Businesses make major investments in analyzing and processing business transactions. To date, however, the subject of managing the framework for these transactions - the master or reference data about business entities such as products, assets, customers, and suppliers has been neglected.

This can hinder efforts to analyze business trends, rationalize and simplify divergent master data across the business, provide meaningful context to a corporate information portal and ultimately can cause transactions to fail.

KALIDO Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management Suite

The problem is caused by inconsistent, incomplete or inaccurate representations of master data items across multiple analytic and transactional systems in the business. It is most acute within multi-national companies who, because of frequent mergers and acquisitions, brand realignment and differing local market conditions, face issues of reconciling and consolidating this shared data on an ongoing basis.

KALIDO® Master Data Manager (MDM) is an enterprise-class, adaptive data management system for harmonizing master data held by KALIDO Dynamic Information Warehouse (DIW) and other analytical and operational systems.

As an integral part of the KALIDO Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management (DWLM) Suite, it provides tight integration with KALIDO DIW, enables the import and export of master data in XML format to other systems, and the publishing of master data to corporate information portals. MDM complements existing corporate meta data management solutions and data quality tools.

KALIDO MDM has been designed to solve a broad range of master data management problems ranging from managing master data for data warehouses over time to harmonizing and updating diverse master data from various business and operational support systems.

With regard to Data Warehousing Lifecycle Management, KALIDO MDM is primarily geared at solving key data warehousing related master data management problems.