Kirkapedia: Kirk Haselden (June 7, 2007)
"Since writing the SSIS book, I've been very busy on a new project building a strategy for MDM at Microsoft. After 14 months of studying, thinking, discussing, presenting, reviewing, approving, socializing, powerpointing..."

Have Data Will Travel (June 11, 2007)
"If you're a regular reader, you are aware that I have been blogging about MDM for about a year now. I'm very excited by the news that Microsoft acquired Stratature last week for two reasons..."

Microsoft is releasing a technology preview (TP) of our MDM solution, code named "Bulldog," to a select group of customers and partners for testing and evaluation. Find details of the Microsoft MDM TP program here.

June 7, 2007: Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Stratature. This announcement builds on the relationship Microsoft and Stratature have already established and will accelerate Microsoft delivery of technology in the MDM market.

Why is Microsoft acquiring Stratature? What is unique about Stratature? Why did Microsoft decide to buy instead of build from scratch? Find answers to these and other questions

Intelligent Enterprise (June 8, 2007): Microsoft has announced its acquisition of Stratature, a master data management (MDM) vendor that supports the definition, sharing, and maintenance of reference data.

AMR Research (June 7, 2007): We knew it was just a matter of time before Microsoft stepped into the MDM fracas. Now the company has acquired MDM provider Stratature.

Ventana Research (November 21, 2006): Analyst firm Ventana Research takes a close look at Stratature as a leading MDM software provider.

BPM Magazine (November 1, 2006): For organizations with complicated corporate or budget structures, keeping master data accurate—and so keeping budgets and financial reports accurate—can be surprisingly time-consuming.

McKesson uses master data management (MDM) to maintain reporting hierarchies for integration across systems and to bring centralization and consistency to the application of business rules.

Tiger has implemented MDM to manage their customer data across 23 different systems to extract meaningful data such as cross-product buying profiles.

GSK relies on MDM to improve product reporting across territories, roll up product data by territories and product lines, and evaluate brand performance over time, across regions and globally.

PlayCore depends on MDM to consolidate performance results from four separate GLs, streamline its integration into their business performance management system, and centralize department, customer, product, account, and company master data.

Get an overview of MDM to learn about its benefits and how to get started. Find out how a centralized approach to defining, deploying, and managing master data can benefit your organization.

Take a close look at the business issues driving the necessity and growing adoption of MDM solutions.

Discover the key MDM components that provide a proven framework for delivering enterprise-wide master data management.

Explore the trade-offs of building versus buying an enterprise MDM solution. Take a look at guidelines for making the right decision for your organization.

This webinar defines MDM, discusses cases of applied MDM in practice, and addresses the benefits of unifying all MDM strategies on a single, independent platform. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.

This webinar shows how taking an MDM approach to standardizing COA empowers Finance with a best-practice business management process to centralize and manage the structure of this crucial data. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.

This webinar discusses how a single version of truth for all hierarchical data is crucial to aligning enterprise reporting and ensuring accurate and consistent results. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.

This webinar addresses the impact of accurate and consistent customer information on customer satisfaction and retention, the bottom line, and future growth. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.

This webinar covers the benefits and best practices associated with delivering a single source of product data through PIM. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.

This webinar discusses how improved location information management is paramount to the BPM initiatives of large companies with many stores and facilities. Viewing this webinar requires sign-in.