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 maintains
master data for multiple domains including customer, account, and
product as well as other data types such as location and privacy preferences.
Using more than 700 business services designed to work seamlessly
with a tested, proven master data management data model,
InfoSphere MDM
Server facilitates
integration with all applications and business processes that consume
master data. Both the services and the data model are designed to
be easily extensible.
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.
InfoSphere MDM
Server integrates
robust functionality with Service Oriented Architecture
- 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