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Testimonials xix

In this book IT architects will find, the keys, a guide in
the analysis and structuring in four layers (semantic,
pragmatic, logic and software) and a collaborative approach
(business/IT) which will help make their first MDM project a
‘success story’”.

Olivier Sommerard
Technical Director – KHIPLUS

“Today a large amount of energy is expended to maintain,
for better or worse, the quality of data. Whether this be in
terms of data cleansing or data integration. But it is also
necessary to take into account from the SOA point of view
the wasted effort in the access management to the data. One
can only fear that duplications of codes on the lower layers of
SOA can only lead to the same in the upper layers.

From the point of view of reference data (data used or
produced by several applications), from the moment a drive
is made to increase quality and reduce costs, standardization
is mandatory. Time and time again this principle has been
shown to be true in many industries. Without doubt it is
time that the software industry takes into account this
standardization at the level of reference and master data
management.

The logical consequence of this statement is that we can
only wish for the normalization of reference and master data.

In this framework, the processes of the MDM Alliance
Group, that is to say the semantic modeling of the MDM and
the pre-built data models, will almost certainly become,
progressively, a must. An ambitious goal, certainly difficult
but promising, being that it offers off-the-shelf models.

Even supposing that these pre-built models cannot be
used as they are with our respective IT systems, they do
have the advantage of giving us the opportunity to