September 10, 2008
MDM Alliance Group releases its MDM modeling procedures guidebook and prebuilt data models
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MDM Alliance Group releases its MDM modeling procedures guidebook and prebuilt data models

The open and neutral MDM Alliance Group (MAG) community announces the availability of the international version of its MDM modeling procedures guidebook and its first prebuilt data models. Originating from Orchestra Networks, a leading Master Data Management Software vendor, this guidebook has had further enhancement and contributions from the MAG members and describes a complete UML procedure to attain sustainable data modeling for the implementation of Master Data Management solutions.

Agile Solutions Ltd to become the first UK member of the MDM Alliance Group (MAG)

Agile Solutions, one of the fastest growing data integration and business intelligence consultancies in the UK, today announced it’s membership and support of the Master Data Management Alliance Group (MAG), the community promoting sustainable modeling procedures for delivering master data management projects.

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The MDM Alliance Group (MAG) rallies Systems Integrators and Consultants sharing a set of procedures for modeling master data and conducting MDM projects

In order to avoid reinventing the wheel, Pierre Bonnet(*), founder of the MAG Community, has initiated a complete Guide describing UML procedures to successfully model master data. This guide is freely downloadable (see the section Download).

Need to accelerate your MDM strategy?

Then do not reinvent the wheel but build up or buy pre-built MDM Common Information Models based on the MAG's modeling procedures

Starting from the initial Guide, each member of the MAG Community (systems integrators, consultants) enriches it by extending current procedures with their own business or IT added-value, in domains or specializations such as: data quality, data integration, workflow approval, modeling patterns, security, MDA (Model Driven Architecture), change management, regulation, etc.

Making your project compliant with the MAG procedures greatly reassures your company by securing state-of-the-art modeling techniques. Your company is not locked in a proprietary method and your systems integrators and consultants are able to concentrate their efforts on real added-value for your business.

The figure above shows the positioning of MAG's procedures as the basis to build up Common Information Models shared across the information system. The MAG's procedures ensure that pre-built data models and complementary governance methods relying on those basic procedures remove the barriers of proprietary styles of modeling. When building an operational database do you reinvent the normal forms of relational database? Surely not. So when building up a MDM solution the MAG's procedures provide company with the basis for the master data modeling. With help from those procedures the risk of heterogeneous data models depending on specific practices of each business users and IT specialists is strongly reduced.

Need help for identifying your reference data?

A data is a reference data if one of those conditions is met:

• The data is duplicated inside several systems.
  Ex: customer address, organizational structure, product description, etc. Existing systems generate and handle many of that type of reference data.
  
  
• The data is fed before being use by transaction systems.
  Ex: table of products’ labels customized by regions, technical and functional parameters, etc. The increasing of execution contexts (channels, partners, version of regulations, etc.) compels the utilization of a resilient and unified solution for feeding values of reference data by contexts.
  
  
• The data are fed differently during its life-cycle.
  Ex: product’s stock quantity, customer address, etc. The traceability of those values is required by regulations like Bale2, Solvency2, SOX, etc.

(*) Pierre Bonnet is founder of the MAG Community (MDM Alliance Group), expert in SOA/MDM methods, founder of the Sustainable IT Architecture Community, co-founder of Orchestra Networks leading software company in Master Data Management and co-author of the Praxeme Method.

MDM Alliance Group is member of the Sustainable IT Architecture Community, promoting key principles for overhauling information systems in a progressive way and with sustainable results.