Archive for February, 2012

This is the last blog post from the three series description of the process for implementing MDM within an organisation. The next three steps explained below follow on from the previous blog post. Generate and test the master data In this step the master data is taken from the source systems, various ETL routines are [...]

Following from the previous blog post, this post will explain the next four steps in the process for implementing MDM within an organisation. Implement a data governance program and data governance council The data governance council should be assembled from people who know the data and have the authority to decide to decide what should [...]

This blog post and the next two posts, which will be published in a few days, describe the process of implementing MDM within an organisation. The order of steps used to describe the process in these blog posts should not be treated like a recipe where you  have to follow it in a certain order [...]

ETL (Extract Transform Load) is mainly used for Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses. It is mainly used for moving data from one platform or system to another also known as data migration. Within ETL tools you can configure the sources of data, how it should be transformed, standardised, matched and merged and finally loaded into [...]


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The purpose of this blog is to help you learn/expand on your current knowledge about the various domains which are part of Data Management. This includes Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Integration etc.


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I am Manjeet Singh Sawhney and work as an Information Management Consultant for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in London (UK). Prior to TCS, I have worked for Accenture, Tibco Software and Initiate Systems (now IBM). My areas of expertise are Master Data Management (Customer, Product, Reference), Metadata Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Profiling and Data Analysis. I am using this blog to share my knowledge and hope that you will find it useful. Thanks for visiting.


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