• Consistency: the ability to utilize the same view of information to all relevant line of business applications (and hence, to their users)
• Accuracy: the implementation of technology and processes to ensure a high degree of accuracy in key data)
• Completeness: the ability to generate complete views around core master data as it is reflected across various systems (for example, a complete view of all interactions and attributes of a particular customer))

In many ways, MDM delivers what business users have expected all along: consistent, complete and accurate data. However, MDM does this within the complex heterogeneous application environments within every large enterprise. What is truly exciting about MDM is that it enables this capability of complete, consistent and accurate data "before the fact" (i.e. before the relevant data is used by an application) rather than "after the fact" (as in data warehouses).

Implementing Master Data Management solutions is a challenge that many enterprises both recognize and yet lack a roadmap for. Unlike traditional IT solutions which have fairly well defined processes and best practices, MDM is both new and its potential scope very vast.

The TheGlobalTech MDX methodology guides the successful delivery of MDM solutions for the enterprise across its entire lifecycle through a series of stages each of which deliver independent business value and yet build upon preceding work to ensure a continuous arc of solution delivery.

The MDX Methodology has been developed by TheGlobalTech over the past 2 years and implemented at customers in Financial Services, Manufacturing and Oil and Gas. We have also successfully used the MDX methodology across multiple MDM platforms including SAP and IBM.