Accelerate the implementation of your master data management project by understanding and rationalizing your data faster
Many organizations are embarking on master data management (MDM) projects in order to construct an enterprise-wide infrastructure for harmonizing data (such as customer, product, supplier and employee data). The goal is to provide the "single version of the truth" necessary to drive consistency throughout the organization. Regulation and compliance drive MDM projects, as does the need to improve business agility to enable faster and better business decisions.

To achieve success, organizations must understand and rationalize information assets. In other words, they must know what information exists, where it resides and how it relates. These critical steps of metadata discovery and mapping - along with providing a prototype of the integrated environment - ensure the ability to provide more complete and accurate metadata and maximize the value of the MDM effort.

Sypherlink’s products were designed to meet these needs, providing automated metadata discovery and mapping, rapid prototyping and seamless integration into existing data management tools. Together, they accelerate project implementations and increase returns from MDM projects.

Automated Data Discovery & Mapping
Using its patented heuristic matching technology, Sypherlink Harvester automates data discovery and mapping, enabling organizations to quickly understand what information is available and where field-level relationships exist between multiple data sources. Often overlooked, these steps are the most complex and resource-intensive parts of any MDM initiative - and where many fail.

Rapid, Virtual Prototyping
MDM projects require business process changes throughout the organization. Creating a virtual prototype of a consolidated repository is an invaluable tool to facilitate those changes. Sypherlink’s Exploratory Warehouse enables IT to virtually access data from multiple sources and rapidly prototype the final data repository. This prototype helps to mitigate project risk while enabling the ability to:

• Build a business case – Prototypes allow stakeholders to visualize the value a consolidated repository can provide, supporting necessary buy-in.
• Accelerate MDM implementation – Prototypes provide a common foundation on which business and IT can communicate, ensuring alignment and minimizing costly rework.
• Facilitate the addition of new data sources – Prototypes ensure new data is accurate and non-redundant before integration.

Integration into Complementary Technology
Sypherlink’s tools optimize the performance of integration applications by providing an accurate understanding of the underlying data and metadata. The field-level mapping relationships generated by Harvester can be seamlessly integrated into leading MDM tools such as IBM, Oracle, ASG and Teradata, making integration simple and transparent. And because Sypherlink automates the tough task of prototyping, the chosen solution is more reliable, accurate and complete in a fraction of the time.