Businesses increasingly are concerned with achieving faster response times, better performance and process improvement. This, coupled with the impact of Sabanes-Oxley and other stringent new regulatory requirements, is causing executives to re-examine their information management strategies.Master data is the language of doing business – the business objects, definitions, classifications and terminology that describe business information. Master data management involves ensuring that data resident in disparate systems can accessed quickly, and that the data executives rely on is of high quality. Ventana Research believes that master data management is the next frontier for unifying a business’s applications, data and information infrastructure to build an agile IT architecture.
This Benchmark, managed by Ventana Research explored the intersection of MDM with information integration management and BI, examine the evolving technologies for master data management and identify best practices in this rapidly developing area. It also will identify the key challenges in information integration that effective master data management can address.
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