Data-Rich Business Process Integration: Master Data Management streamlines process integration. Utilizing IT resources for the execution of data-rich business processes requires an effort to standardize data types so that disparate IT systems can communicate according to a set of reference definitions. The diverse functions of your IT systems can furthermore span across great spaces and bridge multiple service providers. For instance a sales process requires the integration of sales systems, customer, and suppliers. In order to accomplish straight through processing, data types must be standardized, allowing different systems to recognize and process information in an appropriate manner.

Master Data Management Bridges Systems: Standardize your company’s data definitions through master data management. Master Data management formalizes the types of data that your company uses in its operations, allowing for consistency to be enforced in how data is represented and used within IT systems. By modeling your data as master data entities and attributes, information becomes more open to being shared along your processes by different IT systems. The boundaries between companies and service providers are knocked down – the formalized data can be accepted by any system designed to recognize its master data type. This allows processes to transcend their limits, and enables more efficient, failsafe IT design.