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Notes on mastering data

Practical writing on MDM strategy, data governance, POPIA and GDPR, and building your master-data hub on your own database — the ideas we come back to when a programme has to work in the real world.

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MDM Strategy

Why unlimited domains change the MDM buying decision

Legacy MDM makes you ration domains and pay per base object, so programmes start narrow and stall. On every paid edition of MDM Studio, customer, product, supplier, location and every reference set live in one hub — and the decision shifts from "which domain can we afford" to "where do we get value next".

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POPIA & GDPR

POPIA and master data: masking, clearance and the right to be forgotten

How sensitive-data classification, per-user clearance and record-level suppression let a golden record honour privacy law without breaking downstream systems.

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How-to

Match tuning without the black box: blocking keys, comparators and thresholds

A plain-language walk through the three dials that decide who merges with whom — and how to move them with evidence instead of guesswork.

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Deployment

Own your hub: running MDM on your existing SQL Server or PostgreSQL

What it means to keep your master data inside a database you already run and back up — for data residency, cost of ownership and the exit clause nobody likes to talk about.

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Governance

From exceptions to outcomes: closing the data-quality remediation loop

Rules that only raise exceptions create backlogs. Typed resolutions, automatic re-validation and honest campaign progress turn findings into fixes people can trust.

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MDM Strategy

Reference data and crosswalks: the quiet backbone of interoperability

Governed code sets, immutable releases and crosswalks between source vocabularies are unglamorous — and they are what let two systems finally agree on what a value means.

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Governance

Explainable golden records: confidence, lineage and superseded-not-deleted

A stewardship team will only stand behind a golden record it can explain. Evidence-based scoring, full cross-reference lineage and a reversible lifecycle are how you earn that trust.

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