps
- Change process that is controlled through configurable lifecycle
management
- Hierarchy management over sets of reference data
InfoSphere MDM
Reference Data Management Hub also integrates with and complements IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary and the broader
portfolio of IBM Information
Management products.
Definition of reference data
Reference
data is any data that is used to categorize other data within
the enterprise. Reference data is commonly stored in the form of code
tables or lookup tables, such as country codes, state codes, and gender
codes. Reference data is used within every enterprise application,
from backend systems through front-end commerce applications to the
data warehouse. Business users recognize reference data as code choices
within the pick-lists of their business application user interfaces.
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management, Version 11.3