Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER: This white paper by Dr. Walid el Abed, CEO of Global Data Excellence, discusses how an effective data strategy embedded within the business strategy can turn data into a real competitive advantage, deliver short and longer term value and enable business success and sustainability.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Critical master data management (MDM) functionality can be easily overlooked when request for proposals (RFPs) are narrowly focused on a single business data type. Ensure success by avoiding 10 costly mistakes when writing your RFP.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Smart decision-makers are seeking technology investments -- such as Master Data Management -- to help establish good governance models that will help with regulatory compliance and lower their operational risk.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The initial goal of Customer Data Integration (CDI) was to create the most reliable customer data for the entire company. We now know that the golden opportunity for CDI lies within Master Data Management and the ability to uncover interactions and understand the relationships that companies have with their customers.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Over the past several years, most Master Data Management implementations have used a "reactive" style of data governance. Learn how "reactive" data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a "proactive" approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organization’s requirements.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Faced with budget cuts In today's economic environment, how can IT maintain service levels and continue to provide value to business? Smart IT decision-makers are investing in master data management.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data migration can be defined as transferring of data between storage types, formats or computer systems, it is required when organizations or individuals change computer systems or upgrade to new systems.

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management.

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system.

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Too often, data governance teams rely on existing measurements as the metrics used to populate a data quality scorecard. But without a defined understanding of the relationship between specific measurement scores and the business's success criteria..

Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 26 Jun 2008