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The Only Complete Technical Primer for MDM Planners, Architects, and Implementers

Companies moving toward flexible SOA architectures often face difficult information management and integration challenges. The master data they rely on is often stored and managed in ways that are redundant, inconsistent, inaccessible, non-standardized, and poorly governed. Using Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can regain control of their master data, improve corresponding business processes, and maximize its value in SOA environments.

Enterprise Master Data Management provides an authoritative, vendor-independent MDM technical reference for practitioners: architects, technical analysts, consultants, solution designers, and senior IT decisionmakers. Written by the IBM^® data management innovators who are pioneering MDM, this book systematically introduces MDM’s key concepts and technical themes, explains its business case, and illuminates how it interrelates with and enables SOA.

Drawing on their experience with cutting-edge projects, the authors introduce MDM patterns, blueprints, solutions, and best practices published nowhere else—everything you need to establish a consistent, manageable set of master data, and use it for competitive advantage.

Coverage includes

• How MDM and SOA complement each other

• Using the MDM Reference Architecture to position and design MDM solutions within an enterprise

• Assessing the value and risks to master data and applying the right security controls

• Using PIM-MDM and CDI-MDM Solution Blueprints to address industry-specific information management challenges

• Explaining MDM patterns as enablers to accelerate consistent MDM deployments

• Incorporating MDM solutions into existing IT landscapes via MDM Integration Blueprints

• Leveraging master data as an enterprise asset—bringing people, processes, and technology together with MDM and data governance

• Best practices in MDM deployment, including data warehouse and SAP integration

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The only complete technical primer for MDM planners and implementers - 2008-09-11
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Advanced computer libraries will find ENTERPRISE MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT is the only complete technical primer for MDM planners and implementers and companies moving toward flexible SOA will find it invaluable. It provides MDM technical knowledge for designers, senior IT decision-makers and others, and is written by the IBM data management innovators who are pioneering MDM. From discussions of how MDM and SOA compliment each other to assessing risks, values, and exploring MDM patterns, chapters cover a range of technical data and best practice solutions and are invaluable to any IT collection.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Masterfully organized - 2009-02-12
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I am a long-time SAP technical consultant (admittedly with IBM, as are the authors of this book), but with little experience or knowledge of MDM. This is one of the best organized and most cohesively presented technical works I have read in some time (though the reader needn't be technical to get a great deal from the book). After having read it, I can't conceive of architecting an MDM solution without this book at my finger tips. And, as pointed out by other reviewers, the book is truly product agnostic.

Excellent text on services-based approach to MDM - 2009-02-05
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These guys have put together a great overview of MDM from both the technical and operational perspective. The chapter on the MDM reference architecture details the core concepts that make MDM appealing. At the same time, the discussion in the book are often centered on operational patterns that are common across different industries (e.g., security) as well as examples/cases that are industry-specific.

If your business management is funding an MDM program, this is a good read for those on the design and implementation team, and an excellent companion to my own book, "Master Data Management."

MDM - 2009-09-13
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I bought this book with the intentions that it would give me examples clear and crisp about Master Data Management. But each time I read a chapter, it was lacking the information that I was looking for.This book takes a point and talks about it for pages and pages together. Sometimes, this book put me to sleep. Maybe it is just me , all the reviews that I read were so positive about this book.

The bible of MDM - 2008-07-07
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This book covers all aspects of MDM needed to know in depth the topic.
Excellent book.

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