http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2009/11/10/the-differences-and-similarities-between-operational-mdm-and-analytical-mdm/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2009/11/10/the-differences-and-similarities-between-operational-mdm-and-analytical-mdm/comment-page-1/#comment-646 When MDM isn’t MDM? In Finance of course, well sometimes… Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:42:29 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/?p=566#comment-646 [...] I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users.  Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users.  Traditionally “Finance MDM” or mastering of hierarchy data and ledger/account data, for use in “down stream” or reporting systems has been equated to “analytical MDM”.  This use case of MDM has technology similarities to operational MDM, but there is no focus on (master data) process integrity, only on data quality.  I wrote on the differences between operational MDM and analytical MDM previously. [...] [...] I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users.  Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users.  Traditionally “Finance MDM” or mastering of hierarchy data and ledger/account data, for use in “down stream” or reporting systems has been equated to “analytical MDM”.  This use case of MDM has technology similarities to operational MDM, but there is no focus on (master data) process integrity, only on data quality.  I wrote on the differences between operational MDM and analytical MDM previously. [...]

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