Chapter 9. Future Trends in MDM

Although Social MDM itself is a significant step in the way that MDM is currently used, it represents only one step in the ongoing evolution of Master Data Management. In this chapter, we explore some of the emerging technical trends that will enhance and enrich MDM implementations with new capabilities and new ways in which to realize business value from MDM technologies.

In the first section, we start with the heart of most MDM systems: entity resolution and matching. We also discuss how we are extending our ability to accurately match entities with additional sources of information, in particular how we can operate at lower likelihood values typical in associating social media data with structured, information ...

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