Enterprise Wide Data Integration and Master Data Management

The operational landscape for most large global enterprises especially those with heavy mergers challenges the success of the business in many ways. High and redundant IT costs, Redudant master sources such as Customer and Product Dimensions, slow B2B operations against disaparate data sources to name but a few. The purpose of this session it to ouline the steps and techniques to follow to improve the overall IT operation by driving the estblishment of horizontal architectural thinking and the developement and deployment of master data references.

We will consider the following areas:

• Technical architecture considerations
• Data architecture development
• Service oriented architecture
• Master data reference selection
• Master data delivery (custom and package applications)