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I just read a great article by Stephen Putman at http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/6122.
His main points are that:

CDI and MDM platforms ”are ‘just another system’, with the attendant expense in both procurement and implementation”
“The products (naturally) work best in a homogenous environment, ignoring the reality [...]

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At Hub Solution Designs, we refer to the different major areas of master data as “domains”. 
According to a survey by The Data Warehousing Institute in mid-2006, the domain most often defined in master data is the customer (74%), followed by products (54%) [...]

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In an earlier article, we covered the similarities between ERP and MDM.  In this piece, we want to touch on some differences.
Timing of the Data Analysis Stage: Unlike ERP, Data Analysis needs to come in the very first stage of an MDM [...]

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Here are ten best practices for MDM and CDI that I’ve picked up, based on years of working as a technology consultant and managing a strategic alliance between one of the leading information providers and a large software company.
1. Active, involved executive [...]

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As a member of the Education Committee for the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), I’m helping to plan next April’s COLLABORATE 08 Conference (I’m managing the “Master Data Management” track).  Here’s the announcement of the current Call for Papers, which ends at [...]

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I’ve been working with Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, now called the E-Business Suite, since 1995.
My first exposure was as the project manager for an Oracle Release 10.5 implementation at a manufacturing company.  Later, I was part of the Oracle practices [...]

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