MDM is now accepted by most enterprises as a key enabling and competitive technology – as well as a vital business strategy (know your customer, e-pedigree, etc.). As the market consolidates, (e.g., IBM/Initiate, Informatica/Siperian Oracle/Sun), other dimensions further complicate the product selection process – open source, multi-entity MDM, and integrated data governance to name a few. Moreover, the application vendors (Oracle, SAP, Teradata) are increasingly interweaving core MDM capabilities within the application stack while infrastructure…

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