Master Data

Master Data - "Master data describes and identifies both tangible and intangible things, such as individuals, organizations, locations, tangible goods and intangible services but also processes, laws, rules and regulations.

Typically we use identifiers to reference master data as in an airport code, a tax id, a passport number, a vehicle license number, a part number, a serial number and a credit card number; these are references to master data."

Peter Benson, http://www.dataqualitypro.com/data-quality-home/transparency-it-is-about-the-data-the-quality-of-the-data.html , 05 April 2009 10:07:35

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Master Data - Master Data are the "nouns" upon which business transactions take action. Master Data describes core entities of an enterprise that are used by multiple business process and IT systems. Examples are parties (e.g., customers, employees, vendors, suppliers), places (e.g., locations, sales territories, offices), and things (e.g., accounts, products, assets, document sets). See also Reference Data.

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Source: The Data Governance Institute, 15 December 2009 10:19:36, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/

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Master Data - Master data represents the parties to the transactions that record the operations of an enterprise. Two examples are customer and product.

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Source: Information-Management.com, 27 June 2010 08:53:54, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/m.html

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Master Data - Master data represents the parties to the transactions that record the operations of an enterprise. Two examples are customer and product.

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Source: DataMentors, 23 August 2010 09:25:18, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html

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master data - Master data is the core data that is essential to operations in a specific business or business unit. The kinds of information treated as master data varies from one industry to another and even from one company to another within the same industry.

Related glossary terms: Data Management_, golden record, master data management (MDM)

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Source: WhatIs.com, 24 August 2013 08:40:04, http://whatis.techtarget.com/glossary/Data-and-Data-Management