Master data management and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3: Who can benefit

Data management topics have garnered plenty of attention in the ERP space in recent years. And for those organizations that run Microsoft Dynamics AX, a related domain will be taking center stage with the upcoming release of AX 2012 R3 - Master Data Management, or MDM.

Gartner defines MDM as "a technology-enabled discipline in which business and IT work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency, and accountability of the enterprise's official shared master data assets." MDM helps to reduce inconsistencies and errors across those assets, and, according to Gartner, it achieves that goal by using a consistent and uniform set of identifiers and extended attribu...

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