As any other IT enabled discipline Master Data Management (MDM) continuously undergo a transformation while adopting emerging technologies. In the following I will focus on five trends that seen today seems to be disruptive:
MDM in the Cloud
According to Gartner the share of cloud-based MDM deployment has increased from 19% in 2017 year to 24 % in 2018 and I am sure that number will increase again this year. But does it come as SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)? And what about DaaS (Data as a Service). Learn more in the post MDM, Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and DaaS.
Extended MDM Platforms
There is a tendency on the Master Data Management (MDM) market that solutions providers aim to deliver an extended MDM platform to underpin customer experience efforts. Such a platform will not only handle traditional master data, but also reference data, big data (as in data lakes) as well as linking to transactions. Learn more in the post Extended MDM Platforms.
AI and MDM
There is an interdependency between MDM and Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI and Machine Learning (ML) depends on data quality, that is sustained with MDM, as examined in the post Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Quality. And you can use AI and ML to solve MDM issues as told in the post Six MDM, AI and ML Use Cases.
IoT and MDM
The scope of MDM will increase with the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) as reported in the post IoT and MDM. Probably we will see the highest maturity for that first in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), also referred to as Industry 4.0, as pondered in the post IIoT (or Industry 4.0) Will Mature Before IoT.
Ecosystem wide MDM
Doing Master Data Management (MDM) enterprise wide is hard enough. But it does not stop there. Increasingly every organization will be an integrated part of a business ecosystem where collaboration with business partners will be a part of digitalization and thus we will have a need for working on the same foundation around master data. Learn more in the post Multienterprise MDM.
Liliendahl on Data Quality 