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 Master Data Management: Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies | Part 2

Organisations who accept the need for master data management still have a massive change management effort ahead of them, says Mike Ferguson.

MDM: the task ahead - Part 2 | Part 1

You must conduct a business analysis of existing processes to identify what process activities are associated with master data.

This means understanding the processes associated with creating new customers, for example, and understanding what operational and analytical applications, collaboration tools and documents are used in such processes – with the aim of identifying all core business documents, process activities (tasks), applications and application functions, application screens and online forms, reports, data integration jobs and so on, that currently access and maintain disparate master data and also to identify all data stores holding disparate master data (eg, files, RDBMSs, cubes, content management systems).

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