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TDWI Best Practices Report | Master Data Management: Consensus-Driven Data Definitions for Cross-Application Consistency: Asset

Although MDM has long been done in a few isolated silo applications, companies now practice it in more silos and with more connections among silos. Forward-looking companies even practice enterprise MDM, with a broad scope across many applications and businesses. As with many data management practices, the general trend in MDM is toward broader and better integrated enterprise scope.