The document discusses the relationship between data governance and master data management (MDM), emphasizing that effective data governance is essential for successful MDM implementation. It outlines key elements of both concepts, including the importance of a single source of truth and involvement of business stakeholders to ensure data quality. The document provides guidance on when and how to initiate data governance processes to support MDM efforts.

1. MDM + Data Governance
Better Together

2. What is Data Governance?

3. Proactively managing your data, to
support your business achieve its
strategy and vision

4. Data Governance Framework

5. What is Master Data Management?

6. What is Master Data Management?
Master data is a single source of data that is critical for a
business to operate and designed to be used across
processes and systems. For example, customer, product,
employees, suppliers etc.
Master data management refers to the processes that
control/manage master data values to ensure
consistent, shared, contextual use.
A single version of the truth

7. DG Relationship with MDM

8. The Relationship with MDM

9. Can I do MDM without
Data Governance?

10. MDM Without DG
Data migration goes well…
Data migration fails...
Data is forced into new master data system...

11. Challenges
It will take longer
More people/resources needed
Higher costs

12. MDM With DG
Business involved in agreeing data
Data quality agreed, measured and improved
Data migration successful...

13. Better Together

14. When to Start?

16. Where To Start
Identify data domains in scope
Agree who will support DG and MDM
Identify Data Owners for each data domain
Definitions and Data Quality rules

17. How Much Data Governance When?
• Design Data Governance Framework
• Identify Data OwnersBefore
• Agree definitions
• Agree data quality rules
During
• Data Quality Issue resolution
• Amendments to definitions
• Extend Data Governance Framework
After

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19. Questions

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