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changes to master data. Master data management services
can also be used to maintain and control the distribution
of reference data that should be maintained at the central
level for an organization. As discussed in prior sections, the
MDM data repository can also include the various inferences
drawn during discovery and experimentation type of work
done in the big data platforms.
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The
MDM services
components also enable information
exchange between the content management services,
big data services, and information management services,
thereby providing a rich data services ecosystem that is
consistent and integrated across the enterprise.
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Information management services
provide ETL services
primarily for batch and real-time integration of structured
data, and EII services for federated query access to structured
and unstructured data distributed over disparate data
sources. ETL services support the initial and incremental
extract, transform, and load of data from one or more source
systems to meet the needs of one or more targets, such as a
data warehouse and MDM system.
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The
content management services and big data services
provide
mechanisms to capture, aggregate, and manage unstructured
content in a variety of formats such as images, text documents,
web pages, spread sheets, presentations, graphics, e-mail,
video, and other multimedia. The Hadoop and map-reduce
technologies provide the ability to search, catalogue, secure,
manage, and store unstructured content and workflow services
to support the creation, revision, approval, and publishing
of content. In conjunction with the MDM data repository and
the metadata contained therein, now you can have the ability
to identify new categories of content and create taxonomies
for classifying enterprise content. Other aspects like records
management and storage management are part of the content
management and big data services. Records management
services include management of the retention, accessing
control and security, auditing and reporting, and ultimate
disposition of business records. Storage management
services provide for the policy-driven movement of content
throughout the storage lifecycle and the ability to map
content to the storage media type based on the overall value
of the content and context of the business content.
The discovery and experimentation type of workloads that uses a combination
of data platforms and associated services can effectively leverage the MDM services
components to discover non-obvious relationships between various data entities such
as those that are part of the same household but have different name and address
information and between people and organizations. The taxonomy hierarchy and
