Difference between Consolidation, Harmonization and Central master data man

[Former Member]

Hi ..Expertise

Consolidation is use to identify duplicate records and merge them into one record.

Harmonization is the process of pushing the new cleansed data back out to your partner systems.

Central master data management means you create records within MDM and then you distribute (Syndicate) this centrally created data to your Remote Systems.

My Question is her after Consolidation both Harmonization and Central master data management is doing the same thing i.e. sending the clean data to the other system. What is the difference between these two? Please explain me with an example or scenario..

[Former Member]

Hi Yugandhar,

Difference between harmonization and CMDM is that CMDM is creating data directly in MDM and maintaing single version of truth in MDM.But new data which we create in MDM can be guranteed to be in clean form as when it is created it has to pass through many validations and checked for duplicacy through match and then created .But as Data is maintained centrally local system may require data for transcation so as per request we syndicate data from MDM(maintained centrally )which is nothing but harmonization.Before implementing CMDM pre existing data in System is consolidated and Maintained in MDM.

Hope it will help you.

Thanks and Regards,

Neethu Joy