With a variety of enterprise back-office, transactional, operational and reporting applications implemented in today's complex IT landscape in almost any organization, the quest for the single-source-of-truth of Master Data is akin to the search for a needle in the proverbial haystack. Multiple source systems that keep track of your vendors, customers, items, employees and other master and referential data abound in today's enterprise. The haystack has now grown into a full-blown corn-field.

There has never been an easy to implement and deploy solution for managing master data in the enterprise. Each source system caters to a specific set of attributes of master data. These various sources of master data are not optimally integrated and end up forming isolated pools of data. Users see data everywhere. Users trust nothing they see. IT is charged with providing a solution to the problem. IT now has a Plan B…

The Hydus Master Data Management (HMDM) tool is a quick to deploy solution that builds on the concepts of data integration and composite application development in a SOA basis. HMDM can integrate data from a wide variety of sources and cleanse, normalize, harmonize and synchronize master data elements regardless of domain, data formats or technologies to provide the enterprise with a single view of what the data consumer is expecting - the truth.

Built with both the data consumer and the data steward in mind and with built in workflows for ensuring optimal Data Governance, the Hydus MDM tool provides a basic framework from which enterprise wide data quality, data governance and master data management is achieved.