Master Data Management
Support MDM activities with best-in-class data quality and integration solutions
Companies acquiring companies. Human Resources sharing information with Finance. Businesses spanning multiple countries. What do all of these scenarios have in common? The sharing of data. What is the critical need shared by all of these scenarios? Data management. Master Data Management, to be exact.
In today’s business environment, mergers and acquisitions, data sharing, and global market presence are commonplace. To be successful, companies must not only gain control of, but must drastically improve their customer data. To do this, it is paramount for companies to implement and enforce enterprise-wide Master Data Management solutions.
Master Data Management (MDM) is a process for effectively creating a complete data context view in medium to large distributed data environments. MDM may be accompanied by Customer Data Integration (CDI) systems that provide a simplified access layer to corporate applications. The interplay between MDM and CDI provides system architects the facilities to ensure the operational contiguity of data. More simply put, the ability to understand the transactional context between a corporation and its customers.
Best in class data quality solutions from PB Software provide integrated support for any Master Data Management activity. Products such as the Spectrum™ Technology Platform, Sagent Data Flow™ and Spectrum Technology Platform modules offer workflow management for data integration, data profiling, monitoring and management capabilities to deliver the most complete view available of enterprise data. The flexible modular design and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) allow users to add or remove components based on current needs and future requirements.
Data quality and integration products from PB Software:
- Present the most complete view of the customer available, including location intelligence and geocoding
- Reduce exposure to significant or stiff penalties for failing to comply or responding with poor information
- Allow rules-driven data transformation
- Deliver high performance batch and real-time processing
- Eliminate duplicate data from disparate files and/or databases
- Meet international Know Your Customer requirements
- Reduce significant losses and risks from fraud
Learn more about the PB Software solutions to support Master Data Management, including the Spectrum Technology Platform, Data Governance Suite and Sagent Data Flow™, or contact us today to discuss your needs.
Reap the benefits of rich, more accurate customer data
Capitalize on a more accurate view of your customers – and integrate that intelligence into your business operations. The Spectrum Technology Platform provides a powerful orchestration environment to manage customer information in real-time, from all customer touch points. With a modular design and efficient batch maintenance capabilities, the Spectrum Technology Platform offers unmatched flexibility to meet current needs and future requirements.
Learn more about the Spectrum Technology Platform.
Add powerful functionality with flexible Spectrum Technology Platform modules
The Spectrum Technology Platform combines leading-edge data quality functions in a single dataflow environment, with optional modules for enhanced data integration and transformation. Featuring sophisticated parsing, standardization, data matching algorithms, geocoding, tax assignment and advanced address validation tools, these modules work together seamlessly with the Spectrum Technology Platform so you can unify account data, eliminate redundancies, link members of the same household, and expand your customer knowledge.
Learn more about transformation modules for Spectrum Technology Platform.
Data governance solutions for real-time control
Capture enterprise data from diverse data sources; profile data quality issues; create rules and thresholds that make sense for your business applications; track and report data resolution issues; and provide automatic alerts to business owners and data stewards. The Data Governance Suite provides powerful tools to profile, manage and monitor the quality of company data, and seamlessly integrates with the Spectrum Technology Platform.
Learn more about the Data Governance Suite.
A single source solution for powerful data integration capabilities
Turn data from disparate sources into actionable information with Sagent Data Flow™. Data Flow fundamentally changes the way that data is accessed and integrated, making it easy for you to extend the accessibility and usefulness of corporate data. Now you can do more with your data using the only technology that combines ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), EII (Enterprise Information Integration) and BI (Business Intelligence) in a single-source solution.
Learn more about Sagent Dataflow.
White Paper: Master Data Management
If you have ever worked in a large organization, especially a multinational one, you will know the frustration of trying to get meaningful, timely information about business performance. The problem is not a lack of data—companies are drowning in it. The difficulty stems from the fact that complex organizations have multiple ways of dealing with business issues. The heart of these problems lies in the handing of shared data and it should be self evident that it is better to run your business if this shared data is accurate, consistent and up-to-date. However, the amount of work involved in ensuring this is often under-estimated by business managers.
Read more of Master Data Management, A White Paper by Bloor Research
Authors: Philip Howard & Andy Hayler
White paper: Data Quality Considerations in Master Data Management Structures
Correct customer information is the life blood of every company. While gathering and storing vast amounts of customer data is a worthy task, it is more important to properly combine, manage, and share this information within the company and across the enterprise. Master Data Management provides the means to successfully and consistently store and share this information across diverse systems, thereby ensuring a properly managed and centralized corporate data structure.
Read the Data Quality Considerations White Paper.