Multi-Domain MDM: Kid in a candy store ?

Market is maturing from Customer Data Integration(CDI) to more holistic view of Master Data Management. Multi-domain MDM seems to be the buzz of the moment, even though when companies do not seem to have mastered the art of single domain MDM.

It is one of those conformist truisms which people will never dare contradict to your face. Go to any Business Intelligence, Master Data Management or Data Governance conference, website, blog or individual and they will all sing from the same hymn sheet here. Multi-domain is the MDM panacea.     - Duncan Slater, Accenture Information Management Services

 I could not agree more with Duncan's article on Enterprise MDM and Apple Pie. Organizations need to think through the people, process and technology aspects of MDM. It goes back to the piece I wrote about Data Governance. It is an industry which is being driven by vendors rather than the companies which need the solution. Vendors are selling big dreams for big revenue, and clients are like kid in a candy store.

The client needs to step back and evaluate their needs before they go shopping for buy-one-solve-all problems system.