Master data management (MDM) is synchronized enterprise-wide business data that provides definitions and identifiers of internal and external objects involved in business transactions (e.g., customer, product, reporting unit, market share).


Information Management's DM RadioWhere there's smoke, there's fire, which is just one reason to seriously consider the principles upon which master data management was built. Information systems are increasingly heterogeneous, despite the brute force of cloud computing and its predicted hegemony. Corporations will continue to find a greater need for virtually reconciling data across a growing chorus of applications. What can you do to prepare your company? Register for this episode of DM Radio to find out! Hosts Eric Kavanagh and Justin Kern will interview Ravi Shankar of Informatica, plus Ken Pierce of SAP and Geoffrey Malafsky of Phasic Systems. This episode of DM Radio is sponsored by Talend
Of all the advances and innovations in the enterprise information space, data governance is being taxed more than ever. There are ever-more data sources and volumes, with no shortage of accompanying industry and government regulation. And content management repositories are “scattered all over the place” – worker desktops, shadow IT, cloud and SaaS outlets, mobile devices – not to mention the traditional enterprise data channels.
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