Master Data Management and Data Governance

Part I. Introduction to Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration ; Chapter 1. Overview of Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration; Chapter 2. MDM: Overview of Market Drivers and Key Challenges; Chapter 3. MDM Applications by Industry; Part II. Architectural Considerations ; Chapter 4. MDM Architecture Classification, Concepts, Principles and Components; Chapter 5. Data Management Concerns of MDM Architecture: Entities, Hierarchies and Metadata; Chapter 6. MDM Services for Entity and Relationships Resolution and Hierarchy Management; Chapter 7. Master Data Modeling; Part III. Data Security, Privacy and Regulatory Compliance ; Chapter 8. Overview of Risk Management for Master Data; Chapter 9. Introduction to Information Security and Identity Management; Chapter 10. Protecting Content for Secure Master Data Management; Chapter 11. Enterprise Security and Data Visibility in Master Data; Part IV. Implementing and Governing Master Data Management ; Chapter 12. Building Business Case and Defining Data Governance Framework for MDM; Chapter 13. Project Initiation; Chapter 14. Identification, Matching, Aggregation and Holistic View of the Master Objects; Chapter 15. Beyond Party Match: Merge, Split, Groups and Relationships; Chapter 16. Data Synchronization and Integration Styles; Chapter 17. Data Governance: Frameworks, Information Quality Processes and Metrics; Chapter 18. Additional Implementation Considerations; Part V. Master Data Management: Market, Trends and Directions ; Chapter 19. Master Data Management: Markets and Trends; Chapter 20. MDM Roadmap: Where Do We Go From Here; Appendices ; Appendix A. List of Acronyms; Appendix B. Glossary of terms; Appendix C. Regulations and Compliance Rules Impacting Master Data Management Projects

Alex Berson is a Director of Technology for a global management consulting firm. Dr. Berson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences and M.S. in Applied Mathematics, and is an internationally recognized expert, author, educator and practitioner who has over 20 years of experience in information technologies focusing on data warehouse systems architecture, including design and implementation of systems and applications in the areas of data management, data warehousing and data mining; transaction processing; middleware, client/server distributed computing; and object technologies. Alex Berson is an active member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and many others. Hes also an advisory editor for the McGraw-Hill Professional Books division. He has published numerous technical articles in trade magazines, and is a best-selling author of a number of professional books including 'Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP'(with Steve Smith); Client/Server Architecture; SYBASE and Client/Server Computing(with George Anderson); and APPC: Introduction to LU6.2. These books are published internationally, and had been translated in many languages including Chinese and Korean. His latest book, Building Data Mining Applications for CRM, is scheduled to be published in December 1999.