Master Data Management (The MK/OMG Press) 1st Edition

I've just finished reading David Loshin's "Master Data Management". And I've been greatly edified by the experience. Within the corpus of this text, Loshin presents a comprehensive overview of the business problems inherent in ineffective master data management together with a thoughtful guide to solving these problems. In reading Loshin's book, one hears the voice of a wise and savvy practitioner. Yet, Loshin writes with an outstanding clarity and economy that, sadly, is too often absent in books of this nature.Whilst reading Loshin's excellent book, I was constantly reminded of the problems that are extant relative to master data management throughout the industry today. Loshin is clearly both an experienced consultant as well as a gifted expositor. We strongly recommend this excellent book to any folks today charged with making key data structures such as customer and product more readily accessible to their user community. Loshin provides an excellent and essential guide. And he comes across as a very nice and knowledgeable guy, to boot. God bless.

David Loshan has written a really great primer for anyone getting started in Master Data Management. He clearly explains the different architecture styles, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. He also describes how to go about a master data project, touching on key enablers required for success, including data governance. I highly recommend this book.

Sure a lot of good info but has the following flaws:1) Not a lot of practical advice - feels that it is targeted towards management vs. architects. Sure, this is great but....2) The message is not concise - I feel that the same info could be expressed in fewer sentenses, probably the whole book can be shrunk to 50% of the volumeEvery MDM book has a message that MDM is not just about technology, it is about business process and people - so this message by itself is not that ground breaking. But MDM is also about good IT Architecture and applied technology - it is still important and needs to be covered in details to cover MDM as a whole.I would still advice readers that looking for a great MDM book refer to the "Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information (IBM Press) " bookhttp://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Master-Data-Management-Information-ebook/dp/B004UA78VK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1422203141&sr=1-1&keywords=IBM+master+data+managementAfter finishing the book I am reviewing - I went back to that

I want to thank David for writing the book which is easily the best in the market in MDM. It really helped me to understand MDM as a whole and give solid framework. This book has been and will still remain a foundation for my work. It manages to remain in the organisational level not alienating business people with IT jargon.

not that impressed..

A little dry, but this author knows his stuff. I have been able to apply his concepts to several projects.

I needed a reference for MDM and selected this book out of others. I think it is ok, and covers a lot of topics, however due to the fact that this discipline is constantly changing I found it lacked some concepts. I recomend it as a startup but definetly not enough when you get to an advanced level.

A little dated, but THE reference for overall master data management theory. This is a must have for anyone planning or contemplating a MDM program.