Questions tagged [master-data-management]

Master Data Management (MDM) aims to provide a single point of reference for an organisation's slow-moving but critical data. MDM does not give precedence to fast-moving / transaction data.

A master data management tool can be used to support master data management by removing duplicates, standardizing data (mass maintaining), and incorporating rules to eliminate incorrect data from entering the system in order to create an authoritative source of master data.

Here is the Wikipedia article for MDM.

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Microsoft Master Data Services : How to get/set description of Model/Entity programmatically

I work with MDS 2008 / API to insert/update Models, Entities, Attributes and Members programmatically. I want to get or set the description of one Model or one Entity. If fact on Master Data Manager, we can see this on metadata of one model or…
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Difference between transactional and non-transactional

Simply stated: What is the difference between "Transactional" and "Non-Transactional"? In my case I came up with this question while reading the following definition for "MDM": "In computing, master data management" (MDM) comprises a set of …
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Master Data Management Strategies in Microservices paradigm

Working on migrating a huge monolithic application to microservices paradigm, needless to say the domains identification and mapping then to different microservices and the orchestration has been quite a task. Now as the previous application shared…
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Bounded Context for Master and Reference Data in DDD

I am relatively new to the concept of DDD and have found there are plenty of examples which explain how a bounded context should be defined for relatively simple scenarios, but one area that doesn't seem to be covered is master data and reference…
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An L1 entity type and an L3 entity type having the same label

In Reltio, can I give a label to an entity type in L3 configuration that is already present in L1 configuration? For example, we know that Individual is an entity type in L1 configuration. So, can I make an Individual entity type in L3…
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Master Data Services REST API

I have a Microsoft Master Data Services installation, SQL Server 2014. I need to provide a REST interface to allow an external system to push data into our MDS staging area. MDSS has a WCF API available out of the box but we specifically need to…
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Achieving MasterData deduplication on Azure

I am looking at achieving Master Data deduplication based on match percentages in AzureDB...was looking at something equivalent to Master Data Services/ DQS (Data Quality Services) in SQL…
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SQL connection lifetime

I am working on an API to query a database server (Oracle in my case) to retrieve massive amount of data. (This is actually a layer on top of JDBC.) The API I created tries to limit as much as possible the loading of every queried information into…
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Porting native C++ server with XML commands and huge in-memory project data to webservice. How todo and which Framework?

we have an existing C++ (STL, boost, Qt4) server application which communicates by xml commands over tcp sockets with the clients. The interface is proprietary, but not so far from SOAP, but with one exception. We have large set of master- and…
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Changing System Administrator in MDS database

So the consultant who created our MDS database has left but his account is still the system admin. I looked everywhere online on how to change the old admin and it suggested everywhere to do it through udpSecuritySetAdministrator stored procedure…
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MDM and Information as a Service (IaaS)

MDM (Master Data Management) has been a buzz word past several years. Most of the Information/Data Architects are beginning to understand how to design and implement MDM and use it as an SOA enabler. There is another concept called Information as a…
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Is there any way to move individual entity from one server to another in Master data services?

I have master data model with some entity and it is deployed on production server. Now i have created 2 more new entity in development server and wanted to move only these two entity. If anyone has any idea please share with me. Thanks !
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IBM MDM, error while extending the Organization entity

I am doing a POC in IBM Infosphere MDM, with physical MDM to be specific. I will go through the steps I did. Without doing any extensions or addition, I ran the addOrganization service with the default model provided with the ibm software. The…
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How to use Master Data Services data then? The MDS lifecycle

So I know that we need to create Master Data Services db to make data clean, right, consistent, etc. We can import some data there, then process it.. and then? We should then export it to another db, is it so? So MDS is like a set of tools to clean…
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Using Neo4j to build a Master Data Management

I am trying to use Neo4j to build an MDM. I am just trying to model our customer database with some properties, like email, documentNumber, address, phone, mobilephone and so on. The problem is that our database is too dirty. For example, I have…
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