Data. Our industry really loves that word, making it seem like the whole world revolves around it. We certainly enjoy revolving a lot of words around it. We put words like master, big, and meta before it, and words like management, quality, and governance after it. This spins out disciplines
Transaction systems that feed master data repositories ensure a degree of synchronization that ensures proper transaction execution. The transaction processing system generally only looks at a few records at one time, and updates are committed so that they do not interfere with other transactions. Transaction within each subsystem are isolated
Truth is a funny thing. And I don’t just mean how some true things are funny. A few examples include that strawberries are not berries, peanuts are not nuts, Chock Full o’Nuts coffee does not contain nuts, and the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow did not write his hit song “I Write
Transaction systems maintain synchronization of the stages of their execution sequences. That is a fact; otherwise users would never trust that the results of the process (think about it – you would not want to incur a service fee at your bank because your withdrawal was inadvertently processed before the
A way of paraphrasing what I suggested in my last post was that as master data practitioners, we are often focused too much on pulling data from source systems to populate a master entity model and not focused enough on understanding how dependencies across business processes may influence the proper
I thought it might be worth taking a short break from discussing metadata and instead cycle back to an idea that has been challenging me recently in a few of our current MDM consulting engagements. I have been examining patterns for master data use, and one of the common recurring
Yesterday was one of the two times a year that an equinox occurs. From its Latin roots, the term equinox translates as equal night since, on the day of an equinox, daytime and night are of approximately equal duration. This occurs because during an equinox the Sun is aligned with the center of the
In my last set of posts I started to look at some of the challenges associated with enterprise management of reference data domains, especially as the scope of use for the same conceptual reference domains expands across databases, systems, and functional areas within the organizations. Recognizing the value of capturing
In physics, antimatter has the same mass, but opposite charge, of matter. Collisions between matter and antimatter lead to the annihilation of both, the end result of which is a release of energy available to do work. In this blog series, I will use antimatter as a metaphor for a factor
Periodic synchronization of your master data environment presumes batching up new entries to be processed all at once. Full synchronization means that any new entity brought into one of the enterprise systems will immediately be added to the master index. There are benefits and drawbacks to both of these approaches,
