SetFocus Specialty Seminar

Introduction to Master Data Management for the Enterprise, presented by CSI - 1 day

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DESCRIPTION
More complex and demanding business environments are forcing more heterogeneous systems environments. Data integration is required to synchronize master data in order to get a single, consistent view of an enterprise’s core business entities—customers, products, suppliers, and employees. MDM solutions enable enterprise wide master data synchronization. Given that effective master data for any subject area requires input from multiple applications and business units, enterprise master data needs a formal management system. Business approval, business process change, and capture of master data at optimal, early points in the data lifecycle are essential to achieving true enterprise master data.

This course will review MDM concepts, rationales, organization, architecture options, and implementation milestones, yielding best practices for reducing redundancy, duplication, and inconsistency of data.

You will learn:

• Justification: How MDM has direct business impact through the facilitation of more accurate and timely business decision making and improved application delivery ability, all at a lower cost
• Responsibilities: How to organize both business and technical roles for the determination and implementation of master data rules
• Leveraging MDM to effect workflows essential to business process improvement
• How to take the conformed dimension concept to earlier points in the data lifecycle through MDM architecture choices
• What offshoots of MDM, including customer data integration (CDI) and product information management (PIM), do for their specialized areas

INSTRUCTOR William McKnight is senior vice president of Information Management at Conversion Services International. William functions as strategist, lead enterprise information architect, and program manager for complex, high-volume full life-cycle implementations worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence. Many of his clients have gone public with their success story. William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, widely quoted on information management issues, and has authored more than 150 articles/white papers and given over 150 seminars. His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won best practices awards. William is a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA. William may be reached at wmcknight@csiwhq.com. To learn more about CSI visit our CSI Partner Page

TIME & DATE May 30, 2008 9AM - 5PM EST WHO SHOULD ATTEND Data architects Project managers Business data owners and data stewards Business users of enterprise master data  PRICING Intro to Master Data Management $850 USD SetFocus Discount Offering Take Intro to Data Warehouse PLUS Intro to Mastering Data Management for the Enterprise for a total of $1500.     Course Registration and Pricing LOCATION In addition to being held at SetFocus Corporate Headquarters this course will be available online via The GRID. SetFocus Headquarters 4 Century Drive Parsippany, NJ 07054 View Map REGISTRATION Course Registration and Pricing