TDWI The Data Warehousing Institute

Developing a Pragmatic Approach to Customer Master Data Management

In highly competitive markets, retaining existing customers is critical. During periods of rapid growth companies often focus more on new customer acquisition. In more trying times, however, most companies recognize that maintaining revenue flow depends on customer retention and up-selling. Benchmark research carried out by Ventana Research into customer data and information management shows that a major impediment to achieving these goals is the state of a company’s customer data.

Sponsored By Acxiom

Data, Data Everywhere: A Report on Managing Information

This special report from The Economist covers the phenomenon of the Data Deluge -- everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring. According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005.

Sponsored By SAP

Parsing and Standardization

In this paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity looks at common data error paradigms –- descriptions, examples, and ways that data-set quality is impacted by those common root causes for introducing errors. He examines aspects of metadata management that help to limit the scope of introduced errors, and how that metadata is used by parsing and standardization utilities to normalize data.

Sponsored By DataFlux

Commodity Coding: Code It or Buy (Too Much of) It

Commodity classification can yield tremendous benefits, and with some thought, preparation, and the right technical skills, those rewards can extend throughout your organization.

Sponsored By DataFlux

Realize Unparalleled Business Value from Enterprise Data

This white paper introduces and examines a breakthrough platform solution designed to drive parallel-process data integration –- without intensive pre-configuration – and support full-lifecycle data management from discovery to retirement. It identifies how small to enterprise-size companies with different data-integration requirements and challenges can realize significant performance gains from a solution that effortlessly scales to meet evolving business needs.

Sponsored By DataFlux

Master Reference Data: Extract Value from Your Most Common Data

Creating master reference data can be very simple. Typically, an organization will start small and then grow the master as acceptance spreads throughout the organizations. This white paper presents some key considerations for creating a reference data master.

Sponsored By Talend

Building a Robust Business Case for High-Quality Master Data

This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.

Sponsored By Talend

Testing: Talend MDM Enterprise Edition 4.0

Open Source Master Data Management.

Sponsored By Talend