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Matthew MagneJune 6, 2016 0

In search of the Holy Grail: Sorry Hadoop fans, only MDM delivers single view of customer

Single view of customer. It's a noble goal, not unlike the search for the Holy Grail – fraught with peril as you progress down the path of your data journey. If you're a hotelier, it can improve your customer's experience by providing the information from the casinos and the spa at check-in to better meet your

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Dylan JonesJune 1, 2016 2

Shifting ownership to the source – The future of MDM?

Most companies are battling with master data challenges whether they realise it or not. When you're consolidating financials from multiple billing systems, you're doing MDM. When you're migrating legacy systems to a new target environment, you're doing MDM. When you're trying to perform root-cause analysis across multiple systems for a

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Phil SimonMay 25, 2016 0

Does MDM need to be part of your data strategy?

.@philsimon on the role of MDM. TLDR: It depends.

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David LoshinMay 23, 2016 0

Dovetail process flow and master data management

In my last post, I discussed the issue of temporal inconsistency for master data, when the records in the master repository are inconsistent with the source systems as a result of a time-based absence of synchronization. Periodic master data updates that pull data from systems without considering alignment with in-process

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Todd WrightMay 19, 2016 0

Streaming data analytics: A better way to fight fraud and cybercrime

The numbers are daunting. More than 40 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. Credit card companies lose more than $200 billion annually due to fraud. Cybercrime-related losses exceed $3 million per claim for large companies. If you’re like me, those stats are enough to give pause. To fuel the concern,

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Phil SimonMay 18, 2016 0

What's the relationship between big data and MDM?

.@philsimon on the collision between the two.

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David LoshinMay 16, 2016 0

Temporal consistency for master data

Master data management (MDM) provides methods for unifying data about important entities (such as “customer” or “product”) that are managed within independent systems. In most cases, there is some kind of customer data integration requirement for downstream reporting, and analysis for some specific business objective – such as customer profiling for

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Jim HarrisMay 13, 2016 0

The quality of data in motion

I've spent much of my career managing the quality of data after it was moved from its sources to a central location, such as an enterprise data warehouse. Nowadays not only do we have a lot more data – but a lot of it is in motion. One of the

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Phil SimonMay 12, 2016 0

Considerations and tips for big data integration

.@philsimon asks some fundamental questions about taking the next step with #bigdata.

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Jim HarrisMay 9, 2016 0

Where should data quality happen?

In my previous post I discussed the practice of putting data quality processes as close to data sources as possible. Historically this meant data quality happened during data integration in preparation for loading quality data into an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) or a master data management (MDM) hub. Nowadays, however, there’s a lot of

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