MDM Can Challenge Traditional Development Paradigms

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I’ve been making the point in the past several years that master data management (MDM) development projects are different, and are accompanied by unique challenges. Because of the “newness” of MDM and its unique value proposition, MDM development can challenge traditional IT development assumptions. MDM is very much a transactional processing system; it receives application requests, processes them, and returns a result. The complexities of transaction management, near real-time processing, and the details associated security, logging, and application interfaces are a handful. Most OLTP applications assume that the provided data is usable; if the data is unacceptable, the application simply...


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