IBM MDM SuiteAccording to IBM site this product provides MDM services for various type of domains :- "customer, account, product, as well as other data types like location". They have a product called "IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management". So this is actually PIM but they call it "a core element of a customer’s master data management strategy". According to IBM website InfoSphere Master Data Management Server: "contains more than 800 business services out-of-the-box to manage both complex and simple master data inquiries and updates." One thing which looks interesting is IBM's strategy of going multi domain in MDM: all types of master data, whether it is Product or Customer data. Oracle Master Data Management SuiteOracle Customer Hub Customer data integration (CDI) solution. It provides following: A prebuilt extensible global master data model for customer information Services to maintain customer data across various systems and processes Capabilities to acquire, synchronize, and federate data Change and audit controls for data governance Oracle Product Hub To centralize all product information from heterogeneous systems. It provides:- Import workbench for improved data quality External transaction views. Mass maintenance capabilities to manage updates to multiple products Product sales configurations for manufacturing and service industries Change control capabilities Rich user interfaces for unstructured content management Predefined operational attributes with unlimited extensibility Oracle Site Hub It is a location mastering solution. It provides:- A prebuilt extensible data model (site master). Unlimited number of predefined and user-defined attributes for consolidating site-specific information Manages updates to multiple sites Site mapping and view using Google Maps® Prebuilt integration with Oracle Inventory, Oracle Property Manager, and Oracle Enterprise Asset Management. Web services to share data and integration with various systems. Hiperion data relationship management Previously known as Hyperion Master Data Management. To build consistency within master data assets. According to Oracle website "it provides the industry's first data model-agnostic master data management solution built to enable financial and analytical master data management in dynamic, fast-changing business environments". For more information please visit Oracle Website:- http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/master-data-management/index.htm SAP Master Data ManagementSAP NetWeaver is foundation for all SAP applications. It is SAP's SOA platform suite. NetWeaver is built upon open standards and inter-operate with, technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Sun Java EE, and IBM WebSphere. It can be extended by Microsoft .NET of Sun Java EE. Standard architecture for SAP MDM can have a centralized MDM server and clients connected it. Clients are connected to MDM server through SAP's Exchange Infrastructure using XML documents. Clients can also connect without Exchange Infrastructure. Implementation scenarios
Book - SAP NetWeaver for dummies By Jeffrey Word preview with limited chapters is available on google books. Sun MDM suiteThe Sun MDM Suite is based on the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Sun MDM is developed in open source. It includes an infrastructure layer, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) layer, MDM layer, and portal layer. The MDM layer includes the core MDM products. Following is description of these products:- Sun Master Index Defining reference data structure, storage and maintanance of this reference data. Sun Data Integrator For extracting legacy data from existing systems, transforming it and loading it into a master index database. Sun Data Mashup Engine Data aggregation from multiple sources to provide a single view of enterprise data. The Sun Data Quality and Load Tools Profile, cleanse, standardize, match, and load the reference data. It uses "Sun Data Integrator" for loading. Following are the tools related to data quality & loading:- Master Index Standardization Engine, Master Index Match Engine, Data Profiler, Data Cleanser, Initial Bulk Match and Load Tool I have summarized Sun MDM suite for the benefit of readers here but I have not described them in more detail because a very good documentation is availabe at Sun's site. For more information please refer:- http://developers.sun.com/docs/javacaps/products/sun-mdm-suite.jsp |