Authors: Marty-Moseley: dbta.com

Biographical Information

Marty Moseley

Marty Moseley is chief technology officer at Initiate Systems, a leading provider of masterdata management software. Additional information on Initiate Systems is available at www.initiatesystems.com.

Articles By Marty Moseley

Simplifying Master Data Management Deployments

Compared to the myriad group of "integrated" systems that most companies are managing today, master data management (MDM) solutions are much simpler to manage and maintain, and provide companies with more business benefits. Unfortunately, MDM technology is developing a reputation for being complicated and taking a long time to implement when the reality is that the process can be dramatically simplified if companies plan before they implement.

Posted 15 Jun 2009 / June 2009 Issue

Integrating MDM into the Data Warehouse

Organizations that really want to take advantage of a higher performance, more agile and lower cost data warehouse architecture, should implement master data management (MDM) to improve data quality. Nearly every data warehouse ecosystem has attempted to manage master data within its data warehouse architecture, but has focused on mastering data after transactions occur. This approach does little to improve data quality because data are "fixed" after the fact. The best way to improve data quality is to move the process "upstream" of the data warehouse and before transactions are executed.

Posted 11 Nov 2009 / November 2009 Issue