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    MDM

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    Master Data Management

    Project Management ChallengesWith A Changing Landscape

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    It is not t adancd stat otcnolog but ratr t prssing

    nds o businss tat as brougtmastr data managmnt (MDM)to t or.

    Contnts

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    Master Data Management

    And i IT is to proid t ngin or MDM, it is businsstat must b t drir and naigator to tak MDM to its dsird dstinations. T man

    complitis and rquirmnts o MDM can lad us to orlook a simpl trut: It is not

    and nr will b ITs job to tll t businss ow to run t businss. Tror it is up

    to t businss to dfn its own cor comptncis, its primar lrs o comptiti

    dirntiation and mak sur t MDM program springs dirctl rom ts. Tcnolog

    b itsl will work as dsignd; t gratr canc o ailur lis in lack o ortougt and

    t compting intrnal intrsts tat caus dlas, scop crp and projcts tat do not

    answr to prdfnd goals and masurs o succss.

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    Project Management Challenges

    with a Changing Landscape

    MDM

    Milestones

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    Master Data Management

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    MDM is not a tcnolog markt,

    but a businss capabilit.1 MDM is mor tan tcnolog; it is about

    data gornanc, data ownrsip and an ongoing program to maintain

    a singl rsion o t trut or critical corporat data.

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    Project ManagementChallenges with aChanging Landscape

    1

    T political natur o MDM plains the importance o data governance,but governance alone is not enough to undertake an MDM initiative. While large IT

    projects in the past, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise

    resource planning (ERP), have involved both IT and business teams and required both

    IT application implementation and change management, these projects ran in parallel,

    with the IT teams ocused on the implementation and the change management team

    preparing the users or the system.

    Project management or these projects through implementation and delivery has

    resided within the IT organization, with the business side providing the requirements.

    MDM reverses this paradigm. Business not only owns the requirements, they also own

    the data, the ongoing data stewardship and, most importantly, the project management

    o the MDM initiative.

    Thereore, to address the project management challenges in an MDM initiative,

    it is necessary to create a ramework including project management best practices,

    technological advances, data requirements and a blend o methodologies rom change

    management, business process reengineering and IT application implementation.

    Successully delivering projects on time has always been a challenge. Project

    management methodologies are well documented and continue to evolve to address

    the challenges. The Project Management Institute (PMI) and body o knowledge guide

    (PMBOK) are excellent sources o reerence material on the subject. With this in mind,

    six key points are vital to the success o your MDM project.

    Us succsss in projct managmnt,

    suc as a projct managmnt ofc

    (PMO), as part o our MDM initiati.

    Initiatives such as the ormation o a PMO to

    document and disseminate knowledge o what

    works within and across projects have real,

    quantiable benets. Companies that implemented

    successul PMOs achieved 80 percent ROI and 20

    percent reduction in project time.2 2Lrag sric-orintd arcitctur (SOA) and

    on-dmand tcnologis to acclrat projct

    dlir ia consolidation and rus o srics.

    In the early 2000s, both Gartner and Forrester Research put

    CRM project ailure rates greater than 70 percent. More recently,

    technological improvements such as on-demand deployment

    models are contributing to better implementation results: 59.3

    percent o on-demand CRM projects are implemented in three

    months or less compared to 15.6 percent or on-premise. Also,

    76.5 percent o on-demand projects are on budget, compared

    to 43.7 percent or on-premise.3 Additionally, SOA allows a

    number o technologies to work together in an MDM initiative.

    4

    B Tim OSullian

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    3MDM will sit data ownrsip to t

    businss sid o t organization, putting

    ocus on a data mtodolog.

    Prior to MDM, data needs were typically

    ullled by each department maintaining

    their own silo o inormation and/or

    requesting a snapshot o data rom a data

    warehouse maintained by IT. Centralized

    data was owned and maintained by IT.

    Data needs oten lack a methodology or

    preparation and analysis. But, at the core

    o the methodology is data.

    4Bring t popl aspct rigt up ront in an MDM initiati.

    Enterprise projects such as ERP involve a lot o change. Change management

    reers to the eort it takes to manage people through the emotional ups

    and downs that inevitably occur when an organization is undergoing massive

    change.4 At the core o change management is people.

    The preparation steps or a change management project include executive

    sponsorship, selecting a change agent, orming a transition team, perorming

    assessment activities and developing a transormational vision. The transitionteam serves as a liaison between the end users and the development teams

    and perorms tasks such as implementing processes and training users

    o the system. The change agent leads the change project and requires a

    mixture o good project management skills to keep projects on track and good

    leadership skills to motivate and evangelize or the project with passion.

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    Trat implmntation as a subprojct ld b IT, and pand t

    scoping stp wit principls rom cang managmnt and BPR.

    The crucial steps in the liecycle o an IT implementation project are

    typically: scope, planning, execution, control and closure.5 Flexibility,

    common sense and communication within this ramework are critical or

    successul project delivery.

    During the scoping phase, the systems and their requirements or

    eatures are identied and the business requirements are gathered. The

    project deliverables are broken down into manageable tasks, resource

    assignments and milestones. These projects are typically

    led and managed by IT.

    continued

    Both a business sponsor and an ROI case or the projectare needed or continued executive support during the liecycle. A steering

    committee working at a strategic level guides the project, and project

    management ocuses on the execution o the plan within the constraints o

    time, resources and scope. At the core o IT implementation is execution

    getting the project completed on time. Implementing MDM is still relatively

    new to organizations, compared to implementing ERP or CRM.

    MDM is a program inoling ongoing data stwardsip and procss

    rnginring, using lssons larnd rom businss procss

    rnginring (BPR).

    BPR is also an enterprise-wide undertaking to dramatically improve

    customer service, cut operational costs and make the organization more

    competitive. The preparation step involves building cross-unctional teams

    and identiying the objectives.

    The main activities break into the ollowing steps: Mapping and analyzing

    the as is processes, designing the to be processes and implementing

    the reengineered processes. Following implementation, BPR enters a

    cycle o continuous improvement through ongoing measurement and

    review. At the core o BPR are processes.

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    MDM is the ramework o processes and technologies aimed

    at creating and maintaining an authoritative, reliable, sustainable,

    accurate and secure data environment that represents a single

    version o the truth.6 This denition reinorces the point that MDM

    is a blend o data, processes and technology.

    Data implies data requirements, data analysis and data

    integration. Technologies are required to provide a data hub; data

    proling; data quality; matching/cleansing; extract, transorm

    and load; enrichment; and application integration unctionality.Processes are required or the operational workfows and rules or

    managing a single version o the truth.

    Extended processes are required when integrating the spokes,

    such as a marketing database, customer service, ERP and CRM,

    with the MDM hub.

    So what is at the core o MDM? Weve seen that in change

    management it is people, in BPR it is processes and with technology

    it is execution. In MDM, it is all o those, plus data and data

    ownership. And data ownership brings a lot o politics into the

    project management mix.

    When embarking on an MDM initiative, the initial step resembles

    a change management project where building a team (in this case,

    the data governance council), perorming assessment activities

    and dening the vision and objectives are the main undertakings.

    During this step, the organization should lay the oundation or

    the project management o the MDM initiative. As a best practice,

    business should have ownership and leadership or the MDM

    initiative.

    The change agent will come rom the business side, will possess

    both project management and leadership skills and will have overall

    project management responsibility. At the MDM Summit conerences,

    we heard a number o cases where ormer IT olks transitioned to

    the business side, and consultants were oten used to assist the

    organization in the transormation. In the next step, business asserts

    itsel as the owner o the MDM initiative and takes control o the

    specications and analysis o data.

    With data at the core o the initiative, a methodology or data needs

    and ongoing data stewardship or data preparation and analysis will

    have to be adopted. As companies already have data, technologies,

    business processes and rules or data management, the impact o

    the MDM initiative will need to be analyzed. Cross-unctional teams o

    business analysts, IT and data gurus will ollow a BPR methodology

    and design the to be processes and business rules.

    The implementation step will adopt the IT implementation

    methodology, and IT will have much clearer objectives within the MDM

    ramework.

    The nal step in the MDM ramework resembles BPR. The MDM

    initiative enters a cycle o continuous measurement and review

    as part o the ongoing data stewardship that is undamental to a

    successul MDM initiative.

    A blend o existing methodologies and best practices are directly

    applicable to MDM initiatives. Adopting a ramework will acilitatethe project management o the initiative.

    Underlying the MDM initiative is a data governance council.

    Data governance is a process ocused on managing the quality,

    consistency, usability, security and availability o inormation.7

    While data governance is a continuous eort ater the MDM

    implementation, it is also a crucial part o a successul MDM

    implementation and must be embedded into the project plan.

    The best advice on how to include data governance in the project

    plan is to include milestones that, when achieved, can be pointed to

    as data governance successes. This way the organization sees the

    impact o MDM and appreciates its importance when a continuous

    post-implementation eort is required.

    By adopting existing project methodologies and working data

    governance into project plans as milestones, a ramework or the

    project management o an MDM initiative emerges that addresses

    the political, technological and data stewardship challenges.

    No matter how small the initial MDM project is scoped, putting the

    MDM ramework in place rom the start will get the project o the

    ground successully. Regardless o which approach an organization has

    taken to date on an MDM initiative, it is possible to get back on

    track once the path orward is better understood and a ramework

    is adopted. Reerences:1. Hannah Smalltree. Gartner and Forrester reute master data management system claims.

    SearchDataManagement.com, December 5, 2006.2. Forrester Research cited by Paul R. Astiz. IT Project Management Oce. PMI-SSC

    presentation, October 12, 2005.3. Jim Dickie and Barry Trailer. On-Demand Versus On-Premise CRM: Are There Perormance

    Dierences? CSO Insights, 2006.4. Dunleavy et al., 1998, cited in Michelle M. Sieber and Fui Hoon (Fiona) Nah. A Recurring

    Improvisational Methodology or Change Management in ERP Implementation. Proceedingso the Americas Conerence on Inormation, 1999.

    5. Margo Visitacion. Project Management Best Practices: Key Processes and CommonSense. Giga Inormation Group, Inc., January 30, 2003.

    6. Mike2Wiki. Master Data Management Solution Oering. mike2.openmethodology.org,retrieved March 11, 2008.

    7. Alex Berson and Larry Dubov. Master Data Management and Customer Data Integrationfor the Global Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

    Tim OSullivan is a vice president and partner at Hub Solution Designs, Inc., a consulting rmthat helps its clients to develop and execute high-impact master data management and data

    governance strategies. He may be reached at [email protected].

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    MDMFramework

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    www.mdm-summit.com | 800.803.3424 | 212.803.6093

    MDM Summit Fall 2008 returns to New York City

    heres what our past attendees told us:

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    A fantastic conferenceon what is becomingthe next big thingin IT0Robert Zegrac,

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    Great Networking!Overall, a greatexperience!James Cisler,

    Manager, Master Data, Stryker

    This conference is agreat way to see whatvendors are doing.Mark Evans,

    Senior CDI Consultant,

    Experian

    Great Conference! Ienjoyed learning and

    networking with leadingvendors in this space.TJ Adler,

    IT Account Manager, AAA of

    Northern California

    This has been a verygood conference for meto get an understandingof MDM/CDI, toolsand technologiesavailable.Carol Young,

    Business Data Architect,

    Lexmark

    Good Conference.Lots of Information.Deven Dhulia,

    Solution Architect,

    Hewlett-Packard

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    On o t goals o mastrdata managmnt (MDM) isto maintain a singl

    The Intrinsic Value ofMaster Data Management

    accss point to spcifd data sts,

    thereby creating a single view o inormation. Whether customers, products or other

    entities, organizations may struggle to measure the actual benets o consolidating and

    centralizing data to have a single viewpoint o data. Beyond the ability to use a centralized

    access point to gain a better perspective o what is going on in the organization,

    organizations are always required to provide an account o the nancial benets o new

    IT initiatives. Within MDM, business intelligence (BI), business process management

    (BPM), etc., the immediate return on investment is not always seen. Unortunately, some

    organizations choose not to look beyond immediate nancial gains when seeking to

    implement new solutions or change the way they currently do business.

    B Lndsa Wis

    continued on page 10

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    TOP 5 JUSTIFICATIONS FOR MDM INITIATIveS

    1. Catalyzes market leadership and dominance.

    2. Provides increased ROI by leveraging and rationalizingexisting inrastructure.

    3. Signicantly increases shareholder value.

    4. Provides a disruptive technology or new business models.

    5. Enables compliance and regulatory reporting.

    LeSSONS LeARNeD Q4 2007

    Promote MDM as essential business strategy with IT deliverables

    to leverage high-value inormation used repeatedly across many

    business processes.

    Position MDM as an enabler of key business activities such as

    improving customer communication and reporting rather than

    as an important inrastructure upgrade.

    Begin MDM projects focused on either customer centricity or

    product/service optimization.

    Plan for multientity MDM solutions evolving from early adopter

    status into competitive business strategy during 2008-2009.

    STRATeGIC PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS

    Markt maturation: By 2012, the market or enterprise MDM

    solutions (sotware and services) as both strategic initiatives and toreresh aging legacy MDM capabilities will exceed $3 billion (U.S.).

    Skills: Throughout 2009-10, skill shortages will greatly infame

    project costs as demand or data stewards, enterprise data

    architects and individuals with data governance experience

    outstrip market supply.

    Analtics: During 2008, the convergence o MDM and business

    intelligence (BI) will accelerate as enterprises leverage MDM

    concepts in a BI context. Additionally, by 2012, inline and real-

    time analytics derived rom MDM-enabled aggregation o both

    transactional and historical data will have become a major

    source o sustainable competitive dierentiation or Global 5000

    enterprises.

    MDM conrgnc: By 2012, enterprises without an overall

    long-term MDM strategy run the ironic risk o building MDM silos.

    Bottom-lin planning assumption: Invest in data governance and

    architecture or long-term MDM sustainability and ROI.

    Excerpted rom Milestones on the MDM Roadmap or 2008-09 by the MDM Institute.

    MDM MilstonsAt t spring 2008 MDM Summit in San Francisco sponsord b T MDM Institut and DM Riw, Aaron

    Zorns, oundr and ci rsarc ofcr o T MDM Institut, addrssd t topic o Milstons on t

    MDM Roadmap in is knot basd on rsarc rom is Global 1000 clints. K fndings includ:

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    T managmnt omaster datatouches more than just the inormation that

    is maintained. By creating data repositories

    that refect business unctions, organizations

    can develop views o data that give users

    access to the inormation required to do their jobs

    eectively and eciently.To better understand the business benets o

    MDM, it is important to recognize an organizations

    general inormation inrastructure and how

    silos o data have been ormed within

    organizations, creating a splintered

    view o what is occurring within the

    organization. Then it is possible to

    understand the benets o the creation

    o a centralized repository o data

    regarding both the inormation accessed

    and the business benets that go beyond data.

    Fracturd Inormation viws

    Due to the nature o inormation architecture and the development

    o enterprise inormation systems, the general structure o data is

    that it exists in silos across the organization. Beore the concept

    o centralized data stores, many systems were developed to meet

    a business unction without taking into account the big picture.

    Consequently, with the addition o new systems, data storage

    volumes and the number o transactions grow exponentially. This

    means that in many organizations, several disparate systems

    exist that contain similar inormation but dont interact with other

    relevant systems within the organization. In addition to this lack o

    interaction, duplicate data may be processed in dierent systems,

    creating duplicate work or end users and dierent data structures.

    This adds to the diculty o looking or and identiying like data

    across the organization.

    The bottom line is that each system only gives a ractured

    view o what is occurring within the organization. For instance, a

    customer relationship management (CRM) system may not have

    all o the account inormation o their customers, rom buying

    habits and payment histories to product preerences. Dierent

    bits o inormation that reside in disparate systems, when brought

    together, create a ull view o the customer. Add to this data quality

    eorts to standardize data views and to create a consistent

    view o data across the organization, and the beginnings o MDM

    are created.

    Although MDM solutions give organizations central access

    points and a 360-degree view o data and entities, actual ROI is

    not always easy to quantiy. Ater all, quantiying better customer

    service or identiying a decrease in product cycle times and tying

    that to an MDM initiative may not be intuitive or organizations.

    MDM Bnfts eplord

    There are many benets or organizations choosing to implement

    an MDM solution that result rom creating a consolidated view o

    data. To identiy the ROI associated with MDM, some key benets

    should be highlighted that go beyond the consolidation o data

    toward increasing eciencies within organizations and lowering the

    cost o doing business.The most obvious benet o customer data integration (CDI)/

    MDM solutions is the creation o a single customer view. By creating

    a centralized access point o contact to customer, product or other

    orms o data, not only are organizations able to gain a better overall

    view o business entities and what is occurring with accounts, but

    also, data quality eorts become consistent. For organizations

    trying to attain one view o entities, the ability to ensure data quality

    throughout the organization means that consistency o business

    rules, data cleansing and the standardization o business processes

    will become an ingrained process within the overall environment.

    Despite the act that there is a constant ocus on business

    pains and a push to ocus on business rather than data, an

    organizations healthy business environment depends upon the

    data that supports it. Thereore, having strong data quality eorts

    in place helps organizations maintain healthy inormation systems,

    identiy how systems across the organization interconnect and

    enable better BPM. Although IT benets are important, business

    benets are also relevant. Using customer data as an example,

    end users can provide better service quicker, thereby increasing

    customer retention and satisaction.

    Because o compliance and the need to maintain specic data

    sets and output on a regular basis, MDM enables organizations to

    manage the processes essential to meet compliance requirements.

    This, in turn, translates into the ability to plan and budget more

    eciently. With a broader understanding o what is occurring within

    the organization, nancial processes can oer a more complete

    view o the organization.

    Finally, building an MDM solution enables organizations to

    develop and maintain a strong data governance program. Because

    all o the mechanisms have been put in place, data governance

    becomes a natural extension o an MDM implementation.

    Focusing on valu

    Whether by ocusing on business or IT, the values o MDM are

    numerous. Actual implementation o an MDM solution is process

    and resource intensive as well as continual based on the need

    or constant data quality and business process improvements.

    However, these eorts enable organizations to have a synchronized

    and 360-degree view o the data that helps drive their business

    success.

    A Supplement to DM Review Produced by SourceMedias Custom Media Solutions0

    Lyndsay Wise is an industry analyst or business intelligence. For more than seven years, shehas assisted clients in business systems analysis, sotware selection and implementationo enterprise applications. Wise also conducts research o leading technologies, productsand vendors in business intelligence, marketing perormance management master datamanagement and unstructured data.

    continued rom page 8

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    Todays options or ensuring an accurate and

    trusted view o data regarding customers, prospects,

    suppliers, partners, and sales rely on some orm

    o data integration to optimize and link databases

    rom CRM, ERP,--data warehouses, customer support

    and contact center systems, websites and other

    disparate sources. Unortunately, many o these

    implementations have only an internal view o

    inormation. They attempt to nd the truth about

    current conditions by consolidating and resolving

    only the data already maintained by the company.

    Every day, however, tens o millions o changes

    take place within customer, prospect and supplier

    organizations, and these changes are typically

    invisible to the data integration eort, resulting in

    highly incomplete and stale data. Even the largest

    companies nd that maintaining a continuously

    accurate view o their data is a daunting task. Too

    much is happening too ast, and they just dont

    have the systems and resources to keep up.

    Fortunately, theres a better way.

    The FIRST STeP:

    AGGReSSIveLy USe ReFeReNCe DATA

    Many leading corporations have taken a valuable

    rst step toward being able to maintain continuously

    up-to-date and accurate data. They have chosen to

    use a provider o external reerence data, such as

    D&B, to validate and correct their internal data. In

    most cases, they periodically re-submit the data to

    the external provider so new updates to the reerence

    inormation can be incorporated. This reresh also

    ensures each entity is accurately identied and

    the structural linkages to other entities, such as

    subsidiaries and parents, are also accurate.

    By treating reerence data as a snapshot,

    however, these companies typically rely on irregular,

    point-in-time interaction with the external data, and

    within days, the accuracy o their internal data

    and the value they gain rom that accuracy starts

    to diminish.

    The SeCOND STeP:

    MAKe The DATA AND

    The TeChNOLOGy INTeLLIGeNT

    In order to maintain continuously accurate data

    that can condently be relied upon to drive daily

    business processes and decisions, organizations

    must nd a way to link their internal data sources

    with their external reerence data provider so they

    can build a continuously updated set o master

    records.

    To do this requires a new, tight level o integration

    between the internal data integration technology,

    the external reerence data, and the data

    governance capability. Such an approach results

    in consistently better identication o entities

    and linkages, enables superior use o the data

    or targeting programs, and makes it possible to

    introduce capabilities or immediately inorming the

    business o any changes to key records, building ar

    more agility and responsiveness into the business.

    The ThIRD STeP:

    TAKe The SIMPLeR APPROACh

    I your approach has too many pieces, drains IT

    resources, takes too long to implement, and pushes

    out return on investment beyond the horizon, it will

    be extremely dicult to und, especially in todays

    uncertain economy. To get unding or a project

    today, you must demand a simple, solutions-driven

    approach based on the real-world business need

    or the data.

    At D&B, we believe that the simple approach

    delivers more value aster. Thats why weve built

    a pre-integrated layer between the reerence data

    and the data integration technology that makes

    implementation easy and can begin delivering value

    within a matter o weeks. Interested? Visit us at

    www.purisma.com.

    The Need for Intelligent Data And How to Get It

    Man critical compan initiatis, suc as top-100 customr programs, sgmntd markting and

    dmand gnration, customr-princ optimization, and supplir portolio managmnt, rquir

    intgratd, rsold, and optimizd data sourcs to nsur dcisions and actions ar basd on anaccurat pictur o t businss.

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    OveRCOMING COMPLex DATA ChALLeNGeS

    The diculty in showing quick success is that

    the data and necessary business rules/logic are

    very complex. Typically, the integration o data

    and ensuring its ftness or business use consume

    50-70% o project time and budget. Identiying and

    resolving entity inormation relating to customers

    and products is based upon extensive reerence

    data and knowledge bases that are not easily

    replicated. The ability to understand hidden

    inormation and relationships buried in data is a

    daunting computational challenge.

    In addition to correctly identiying inormation,

    uzzy matching o inormation within or across

    sources is a very complex and difcult task. Matching

    dierent sources- or even matching within a source-

    is made dicult by inexact representations o the

    same thing or similar representations o dierent

    things. Normal database joins cant overcome these

    natural language variations. Having sophisticated

    algorithms that overcome these problems, along

    with other common errors like nicknames, alternate

    rm names, dierent spellings, and data entry errors

    is a key attribute o a reliable and extensible MDM

    strategy.

    Perormance and accuracy o matching algorithms

    is paramount- missed matches or alse matches

    create risk, miss potential value, and signicantly

    reduce the trust o business data owners. Matching

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