MDM Strategy
Defining the Strategy That Works Best for You
The choice of MDM strategy ranks among the most important IT decisions that any CTO or CIO faces, with implications that impact almost every business unit across the enterprise. A successful MDM strategy can result in major competitive advantage, cost savings, new business generation, enhanced data governance capabilities and greater regulatory compliance. But, if you make the wrong strategy, vendor or design decisions, you risk losing time and money when you have to reengineer your entire implementation.
That’s why we place so much emphasis on our strategy consultation process, working with you to analyze your existing Master Data ecosystem, and exploring the many different ways you might use the solution — both short and long-term.
Based on this deep insight, we help define the strategy that works best for you by focusing on the following areas.
- Build vs. buy decision
- Most appropriate CDI and MDM hub style
- Vendor selection
- A road map to achieve your business goals
Selecting the Best MDM Products
If buy is more important than build, we help you select the best vendor product to match your MDM needs, using objective and balanced criteria for comparison:
- Data model coverage
- Richness of features
- Data quality and cleansing tools
- Integration infrastructure
- Technology base
- Performance and scalability
- SOA capabilities
Making Sense of Complex MDM Planning
Organizations may have hundreds of applications that require master data, and potentially dozens of master data domains. MDM strategies involve multiple IT projects, and many fail due to lack of momentum. Often, MDM projects driven by IT alone fail to move past the initial pilot or first-phase deployment. Others have bloated business requirements that are incapable of delivering value within a reasonable time frame.
Given the complexity, understanding all of the factors that affect an MDM implementation strategy can be challenging. And, with a wide variety of products and solutions on offer, selecting the right vendor to match your long-term vision as well as your short-term needs is difficult.
With intimate knowledge of IBM’s market-leading MDM solution, and unmatched working experience with the most powerful MDM implementations worldwide, InfoTrellis is perfectly positioned to help you navigate a clear and simple path to MDM success.
Working with the Architects of MDM
There are numerous MDM product vendors, systems integrators, niche service providers, application suite vendors and other third party providers claiming to have the solution to your master data problem. The reality is that few companies can offer the level of MDM knowledge your business requires.
In a market where skilled MDM consultants are scarce, InfoTrellis offers its clients unrivalled MDM knowledge, as well as extensive experience working for the world’s largest and most successful adopters of MDM technology. With InfoTrellis to help shape your project, you know you’re working with the most experienced MDM strategists available.
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