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Get more value from your data with Common Data Model

Solve problems quickly. Innovate faster. A unified data model allows you to share data and its meaning more easily across applications and business processes.

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Increase agility with a shared understanding of your data

Add intelligence to your data

Make it second nature to base decisions on insights found throughout your organization’s data. Enrich raw information and turn it into data that can be used by applications, machine learning, and AI algorithms to deliver accessible, understandable, and actionable insights.

Eliminate barriers to connect multiple applications

Quickly and easily gain valuable insights while boosting agility and maintaining compliance. Use rich industry standard metadata definitions for all your data to maximize interoperability across multiple business applications and solutions, and to remove barriers between teams and departments.

Optimize productivity while saving money

Reduce friction between teams and departments by sharing data and its definitions using Common Data Model. Use consistent and meaningful definitions of data to save time, lower costs, and increase productivity across multiple disciplines in the organization.

Build intelligent modern applications

Enable your organization to make smart decisions. Use Common Data Model to develop modern solutions, applications, and analytics that share a common understanding of your business data. Expand insights with a standard schema that enables rapid unification of data.

  • Unify data with a documented and well-defined structure.

  • Bring together data from different applications using standard definitions.

  • Build solutions with a trusted common language.

  • Extend standard entity definitions to meet business needs.

  • Discover data meanings with self-describing semantics.

  • Build semantically aware reporting and analytics.
  • Easily create automated machine learning models.

  • Enable machine reasoning over data by utilizing rich, meaningful metadata.

  • Share and exchange well-described data with customers and partners.

  • Increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership with standard machine-readable data definitions.
  • Align common and shared definitions for heterogenous, unified data.

  • Build solutions and applications with the Common Data Model SDK.

  • Take advantage of the large number of published standard definitions.

  • Continue working with tools and skills familiar to your organization.
  • Use your existing data and access-management policies.
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What people are saying about Common Data Model

"Common Data Model provides VeriPark with a consistent and defined data structure to generate insights and actions to help our customers in the financial service industry become digital leaders."

Ozkan Erener
CEO, VeriPark

“Our industry solutions help hospitals and healthcare providers simplify the interoperability between EMR and other business applications using Common Data Model.”

Syed Fahad
Corporate Vice President, Mazik Global

“By harmonizing and unifying business-relevant data in one platform, data ownership is where it belongs: in our customers' hands. We see CDM as the key jigsaw piece to finally enable truly advanced portfolio management.”

Jan-Henry Ohlert
Director of Engineering, BuildingMinds

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Get started with Common Data Model

Learn more about Common Data Model.

Search the comprehensive library of Common Data Model definitions.

Get the latest Common Data Model SDK.

Browse and subscribe to the Common Data Model GitHub repository for the latest object model, definitions, schema, and samples.

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