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.

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.

News
IBM Buying MDM Vendor Initiate Systems - CIO news

- IT World Canada

Infoworld News

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Master Data Management (MDM)

Take advantage of Data Source Views to integrate data from across the enterprise based on a Unified Dimension Model that consolidates data from heterogeneous, enterprise-wide data stores such as SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, SAP and Teradata. The UDM creates a holistic view of the business, helping end users gain enterprise-wide insight.

The Microsoft MDM solution will be built upon the solid foundations of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Communication Foundation, the ADO.Net Entity Data Model (EDM), Integration Services, BizTalk Server, and other key Microsoft technologies.

- SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

StreamInsight
The ability to monitor, analyze and act on the data in motion provides significant opportunity to make more informed business decisions in near real-time. StreamInsight Blog

Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Via Infoworld

Microsoft site

As companies grow and evolve, it becomes essential to manage master data across information silos that result from mergers and acquisitions, departmental initiatives, or legacy system proliferation. Data consistency, integrity, quality and accuracy can suffer creating a process that lacks integrity. Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management provides enterprises with a solution to build consistency within master data assets despite endless changes within the underlying transactional and analytical systems.

[via In 2 Hyperion Blog]

Got a question today about the new features on Oracle Hyperion DRM v11. In terms of this new release to be honest, most of the features had been pretty much the same as version 9.3.2.

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