Talend MDM combine data integration, data quality, cleansing, profiling, master data and data governance in one single platform. Talend's unique Active Data Model allows organizations to model and master any data domain, not just customers or products, and systematically improve access and reliability across enterprise systems.

Currently Talend's MDM offers two editions.

- Talend MDM Community Edition (Free under GPL License, download link)
- Talend MDM Enterprise Edition

Active Data Model
Talend's Active Data Model allows organizations to immediately model and master any data domain without a constraining data model and conditionally drive integration and synchronization with external systems to reduce system complexity and time to deploy.

Domain Driven Integration
With Talend MDM, the master data drives interactions with external systems. The solution employs a unique event manager to drive when and where data is synchronized, augmented or distributed. A graphical tool provides over 400 proven components and connectors to build and deploy integration jobs with any application, database or system

Master Data Quality
Talend MDM provides features that allow to validate, resolve, standardize, cleanse and augment master data. The solution delivers a robust data profiling tool. It packages native components for name and address standardization, and callouts to external standardization services are provided. Callouts to external source including lookups for hierarchies or some other reference codes can be performed based on specific data criteria.

Data Stewardship
The Talend MDM collaborative interface allows to search and author hub data and appropriate stewardship tools help manage the process of updating the data. The AJAX based interface is dynamically driven by Talend's Active Data Model. All validations found on the model instantiate themselves as validations on Web-based forms. Workflow process is easy to define and provides a strong set of tools for a team to collaborate on and create a trusted and reliable set of master data.

Oracle has augmented the capabilities of its Hyperion financial analytics software with new modules to help bean counters streamline specific financial management tasks.

The new modules -- Hyperion Disclosure Management, Hyperion Financial Close Management and Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting -- are all components in the latest update of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite of business intelligence tools, version 11.1.2, Oracle said on Wednesday..

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Read here ... How Could Cricket and BI Possibly be Connected?

Read Jason Gates, Sydney, Australia blog

the need to extract information from businesses for decision making has existed before the first widget came off the assembly line, and it is now a global requirement...BI is a global sport. Cricket on the other hand has been around just as long. It is believed it evolved from the game “Rounders” in the 16th century – the seed from which baseball was born as well - and became the national pastime in England by the 18th century. Cricket is played in many countries, but only a handful of countries really excel at the sport. Alright then it’s fair to say both BI and cricket are widespread, but it is very difficult to really excel at either given all the variables in the environment.

Another day another acquisition for IBM, since IBM and Oracle Larry Elision exchanged words about DB2. Initiate Systems is a provider of Master Data Management products and has very strong product line.
Initiate’s particular strengths lie in the health care and government sectors.

Oracle has Hyperion's Master Data Management Tool renamed "Data Relationship Management" (DRM), but not as many clients use this as Initiate systems.

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IBM Buying MDM Vendor Initiate Systems - CIO news

- IT World Canada

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In this following links Oracle website gives getting started tutorials with screenshots to learn and configure to use OBIEE.

This fundamental tutorial covers installing OBIEE in Windows, Using Repository and administration, BI Publisher, Oracle Delivers, Integrating Oracle's Hyperion Essbase with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, using EPM Workspace and Oracle Discoverer.

Installing the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Windows

All Oracle OBIEE Tutorials with Screenshots

BI Publisher
Oracle BI Publisher allows you to create reports from multiple data sources such as Oracle Database, Web services, RSS feeds, and Files.

Because BI Publisher is integrated with Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, you can also create the BI publisher reports based on Oracle BI Answers request, and also based on Oracle BI Server subject area.

BI Publisher

Discoverer
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer sets a new standard in this release by bringing together data from the multidimensional and relational sources with a single easy-to-use interface enriched with powerful features.

With Discoverer, you can create reports through drag-and-drop interface in a completely Web-based environment. Discoverer lets you collaborate and share business insight through email, and publish all your reports to a unified BI portal.

Oracle Discoverer