Master Data Management (Beta) overview
Master Data Management (Beta) on IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service seamlessly consolidates data from the disparate sources that fuel your business to establish a single, trusted, 360-degree view of your customers — digital twins. Master Data Management includes cloud-native, machine learning-assisted, self-service analytics and matching tools that deliver better business insights.
With Master Data Management, 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.
The Master Data Management service includes two connected and complementary user experiences:
- Master data configuration for data engineers to prepare and configure master data. This experience includes:
- Configuring the master data system.
- Refining the generated data model.
- Uploading or connecting data sources.
- Mapping data into the model.
- Running Master Data Management service’s powerful matching capability to create master data entities.
- Configuring and tuning the matching algorithm to meet your organization’s requirements.
- Master data explorer for business analysts and data stewards to search, view, analyze, and export master data entities.
The Master Data Management service on Cloud Pak for Data as a Service also includes a rich set of APIs that empower your business applications with direct access to trusted data.
Configuration of the Master Data Management system is a data first process. Every part of the experience starts with your business’s data, wherever it lives. Data engineers can gather customer data from different systems across your enterprise. When they onboard new data sources, Master Data Management automatically generates a customizable data model so data engineers won’t spend weeks manually mapping thousands of attributes.
Once your data is loaded into Master Data Management, data engineers can run matching to create enriched master data entities. Master Data Management includes an intelligent matching algorithm that you can tune and train over time. The matching capabilities deliver a trusted, unified source of customer data.
For information about getting started using Master Data Management, see Getting started with Master Data Management.
Prerequisite services
The Master Data Management service is deeply integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. Watson Knowledge Catalog provides automated cataloging to discover, classify, prepare, and share data. For more information about Watson Knowledge Catalog, see Watson Knowledge Catalog on Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.