Platform and core feature overview

IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management (InfoSphere MDM) is an enterprise application that provides a unified operational view of your customers, accounts, and products and an environment that processes updates to and from multiple channels.

InfoSphere MDM aligns these front office systems with multiple back office systems in real time, providing a single source of truth for master data. The InfoSphere MDM physical MDM platform use a component-based Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Java™ Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) architecture to rapidly integrate with other systems and deliver flexibility and scalability.

InfoSphere MDM is an enterprise application that can either be used in its standard configuration, or modified through customization. You can customize InfoSphere MDM through a number of externalized features that control its operation.

The InfoSphere MDM Workbench can be used to create and extend InfoSphere MDM and associated Web-based user interfaces to aid with stewardship over the managed information. The Workbench provides a modeling, code generation, Java development environment, and testing environment.

The Workbench supports an iterative approach to development with full round-tripping support. The Workbench is integrated with IBM Rational® Software Architect to provide access to standard software development capabilities such as:
  • Requirements management
  • Source code control
  • Asset management
  • Deployment
  • Testing

This documentation focuses on the InfoSphere MDM backend systems, especially from the system development and administration point of view. It also includes many method descriptions and code samples for developers. The major points of discussion relate to the externalized portions of the infrastructure components, the server-side tier components, and how both can be used to extend InfoSphere MDM functionality.