Enterprise Information Management

Combine all of an organization’s data at one source, creating greater consistency, flexibility, and efficiency.

Align data across systems

• Benefit from a single version of the truth to make decisions.

• Manage consistency of data across different environments including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Azure, and IBM.

• Align data from new and existing domains.

Gain ubiquitous access to master data

• Provide simplified system management.

• Facilitate access across the corporate intranet.

• Enable any person or system with the proper authority to contribute or subscribe.

Maintain data elements

• Manage the superset of all attributes across all systems.

• Use the data as part of daily operations for the organization.

• Enable an auditable, repeatable business process.

• Support compliance (for example, the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002).

Minimize IT expense and process time by giving people direct and secure access to master data.

Support versioning

• Version each model at different intervals (for example, monthly, quarterly, etc.).

• Work on open versions of models that align to alternate business scenarios.

• Simultaneously version models at the intervals that the business requires.

• Tag versions for subscribing systems to use.

• Enable integration processes to remain constant, while tags manage the version life cycle.

Use robust APIs

• Access any Master Data Services functionality through the Microsoft API toolset.

• Let users interact with master data from a web application without the need for a fat-client application.

• Authorize applications to be retrofitted to update master data in real time through web services.

Establish workflows and business rules

• Ensure the accuracy of master data.

• Update values.

• Set default values.

• Notify those responsible when new data is added or inaccurate.

• Commit versions of master data only after business rules have been met.

• Configure more complex event processing.

Support a wide variety of hierarchy styles by using powerful and agile hierarchy and attribute management capabilities.

Develop Hierarchies

• Create explicit hierarchies based on traditional parent-child relationships.

• Produce derived hierarchies from preexisting data relationships found within master data models.

Attribute management

• Manage the superset of attributes across systems for a domain in a flexible modeling environment.

• Effectively track all known attributes across the enterprise.

• Enter products or customers without a predefined structure.

• Load industry-standard models by using the model deployment feature, and then further customize.