Enterprises are increasingly going to be part of business ecosystems where collaboration between legal entities not belonging to the same company family tree will be the norm.
This trend is driven by digital transformation as no enterprise possibly can master all the disciplines needed in applying a digital platform to traditional ways of doing business.
Enterprises are basically selfish. This is also true when it comes to Master Data Management (MDM). Most master data initiatives today revolve around aligning internal silos of master data and surrounding processes to fit he business objectives within an enterprise as a whole. And that is hard enough.
However, in the future that is not enough. You must also be able share master data in the business ecosystems where your enterprise will belong. The enterprises that, in a broad sense, gets this first will survive. Those who will be laggards are in danger of being left out of business.
This is the reason of being for Master Data Share.
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