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CONTENTS
Introduction to Master Data Management
Key terms and definitions
Building a MDM strategy
Understanding MDM technology
MDM case studies
Advice, reports and white papers on MDM
A quick guide to MDM tools
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| Key terms and definitions |
- Definition: Collaborative
Master Data Management
- Definition: data
classification
- Definition: data
cleansing
- Definition: data
integration
- Definition: data
lifecycle management
- Definition: data
mining
- Definition: data
quality
- Definition: dirty
data
- Definition: information
lifecycle management
- Definition: raw
data
| Building a MDM strategy |
- Article: Is MDM all hype?
- Article: Building a business case for MDM
- Article: CRM's ROI answer
- Article: Top 10 business warehouse best practices
- Article: Distinguishing CDI and master data management
- Article: Relationships beyond customer relationships
- Article: SAP leading the way in master data management
- Article: SAP's NetWeaver fuels RFID race
| Understanding MDM technology |
- Article: Nortel to dump Oracle, solve fiscal woes using SAP
- Article: IBM's MDM may threaten SAP and Oracle
- Article: Oracle acquisition highlights data management wars
- Article: No middling in IBM's master plan
- Article: IBM tackles services-oriented information management
- Q and A: Trimming fat on the NetWeaver diet
- Q and A: SAP primer: From GDS to MDM and RFID
- Article: SAP acquisition bolsters NetWeaver's MDM
- News: Sapphire bestseller: NetWeaver for Dummies
- News: IBM strikes at SAP's MDM
- News: Shai Agassi's passion -- NetWeaver
- Article: SAP harmonizes data
| MDM case studies |
- Article: Raytheon executives accept SAP XI pitch
- Article: General Mills repairs product data for compliance
- Article: The Body Shop scrubs out legacy systems
| Advice, reports and white papers on MDM |
- Whitepaper: Getting Started with Master Data Management
- Tip: Using IT practices and IT scenarios to understand SAP NetWeaver -- introduction
- Ask the experts: Will business intelligence and SAP BW help automate the downloading process?
- Q and A: Data management market heats up
- Webcast: Operation Customer Data Integration (CDI): Enabling Customer-centric Business - Vendor Webcast
- Whitepaper: Master Data Management with Ascential's Data Integration Platform
- Webcast: Jumpstart CRM - The Benefits of Enterprise Data Integration
- IT knowledge exchange: SAP Master Data Management
- Webcast Developing a Pathway to Harmonized Master Reference Data
| A quick guide to MDM tools |
(Editors' note: This list is not exhaustive. We've simply provided these vendors to give you a starting point from which to begin your research.)
- SAP
- IBM
- Siebel
- Oracle
- Hyperion
- Kalido
- Similarity Systems
- Informatica Data Integration Solutions
- i2
- DataFlux
- Firstlogic
- Siperian
- DWL
This was first published in January 2006
Data Management Strategies for the CIO
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