There is an explosion of interest in Master Data Management (MDM) as organizations race to reconcile disparate reference data across operational and analytical systems. Early MDM adopters—many of whom presented at TDWI’s recent MDM Insights event—have already taken the first steps towards deploying MDM solutions to harmonize customer, product, supplier, organization, financial, and other core data sets. This Webinar will summarize the key findings from the presentations and discussions that took place at the TDWI event, providing practitioners contemplating an MDM initiative a roadmap for delivering a successful solution. » Read more

While most companies agree data quality is important, many have trouble understanding how to identify specific issues, or how to quantify improvement. Without being able to answer questions such as: “How bad are the data, really?” or “How do we know how much our data have improved?” many companies turn their attention to other efforts, hoping data quality will somehow get swept up in the process. This 3-hour do-it-yourself workshop provides several common, but insightful Six Sigma tools that can help improve and control existing or new data quality efforts. Attendees will learn how to maximize results derived from these tools by learning how to quantifiably show data quality improvement to stakeholders. » Read more