Master Data Management Tips & Best Practices
Gain practical guidance from leading users, analysts and experts on how to successfully approach and implement MDM. Includes MDM implementation examples, guidance, checklists, mistakes and tips.
| Centralized Master Data Management: Best Practices for Launching an MDM Strategy |
| A concentrated and valuable presentation from an Enterprise Data Architect at Dow Chemical. Topics covered include: building an MDM business case, launching an MDM strategy, setting MDM-specific expectations, MDM components and styles, Dow's Master Data strategy and MDM strategic direction, data architecture and governance and much more. Highly recommended. |
| Jim Whyte, Dow Chemical |
| Ten Best Practices for Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration |
| An insightful collection of MDM best practices that "aren't intended to be an exhaustive list of best practices, but they should get you thinking and hopefully, save you a little time or help you avoid some of the more common mistakes companies make." The best practices are: 1. Active, involved executive sponsorship, 2. The business should own the data governance process and the MDM or CDI project, 3. Strong project management and organizational change management, 4. Use a holistic approach - people, process, technology and information:, 5. Build your processes to be ongoing and repeatable, supporting continuous improvement, 6. Management needs to recognize the importance of a dedicated team of data stewards, 7. Understand your MDM hub's data model and how it integrates with your internal source systems and external content providers, 8. Resist the urge to customize, 9. Stay current with vendor-provided patches, 10. Test, test, test and then test again. See the Resource for complete information. |
| Dan Power, Hub Solution Designs |
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