The Steps and Methodology of Identifying Master Data from Business Processes

In the fragmented and fast-paced word, enterprise data has become even more daunting. If companies are to survive in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, they must find ways not only to use but to exploit this useful enterprise data. As a popular technology, the state of the art MDM solution is claimed by the software company such as IBM, Oracle to provide the quality data for decision making. The MDM system is set up based on enterprise have finished informatization. However, the industrialization is developing in China, most of middle and small company have not information system. So a new design methodology that is purposed in this paper can capture master data from the enterprise business process, it´s utilized by all of enterprise whether have establish information system. To construct a MDM system, the metadata in a MDM system should be designed first. Therefore, a design methodology for metadata in MDM system is presented in this paper.