Talend Enterprise MDM

Talend Enterprise MDM provides a comprehensive set of functions for enterprise-scale master data management. It delivers easy to deploy, rapid end-to-end functionality for integration, quality, mastering and collaborating on enterprise data.

Data is critical for the success of every organization.  It is a key corporate asset and a differentiator for many organizations; however, analyzing and mastering this critical asset is often difficult as it often relies on email, shared spreadsheets and databases or proprietary black-box applications.

Further, this data is found in disparate sources in heterogeneous formats and with no process to maintain its accuracy and viability. Even if a common definition is found, duplicates and inconsistencies can lead to erroneous analytics or conflicting policy.

MDM presents a single source of the truth for this key asset, your master data. MDM also helps enforce data governance policies and enables a collaborative workflow so that business stakeholders can share responsibility over and access to more complete, consistent and accurate data. It provides a system of record no matter the disparity of source systems and ensures that master data stays clean and is made available to those who need it and are authorized.

Until now, typical MDM projects have been extremely expensive and have taken months, if not years to complete. Talend simplifies MDM with a flexible and open approach to a master data projects. It presents a complete solution at a fraction of the cost and is the only open source solution in the market.


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Key Capabilities

Profile

Perform a regular quality assessment on any dataset to detect anomalies and understand data models. Provide insight through reports and visual indicators.

Integrate

Acquire any data from any source and allow the data to be synchronized and made available in batch or real time and in the right formats to the right systems and users.

Cleanse

Cleanse, standardize and augment data as well as a capability to remove duplicates or accurately identify and survive matching data across and within sources.

Model & Master

Present intuitive tools to model any data and define relationships among master data. Secure and provision data by user, group or system. Enable any MDM architectural style.

Collaborate

Enable a group of users to collaborate on, agree and publish a set of accepted master data. Supply intuitive audit tools for manual resolution of data tasks.

Flexible and dynamic master data management

Ultimately, MDM helps organizations meet corporate objectives for increased revenue, decreased costs, risk management and regulatory compliance.  For every organization, MDM will mean something different to them.  Below are some common benefits that MDM provides.

  • Improve Analytics
    Business Intelligence applications has always tried to offer “one version of the truth” and a “360 degree view” that provide very valuable insight to the analysts. Data Warehouse and ERPs have failed to provide BI with the right data and Master Data Management is probably the only way to reach those goals.

  • Increase Revenue through effective cross sale, up sale
    A single view of a customer across multiple lines of business provides insight into purchasing behavior that can be mined to find opportunities for cross sale or up sell of products to a customer. This interests most organizations and especially those that have recently merged or acquired another company.

  • Synchronize and align the business
    Many organizations have multiple back end systems that contain partly similar information. ERP vendors push for consolidating that data in a single application but this can be long, inflexible and may not make business sense. The MDM approach is instead to synchronize those systems so that all are working on the same page.

  • Identify and avoid risk
    MDM offers a complete view of data aligned across departments which provides valuable cross system analysis for risk management.  For example an organization can compile a complete picture of a customer or a supplier in order to understand the risk associated with doing business (or not) with them.
Regardless of Business purpose, a successful MDM project will employ several functions in order to deliver value over time. The typical set of functions include the following:

Active data model allows you to quickly model and master any domain

The Talend Enterprise MDM data model provides the flexibility to model and master any domain.  It implements inheritance and polymorphism and allows you to define advanced business rules, validations, access rights and registry lookups directly on the model.  It is the center of the solution and drives all interactions with quality, workflow and integration capabilities.

Govern master data with powerful business user interface

The Talend Enterprise MDM user interface provides the business user a rich utility to search and manage master data.  View data in standard composite views to gain a 360-degree view of any master entity or investigate a hierarchy. The Ajax based interface is dynamically driven by the data model and changes as the model changes. Any validations found on the model instantiate themselves as validations on the web-based forms.  Finally, you can also customize any view for any user with a custom form designer.

Search any master data across multiple domains in under a second

Talend Enterprise MDM provides a search capability unlike any other MDM solution.  From the home page of the business user interface you can search across all domains and tens of millions of master records in less than a second to obtain easy to understand, linked search results. 

Enable the business with workflow and process for master data

Talend Enterprise MDM allows you to define and track master data through a process or series of steps using tasks.  This task-based workflow enables true collaboration among business users to create a consistent and reliable set of master data. Configuration of workflow uses an intuitive graphical interface and is tightly integrated with the data model. A graphical trail of process steps provides contextual history as tasks are being resolved.

Orchestrate events and coordinate master data process

Talend Enterprise MDM implements a structure of triggers and processes that allow you to coordinate and orchestrate any process for your master data. Every create, read, update or delete of master data is evaluated and initiate an event to look for a duplicate, enrich data, synchronize a back end system, send an email and even kick off a workflow.  The possibilities are endless and are custom to your discreet requirements. 

Integrate and synchronize master data in real time or batch

Talend Enterprise MDM includes a rich data-integration layer with more than 400 components, including JMS, Web Service, FTP, HTTP, and Change Data Capture (CDC) that allow you to connect to virtually any system or database to obtain and synchronize master data.  Pre-packaged connectors for business systems and databases are included.  A list of over 400 connectors can be found at http://www.talendforge.org/components/. 

Profile data to gain insight

In order to improve the quality of enterprise data you need to be aware of potential defects and analyze it to make sure it conforms to company and industry standards. Data profiling provide pre-defined tests and business rules to ensure data quality is fit-for-use within your enterprise application.

Identify duplicate records with simple matching

Talend Enterprise MDM presents a new generation of data matching technique that replaces the overly complex process used by legacy vendors. With Talend, matching is configured within simple graphical components and accuracy is built in hours not days.  Sophisticated matching algorithms are provided that help you find duplicates and near duplicates in your data.

Construct a master record with automated and manual resolution

Dedicated survivorship components define common business rules to apply to sets of duplicate records and automate the creation of a single master.  Additionally, an intuitive interface presents candidate duplicate records to a data steward and provides the tools to quickly identify the attributes to survive and then commit a master record to the hub.

Standardize master data to gain consistency and validity

Talend Enterprise MDM includes a palette of components that allow you to apply common standards to any data.  This includes tools to parse and cleanse data according to acceptable business standards.

Enrich master data with trusted third parties

Third party data providers are a valuable source to enrich your data with standard reference data or trusted account hierarchies.  They also provide address standardization services. Talend Enterprise MDM makes these connections easy and extends this with many common free service calls, such as Google geocaching and address services.

Control and provision master data to users and groups

Roles based access controls are applied to nearly every concept in Talend Enterprise MDM. From read/wrote access to master data attributes to workflow and the actions the business user can take on the data, all can be controlled.  Further, access to explicit data based on values can be provisioned.  Roles and rights can be defined native within the solution or within an external LDAP structure.

The comparaison matrix

MDM for Product Data

The process of developing, producing, distributing and supporting products are tremendously complicated when there's no one place you can go to see the entire product catalog for the whole enterprise. Creation of a single product information hub reduces complexity and brings huge value.

MDM for Customer Data and CRM

Customer data is the lifeblood of any organization; however, it is often wrought with data quality issues and resides in disparate formats in disparate systems.  Reconciliation of this data and a single view across systems can provide huge value for an organization. These are core use cases for master data management.

MDM for ERP

Companies using ERP suites quickly realize that data quality is essential to proper system operation and the generation of business value. ERP systems with duplicate data. They are good at processing transactions, but not so good at managing master data, data quality, hierarchy management, enrichment with third-party content, data governance, matching, cleansing and duplicate resolution. MDM is used to aid with these functions and synchronize data within multiple ERPs or to other systems.

MDM for Employee Data

Human Resources deploy a wide range of systems to provide value to the organization. Further, the onboard and termination processes can be complex. Effective employee master data can help HR deploy services quicker, onboard employees more efficiently, eliminate risk associated with terminated employees, and process mergers and acquisitions more quickly.


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