IBM Master Data Management

Version: 4.10.28

Experience: Cloud Pak for Data

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Description

IBM Master Data Management on IBM Software Hub seamlessly consolidates data from disparate sources to establish a single, trusted, 360-degree view of your record data. IBM Master Data Management is a multi-domain operational and analytical master data management (MDM) service that includes cloud-native, self-service analytics and matching tools that deliver business insights.

The core of IBM Master Data Management is its world class matching engine. Data engineers can configure and tune the matching algorithm using no-code configuration tools so that it meets the specific needs of your organization. The matching engine can be set up to use probabilistic, deterministic, or rule-based matching, or a combination of matching styles. Powered and guided by machine learning, you can also define separate matching weights and thresholds to tune the matching algorithm for each type of data in your system.

Data engineers can gather data from different systems across your enterprise into IBM Master Data Management to create enriched master data entities. When data engineers onboard new data sources, IBM Master Data Management automatically generates a customizable data model. By using the profiling and automapping capabilities, you can avoid having to manually map thousands of attributes. After your data is loaded into IBM Master Data Management, data engineers can then configure and run the intelligent matching engine to deliver a unified 360-degree view of your data.

After the matching engine creates master data entities, data stewards are empowered and aided to make decisions that measurably enhance data quality. Data stewards can review and analyze each asset's overall data quality scores and see a detailed view of the system's confidence in your master data entities. Using IBM Master Data Management's machine learning enhanced stewardship tools, you can identify potential data quality issues, create governance tasks, and remediate them to resolve the issues.

Business users and systems can access IBM Master Data Management to search, view, and analyze master data entities. With IBM Master Data Management on IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you can ensure that your users and systems have a total view of your data. With a seamlessly integrated, cross-solution cloud experience, your users can discover master data directly in the space where they expect to consume it. IBM Master Data Management also includes a rich set of APIs that your business applications can use to get direct access to trusted master data.

Building on IBM's history of strong and scalable MDM systems, IBM Master Data Management can ingest master data from your existing IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management deployments and bring it into Cloud Pak for Data where you can further shape, analyze, and work with your data for AI and data fabric use cases.

Licensing information

This service is included in the following licenses:

  • IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Enterprise Edition
  • IBM Cloud Pak for Data Standard Edition
  • IBM® Master Data Management

For more information, see Licenses and entitlements.

The Standard Edition license's VPC limitations only allow for an x-small-sized installation of IBM Master Data Management. For production deployments, you need an Enterprise Edition license.

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