Master Data Management

by David Loshin

The key to a successful MDM initiative isn’t technology or methods, it’s the stakeholders in the organization and their complex ownership of the data that the initiative will affect.Master Data Management equips you with a deeply practical, business-focused way of thinking about MDM―an understanding that will greatly enhance your ability to communicate with stakeholders and win their support. Moreover, it will help you deserve their you’ll master all the details involved in planning and executing an MDM project that leads to measurable improvements in business productivity and effectiveness.

Genres: Architecture

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2008

Reviews

[Chris Via]

A fine introductory overview to a field in which I now find myself after years and years of web app development.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Serviceable, informative, but not an engaging style. The graphs and the logical structure of the information is fine, but this driest and most pedestrian of software engineering topics is explained in the most neutral and bureaucratic tone you could imagine. It's probably one of the better works on the topic, I imagine. I read it for work, not because I really wanted to.

[Steven De Landtsheer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I regard David Loshin as one of the few real experts within the Data Management space. So when you want to learn about Master Data Management, I don't think you have the option, not to read this book as it is simply a reference in itself. Therefore, on the plus side, this book is really well structured and thought out. It gives you an excellent introduction to the topic and introduces you to all the aspects of MDM in a balanced high level manner. On the minus side, I have always had some trouble with the writing style used by David Loshin. I find it very heavy handed and complex. I understand that, as an expert, you take care of expressing your thoughts in a very precise manner, choosing your wording very carefully. This should not however make the text difficult to read and understand. This is what happened to me on several sections where you find yourself struggling to discover that you do understand but that all could have been explained in a simpler way.
So, in summary, a recommended reference work on MDM but not the easiest read ...