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management, to other company staff, or to the IT
Department:

– for stakeholders, Part One, The MDM Approach,
places data repository management in the strategic approach
of the financial valuation of the intangible assets of an IT
system. The tools and procedures for this valuation help the
company to better align with business regulations and
increase the transparency of data for business;

– for business units, Part Two, MDM from a Business
Perspective, details the operational contribution of the data
governance functions and deals with organizational aspects
of the MDM approach;

– for IT management, Part Three, MDM from the IT
Department Perspective, presents the modeling of data
repositories. These procedures are founded on sustainable
building blocks for data repositories and key
concepts: separation of concerns, rich data models, business
object lifecycles, Enterprise Data Architecture, and loose
coupling of data. This part also details the technical
integration of an MDM system with the rest of a company’s
IT systems.

Any reader who is anxious to understand the outline of
semantic modeling can, at any time, go directly to Chapter 8
“The Semantic Modeling Framework”. Even though this is
technically advanced, this chapter must nonetheless be
carefully studied by all actors in charge of information
systems.

The success of the MDM approach depends on the quality
of semantic data modeling. Even though this modeling
concerns IT and business users, putting it into practice
requires a high level of technical know-how, which means