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capitalizing on state-of-the-art pragmatic modeling
techniques. Beyond is the MAG initiative which is a way to
not only avoid the blank page but mostly to provide added
value from all of us, as long as we all play the fair game of an
open collaborative effort.”

Xavier Fournier-Morel
Co-author of the SOA Architecture Guidelines

“MAG is a community Pierre Bonnet founded to share
MDM Modeling procedures and pre-built data models. The
MDM Alliance Group publishes a set of pre-built data
models that include the usual concepts (Location, Asset,
Party, Party Relationship, Party Role, Event, Period [Date,
Time, Condition]) downloadable from the website. And some
more interesting models like Classification (Taxonomy) and
Thesaurus organized across three domains.

Although we may disagree about the semantics I do agree
with him that adopting this approach can help us avoid
setting up siloed master databases…unfortunately often
evident when using specific functional approaches such as
PIM (Product Information Management) and CDI (Customer
Data Integration) modeling.”
James Parnitzke-James
James is a hands-on technology executive, trusted partner,
advisor, software publisher and widely recognized database
management and company architecture thought leader

“The MDM apparatus (it’s a lot more than just
technologies), is a fundamental component to guarantee that
a Company Architecture is translated to an efficient IT
system. Moreover, without a correct MDM vision
implemented at the four levels (semantic, logical,
organizational and technological, see the Praxeme aspects) a