Master Data Management

I've just finished reading David Loshin's "Master Data Management". And I've been greatly edified by the experience. Within the corpus of this text, Loshin presents a comprehensive overview of the business problems inherent in ineffective master data management together with a thoughtful guide to solving these problems. In reading Loshin's book, one hears the voice of a wise and savvy practitioner. Yet, Loshin writes with an outstanding clarity and economy that, sadly, is too often absent in books of this nature. Whilst reading Loshin's excellent book, I was constantly reminded of the problems that are extant relative to master data management throughout the industry today. Loshin is clearly both an experienced consultant as well as a gifted expositor. We strongly recommend this excellent book to any folks today charged with making key data structures such as customer and product more readily accessible to their user community. Loshin provides an excellent and essential guide. And he comes across as a very nice and knowledgeable guy, to boot. God bless.

MDM is not really a fascinating subject for a book. But this manages to make it so boring that honestly, it was like swimming through treacle reading it. By the end of the first 20 pages I was wondering if 20 pages is all MDM deserves is there enough for a book?). For me the jury is still out, although this book will remain as a "reference" for me, so it continues to justify the purchase. Just dont expect it to be an interesting read .....

David Loshan has written a really great primer for anyone getting started in Master Data Management. He clearly explains the different architecture styles, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. He also describes how to go about a master data project, touching on key enablers required for success, including data governance. I highly recommend this book.

I want to thank David for writing the book which is easily the best in the market in MDM. It really helped me to understand MDM as a whole and give solid framework. This book has been and will still remain a foundation for my work. It manages to remain in the organisational level not alienating business people with IT jargon.

The concept of master data is fundamental to begin any type of data mining, and describes many best practices and practical advice on how to implement better data in any organization.