The ”buy vs. build” option is well known within many disciplines not at least around your IT application stack. The trend here is that where you in the old times did a lot of in-house programming today you tend to buy more and more stuff to prevent reinventing wheel. Yesterday there was a post on that on Informatica Perspectives. The post is called Stop The Hand-Coding Madness!.

We certainly also see that trend when it comes to Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. And my guess is that we will see that trend too when it comes to the master data itself.

What has puzzled me over the years is how a lot of organizations spend time on and makes their personal errors when they type in the name, address and other core data about individuals and companies they do business with or alternatively letting us business partners type in…