Hub Solution Designs Newsletter
"Best Practices in Master Data Management" Newsletter )
Vol. 2, No. 3 March 2009

Greetings!

Welcome to the March edition of "Best Practices in Master Data Management", published by Hub Solution Designs, Inc.

We hope you're enjoying the extra hour of sunlight every day!

In this issue, we've got:

  • Hub Designs and Caliber Services Announce HubCaliber Real-Time Access to D&B
  • Oracle-DNBi Connector Exports Information from Oracle AR to D&B's DNBi Platform
  • Seven Ways to Reduce IT Costs with MDM, by Ravi Shankar of Siperian

If you have any questions about Master Data Management or data governance, please feel free to ask them via our web site, or call us at (781) 749-8910.

Best regards --- Dan Power

Dan Power's Signature

Announcing HubCaliber Real-Time Access to D&B

Hub Solution Designs and Caliber Services have teamed up to offer HubCaliber Real-Time Access to D&B, enabling access to global D&B data from the Oracle E-Business Suite. This removes the complexity from integrating D&B with Oracle and offers a cost-effective way to access D&B data in real-time from Oracle's popular applications suite.

Dan Power, president of Hub Solution Designs, stated, "Accessing D&B information on over 140 million businesses globally allows organizations to increase the speed and accuracy of their decision making, while reducing their process costs and decreasing risk."

Oracle-DNBi Connector Exports Information from Oracle AR to D&B's DNBi Platform

Real-time information, from your internal Oracle Receivables system and from external sources like D&B, is crucial to making good credit decisions in today's fast-changing business environment.

Hub Solution Designs offers the Oracle-DNBi Connector, allowing you to export customer aging information to D&B's DNBi risk management application.

Oracle E-Business Suite (Release 11i) is a popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application for corporate finance departments. Most IT groups don't have the time or resources to create a custom interface between the customer aging information in Oracle Receivables and D&B's DNBi risk management application. But without that, you aren't getting the full value of your investment in DNBi.

Seven Ways to Reduce IT Costs with Master Data Management

IT managers are facing a dilemma given the current economic climate - despite budget cuts, companies don't expect reductions in the service levels provided by IT to the business. Under such circumstances, how do you maintain or improve service levels, and continue to run the business efficiently? Smart IT decision-makers are seeking out technology investments that can help to accelerate cost reductions and at the same time streamline business processes.

Master Data Management (MDM) is exactly this kind of investment. MDM ensures that critical enterprise data is validated as correct, consistent and complete when it is circulated for consumption by internal or external business processes, applications or users. A recent Gartner report on 2009 Enterprise Software Spending mentions that "the business case for many application and infrastructure initiatives are now aligning to cost reduction and risk management," and that MDM is key to transforming business processes to streamline them further in current market conditions.

But not all MDM technologies can provide these cost benefits. Only an integrated, model-driven, and flexible MDM platform with easy configurability can provide rapid time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership. Consider the following seven ways a flexible MDM platform can lower costs:

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