Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information 1st Edition

Insights abound throughout this excellent and important book. For those seriously considering the efficacy of a comprehensive Master Data Management program in a modern enterprise, I would recommend this work. The authors do an excellent job of describing where Master Data Management fits in within a Services Oriented Architecture. And they also provide excellent technical guidance relative to integration and implementation. A minor, though necessary, criticism is that the book has a decided "IBM flavor" to it. This should be no surprise, as the book is published by IBM Press; and all of the authors are IBM employees. Nonetheless, the book is well written, well organized, comprehensive, excellent, and important. It is, in short, well worth the time, money, and effort; and the book does belong on the bookshelf of those truly committed to excellence in Enterprise Master Data Architecture.

The best text on enterprise master data management (MDM) in the marketplace today. Other reviewers have commented that this work is "the Bible" of MDM, and this reviewer agrees with this assessment at a deeper level than acknowledging its near-600 pages of content. In addition to providing an introduction to MDM, the authors walk the reader through architecting solutions and provide industry examples at a level of detail not found anywhere else. As a consultant, one aspect of this book that this reviewer especially appreciated is its true vendor neutrality. It is not until Appendix B that the authors mention commercial products in this space, and although this appendix might help readers understand what might be purchased as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, it is quickly apparent that there has been a lot of movement over the last two years.Admittedly, after reading this book for the first time, this reviewer understands why the authors recommend first reading chapter 1 ("Introducing Master Data Management") followed by chapter 3 ("MDM Reference Architecture") and chapter 9 ("MDM and Data Governance") in order to understand MDM, data governance, and how to implement MDM, but these chapters also contain long stretches of content sans diagrams that are often slowly drawn out, so reading chapters in order is recommended unless the reader is already knowledgeable about MDM and is looking for industry-specific examples, in which case chapter 6 ("PIM-MDM Solution Blueprints") and chapter 7 ("CDI-MDM Solution Blueprints") should be read, or the reader is looking to integrate MDM with other systems, in which case chapter 8 ("MDM Integration Blueprints") should be read, although chapter 8 has difficulty standing on its own and the reading of chapters 6 and 7 heavily relies on chapter 5 ("MDM Architecture Patterns").The authors present well MDM and service-oriented architecture (SOA) theory and how MDM enables SOA, and this reviewer especially appreciated their presentation on patterns and industry examples. MDM architecture patterns are broken down into (1) "MDM Hub Patterns", (2) "Information Focused Application Integration", (3) "Process Focused Application Integration", and (4) "Enterprise Systems Deployment", which are further broken down into the following, respectively: (1) "Transaction Hub", "Coexistence Hub", and "Registry Hub", (2) "Initial Load" and "Information Synchronization", (3) "Transaction Interception", "Messaging", and "ESB", and (4) "MDM-DW Integration", "MDM-BI Analytical System Integration", "MDM-ERP Integration", and "MDM-CRM Integration".The authors follow up their presentation on patterns by providing solution insight to New Product Introduction (NPI) for the consumer electronics industry, Global Data Synchronization (GDS) for the retail industry, and PIM-RFID for tracking and tracing product, as well as solutions to Master Patient Index (MPI) for the healthcare industry, Cross- and Up-Sell and Fraud and Theft for the banking and insurance industry, and Self-Service Website for the telecommunications industry. Along the way, the authors discuss business context, relevant business patterns, relationships between business patterns and architecture patterns, and provide dozens of diagrams that tie-in directly to the discussion, walking the reader through architecture components and the interactions between these components. Expect to spend some time reading through these examples. Well recommended text on MDM for a wide spectrum of reader needs from the high-level to the deep-dive, but be aware that data models, a critical aspect of MDM, are unfortunately not discussed.

Excellent book with very detailed content!It goes through MDM in a structured methodical approach.

I bought this book with the intentions that it would give me examples clear and crisp about Master Data Management. But each time I read a chapter, it was lacking the information that I was looking for.This book takes a point and talks about it for pages and pages together. Sometimes, this book put me to sleep. Maybe it is just me , all the reviews that I read were so positive about this book.

This is a high quality piece on a complex domain that contains strong architectural advice that should be readily applicable to most environments. I bought the Kindle version and it is annoying that on books like this they dont provide copies of the drawings you can reuse. But very good content, and clear callouts of things to be mindful of.It is however not a cookbook or Dummies guide - you have to have a need to get this deep into MDM which not a huge number of folks do.

They way I learn from books is to buy a Kindle version, highlight it and then consolidate the highlights from the Kindle notes page and review and review. I have done that with more than a few Kindle editions. I have now bought two IBM books and both only allowed me to highlight a very small amount of text before it starts truncating the text it moves to the highlights page in the Kindle Cloud. This breaks my learning method and make the book much less useful to me. I am not buying any more IBM books. I just read another book on Data Governance and it let me highlight as much as I wanted and it transferred it all to the cloud notes page. That book is getting 5 stars. Its content was better and its utility was far, far better. The PMI is another organization that is overly impressed with itself and it prints its PMP handbook on grey paper to prevent copying. After I read those reviews, I got the PDF version of their document and was able to do my thing. When security overcomes utility to this level... it has gone too far.

So much confusion around MDM, the architecture building blocks and components and this book really nailed it in a clear way. Well worth purchasing this book and will cite the book whenever I need to convey this confusing topic to others in a simplified way.

book has given very very detailed about Master Data Management Implementation and how to implement SOA on top of it.