Companies frequently have difficulty achieving an accurate view of the key facts that affect the organization in non-customer-facing environments such as operations and finance because data about customers, locations, accounts, suppliers, and products can often be fragmented, incomplete, or inconsistent across organizations. InfoSphere® MDM Server provides the strategic architecture needed to solve these critical enterprise master data management issues.
- Master data is a subset of all enterprise data. Master data is the high-value, core information used to support critical business processes across the enterprise. Master data is at the heart of every business transaction, application, and decision.
- Master data management is a discipline that provides a consistent understanding of master data entities (for example, subscriber, policy, and so forth). It is a set of functionality that provides mechanisms and governance for the consistent use of master data across the organization. It is designed to accommodate, control, and manage change.
InfoSphere MDM Server addresses issues of fragmented, incomplete and inconsistent data with a central repository to store master data across the organization. InfoSphere MDM Server provides a consolidated, central view of an organization’s key business facts and also provides the ability to manage master data throughout its lifecycle by integrating with each organization’s specific business rules and processes for creating, verifying, maintaining, and deleting master data from the repository. InfoSphere MDM Server helps organizations realize the full benefit of their investments in customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and business intelligence (BI) systems, as well as integration tools and data warehouses.
InfoSphere MDM Server is an enterprise application that provides the single version of truth for party, product and account master data, and an environment that processes updates to and from multiple channels, including databases. It aligns these front office systems with multiple back office systems in real time, providing a single source of customer truth. InfoSphere MDM Server uses a component-based Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) with full Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) architecture to rapidly integrate with other systems and deliver flexibility and scalability.
InfoSphere MDM Server can either be used in its standard configuration, or modified through customization. You can customize InfoSphere MDM Server through a number of externalized features, accessible to users, that control its operation.
- Data Stewardship:
- enables you to establish trusted information using robust data stewardship tools and processes such as Party suspect duplicate processing through the Data Stewardship User Interface, Event Management, and the Evergreen Console
- offers pre-built data integration and data quality
- Business Services:
- InfoSphere MDM Server integrates data from different domains using pre-built and customizable business services that interact with all applications and business processes that consume master data. All business modules have a similar structure, consisting of a pair of a controller components and a set of underlying business components.
- All persistence transactions (the transactions that modify the data) are handled by a transaction controller, while all gets and searches are handled by a finder controller.
- Multi-domain support:
- InfoSphere MDM Server uses an extensible data model that supports domains including Party, Product, Account, and Location
- InfoSphere MDM Server enables you to create customizable domains
- InfoSphere MDM Server uses robust provisions to establish and maintain relationships between domains
- Functionality:
- Stewardship: Data Quality, Stewardship, and User Interfaces
- Events: Event Management and Business Rules
- Security and Entitlement: Rules of Visibility (ROV)
- Transaction-level security for access to specific transactions by user and group
- Attribute-level security for user or user group rights to data elements
- ROV filters responses or information retrieved based on business rules
- Configurable data entitlements for users ability to add and update attributes
- Event Management:
- Event Management to detect transactional or non-transactional events
- Event Notification Framework to monitor data changes which require alerts to other systems or users
- Critical data management services to regulate the processing of changes across LOBs
