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Master data

Master data represents "data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions". The most commonly found categories of master data are parties (individuals and organisations, and their roles, such as customers, suppliers, employees), products, financial structures (such as ledgers and cost centres) and locational concepts.

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Alternative definition

TransactionalUnstructuredHierarchicalMetadata
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Master data management

Information technologyMaster data management
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Externally-defined master data

Universal Product Code
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Overview

Reference dataISO 8000International standardData qualityData portability
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Master data management

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Master data

Nodes17
Edges16
Triples55
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.117647
Components1

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Master data

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related to Further reading · 33
Master data → Alex, Allen, BeyeNetwork, Big Data Master Data, C2013-0-18748-X, C2013-0-18938-6, Cervo, Chen, Dalton, Data Governance, Data Quality Management, David, Defining Master Data, Effective Master Data Management, Elsevier, Entity Information Life Cycle, IBM Redbooks, Information Integration, ISBN, John
related to Externally-defined master data · 7
Master data → An, For, Some, This, Thus, Universal Product Code, UPC
related to Master data management · 5
Master data → All, Curating, IT, MDM, Without
related to Alternative definition · 4
Master data → An, In, It, What
is a · 1
Master data → Universal Product Code
see also · 1
Master data → Authoritative Legal Entity IdentifierCustomer

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data master business quality management information context transactions entities transactional within products reference entity organisation represents organisations provide customers isbn

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Master datais aUniversal Product Code0.90text
ordersinstance ofis only contained within transactional data0.80text
receiptsinstance ofis only contained within transactional data0.80text
is not housed separately.ISO 8000 is the international standard for data qualityinstance ofis only contained within transactional data0.80text
data portability in master datainstance ofis only contained within transactional data0.80text
Master datarelated to Alternative definitionAn0.60section
Master datarelated to Alternative definitionIn0.60section
Master datarelated to Alternative definitionIt0.60section
Master datarelated to Alternative definitionWhat0.60section
Master datarelated to Externally-defined master dataFor0.60section
Master datarelated to Externally-defined master dataSome0.60section
Master datarelated to Externally-defined master dataThis0.60section

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