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xiv Enterprise Data Governance

“The data explosion in terms of volume and transactions
has crystallized new paradigms such Event Driven
Architecture (EDA), Cloud Computing and other models such
SaaS. In such a massively distributed environment,
completely virtualized and ubiquitous, the quality of data,
their localization and transactional integrity will be
dramatically critical. Another dimension of business that is
magnifying the effect of the vectors described above is the
breathtaking acceleration in the swiftness of business
change that is forcing companies to rethink the manner in
which they manage their critical data and information.”

“Rethink it means making a conceptual leap into this new
economic model which means that companies will need to be
guided in order to successfully achieve their transformation,
thus increasing their competitive advantage.

The MDM Alliance Group is an initiative that will guide
any company of any size to go through the transition phase
in order to reach their goal. The modeling coupled with the
semantic approach is an extremely powerful tool to increase
the transparency of critical and valuable data while at the
same time reducing the complexity of the architecture and
multiplicity of interactions. The MDM alliance also provides
tools and business templates for accelerating the learning
and the operational effectiveness of companies. Bear in mind
that data, since the beginning of mankind, has made and
broken up empires and, from that view point, nothing has
changed except that today data is more important than ever
due to the speed of business change, which means that any
company must safeguard its highest competitive asset: data.”

Didier Mamma
Director EMEA Strategy & Development - Progress Software S.A.S.