How to eliminate duplicated data
Rob Toguri, Director of Business Information Management, Capgemini discusses the benefits of 'master data management' ensuring current, consistent and accurate data.
13 September 2007
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Inconsistent data isn’t just inconvenient, it can hamper business agility and lower your competitive advantage.
A traditional solution of implementing a enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite is no long seen as resolving the issue. With the extras needed to compliment the ERP system meant that each new system would have its own database, data format and, frequently, it’s own version of data.
Master data management (MDM) is the technology developed to help businesses improve data consistency and accuracy.
“The MDM database checks and revises data constantly,” says Rob. “By defining changes to data in one place and then rippling that through to relevant databases, MDM ensures that key data relating to customers, suppliers, products, employees and so on is current, consistent and accurate across all systems in the enterprise.”
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