PM10: Master Data Management - The Impact of Big Data

This session looks at the evolution of master data and the emergence Big Data and Analytics and discusses how MDM is now fundamental in supporting traditional and big data analytical workloads. Also how MDM can be enhanced to exploit Big Data technologies. It looks a why MDM is growing in importance to help govern data in an increasingly distributed corporate data landscape and how big data platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL Graph databases provide new options for master data enrichment, master data integration, master data storage and master data hierarchy management. It also looks at how big data analytics can be used to create ‘smart’ master data, how master data can provide context for Big Data Analytical workloads and how enterprise information management tool suites can underpin both big data and MDM.

Master data management – where are we today?
The role of master data in an increasingly distributed data landscape
The arrival of big data, Hadoop and NoSQL DBMSs
New options for integrating and cleaning master data in a Big Data environment
Master data storage – Relational DBMS Versus NoSQL Graph DBMSs
Using Big Data Analytics to create ‘smart’ master data

Mike Ferguson is the Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies. An independent IT analyst and consultant, he specialises in BI/Analytics, big data and data management. He has over 35 years of experience with 27 years in BI/Analytics, 36 years in Data Management, 13 years in Smart Business and six years in Big Data Analytics on Hadoop and NoSQL. Mike works at board, senior IT and detailed technical IT levels on a strategy for BI/Analytics, technology selection, enterprise architecture, data strategy, MDM and Big Data. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Formerly a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited, the inventors of the Relational Model, he was also Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular master classes in Big Data Fundamentals, Big Data, New Technologies for DW and BI, Operational BI, Data Governance, Master Data Management and Big Data Management.