MDM Workflow: How to Get Started

MDM Workflow: How to Get Started

The key components of an MDM workflow include steps for data quality management, data governance and data stewardship.

  • Step 1: Identify sources of master data, object structure and attributes.
  • Step 2: Define standardization and any custom processing logic.
  • Step 3: Create a database for reference data.
  • Step 4: Define governance and security framework.
  • Step 5: Generate profiling, cleaning and loading tools.
  • Step 6: Extract data from different systems.
  • Step 7: Analyze and clean data.
  • Step 8: Load matched data to master database.
  • Step 9: Build and deploy the MDM project.
  • Step 10: Define connectivity to external systems using business processes and web services.
  • Step 11: Create necessary presentation layers.