Talend Open Studio for MDM

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.

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  

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

Govern master data with powerful business user interface The Talend Open Studio for 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.

Orchestrate events and coordinate master data process Talend Open Studio for 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 an external process.  The possibilities are endless and are custom to your discreet requirements.

Integrate and synchronize master data in real time or batch Talend Open Studio for 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.

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 Open Studio for MDM makes these connections easy and extends this with many common free service calls, such as Google geocaching and address services.

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.