Data Management Solution

Providing a single view of products, customers, partners, and suppliers through master data management.

Organizations today are dealing with problems related to the enterprise management of "master" data. The creation and transmission of data describing customers, locations and products continues to grow exponentially. No single enterprise application has become a true "system of record" for master data in the enterprise.

In addition, data quality continues to emerge as a legitimate business issue driven by inter-operability and compliance requirements. Adding to the complexity, a new generation of browser-based portal-style applications drives requirements for more discrete "master" data sets to be delivered in real time, quality assured.

Lack of single consistent enterprise view of core business entities, customers, vendors, materials, products, charts of accounts, inventory, bills of material, installed base, locations and employees severely impacts the enterprise.

• Inconsistent view of core business entities across the enterprise
• Poor synchronization of data related to core business entities between various business applications in the enterprise
• Poor business decisions/ reduced value of business intelligence and warehouse implementations
• Reduced return from enterprise application implementations and consolidations
• Significant compliance & risk management exposure (HIPAA,Sarbanes-Oxley)
• Poor customer relationship management
• Poor margins, inventory issues, inability to exchange " product" data with partners
  
  The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite^TMdelivers the capabilities to build and operate the data integration services that deliver a single view of master data for the enterprise. Organizations can now establish and maintain a single logically correct view of master data entities, such as customers and products. With extensive connectivity to exchange data from anywhere in the enterprise, Ascential provides all the functionality required to locate, standardize, and enrich master data; match core entities correctly across enterprise sources; and format the output for specific application requirements. Ascential's Iterations® Methodology provides a roadmap of the process steps, skills, and deliverables to ensure successful design and implementation. Master data integration services built with Ascential can be inserted into complex architectures comprised of a variety of transactional, operational, and analytical applications.
  
  The Ascential Enterprise Integration Sutie^TM includes:
  
  
• Ascential MetaStage^TM Maintain and Coordinate meta data about master data throughout the enterprise.
• Ascential ProfileStage^TM Investigate and monitor the quality of the data attributes associated with master data
• Ascential QualityStage^TM Create and maintain logically correct keys for master data as well as master data hierarchies, consistently applying the business rules for master data for the enterprise. QualityStage is also used to validate and enrich master data with third party data reference files.
• Ascential DataStage^TM Acquire, transform, and deliver master data throughout the enterprise. This includes both batch and transactional interfaces that understand database management systems, enterprise application interfaces as well as industry standard transaction definitions. All the information services associated with the master data solution can also be published as web service and consumed by a variety of applications through out the enterprise
• Ascential DataStage^TMTX Automated approach for ensuring the quality, transformation and integration of complex transactional and operational data structures based on industry standards and regulatory compliance requirement in a wide variety of execution environments, including event-driven, message-based, large volume batch and on-demand.
• Ascential Enterprise Edition^TM allows deployment of the all ProgileStage, QualityStage and DataStage jobs in massively parallel environment.
• Ascential Iterations®Methodology High level process steps for design and implementation of master data integration services
  
  Master data integration services powered by Ascential deliver significant benefits to the enterprise.
  
  
• Mitigate the risk of implementing and consolidating enterprise business applications
• Improve customer service/ revenue opportunities
• Optimize inventories/improve margins
• Ensure compliance
• Make better decisions from one version of the "truth"