Master Data Management Case Studies
Examples, insight and guidance from expert users at organizations who have implemented MDM. Benefit from users' MDM-specific lessons learned, mistakes and tips while learning about MDM's costs, benefits and technical implementation details.
| No Data Left Behind: Federal Student Aid A Case History |
| A detailed look at the US Department of Education's Enterprise Data Management project, including project objectives, business drivers, architecture and much more. From the Resource: "EDM is a service to the business with the following goals: Support the improvement of enterprise analytics and Decrease the cost of and improve the quality of new development projects Focus on data as an enterprise asset." |
| Holly Hyland & Lisa Elliott, US Department of Education |
| Dow's Master Data Management Business Processes |
| One of our favorite MDM Resources. 30 slides of MDM value from within Dow Chemical, covering the company's MDM history, strategy, implementations, architecture and roadmap. Highly recommended. |
| Jim Whyte, Dow Chemical |
| How Master Data Management Unified Financial Reporting at Nationwide Insurance |
| An in-depth look at how Nationwide Insurance made a strategic, whole-company investment in MDM, including steps taken, goals, problem sets, solution and many quotes from the key personnel involved. In this project, 280 team members worked 1.2 million man hours over 24 months. From the Resource: "'When you're dealing with 14 general ledger platforms and over 50 applications, it was enormous work to get the financials out.' The problem lay knotted in a tangle of systems and applications, and some 240 sources of financial data flowing in and around Nationwide's business units. The units had always run independently, and that's how financial reporting was handled." |
| Thomas Wailgum, CIO Magazine |
