Master Data Management API for Assembled ERP Tools

An ERP-centric Master Data Management Approach

Both, ERP and MDM target integration: ERP follows a business process centric approach and integrates master data along value chains into one ERP system. MDM follows a broader approach and targets providing an enterprise-wide single version of the truth of selected master data objects and distribution of them to the different target IT systems. ERP and MDM include overlapping master data managem...

Data manipulation API in ERP systems

Efficiency in data manipulation is of vital importance to ERP systems. Flexible data manipulation API helps to address a number of acute needs of end users and application developers. To be efficient the API must meet a number of requirements: (i) allow data operations at any granularity level, (ii) guarantee data integrity, (iii) be scalable, (iv) allow cross-platform invocations, (v) be conve...

What’s Your Strategy for Master Data Management?

Content-Aware Master Data Management

Master data management (MDM) provides a means to link data from various structured data sources and to generate a consolidated master record for entities such as customers or products. However, a large amount of valuable information about entities exists as unstructured content in documents. In this paper, we show how MDM can be made aware of information from unstructured content by automatical...

Analytical Master Data Management 2.0