Benefits of Code-Free Integration for MDM

Data is the foundation of today’s businesses; however, the infrastructure needed to maintain the integrity of this data is growing exponentially more complex.

Consider an average business transaction that crosses dozens of separate systems before it’s complete. Each of these systems shares customer, product, location, and financial data across multiple domains.

Keeping this data accurate, accessible, and consistent across all of these systems and domains is time consuming and inefficient if you have to open a ticket with IT every time a master data change request is submitted. 

Many organizations still use manual change management processes to deploy master data to subscribing applications. This approach is both slow and error prone. Typically, an administrator exports master data changes into a flat file, formats the file per the requirements of each subscribing application, and then loads the changes while crossing their fingers that there aren’t any errors.

In today’s data-dependent business environments, speed and efficiency are everything, which makes code-free integration a game changer for master data management.

What is code-free integration?

Code-free integration takes the onus of change management off of the IT team and allows business users without programming knowledge to quickly manage master data changes across all subscribing systems and applications. 

Solutions such as EPMware that offer code-free integration provide an intuitive user interface that allows business users to click a button and propose master data changes. Once it’s time for the downstream application to receive that change, EPMware initiates communication with the downstream application, waiting for a successful (or unsuccessful) communication on every change in the request. 

This seamless connectivity ensures that the administrator and the requester of the change are aware of when the change is communicated to the subscribing application and what, if any, errors are keeping changes from making their way downstream. More importantly, the admin and users can visualize a production view of their metadata in EPMware in real time.

EPMware uses REST API-based technologies to communicate with subscribing applications, and where an adapter is not yet available, a custom integration can easily be configured to export a flat file or integrate with a data warehouse. 

What are the benefits of code-free integration?

The traditional approach to integrating master data changes involves hours—sometimes even weeks—of planning, configuration, and implementation. And even after all that effort, a single wrong keystroke can introduce an error that isn’t found until the file is finally loaded and transactions fail. Of course with any metadata load errors, the result is always a delay in data loads, creating a delay in reporting and business decisions.

With the high volume of data organizations are inputting, processing, and analyzing daily, manual master data management is not only inefficient, but it’s also a liability. Code-free integration cuts configuration and deployment time to minutes, and that’s just one of the ways the right solution can streamline and simplify your master data management processes.

Increase efficiency.

A plug-and-play code-free integration solution enables even nontechnical users to set up the master data management solution and deploy changes to subscribing applications on day 1. 

Reduce strain on technical resources.

When you aren’t depending on your IT team to write code or build integrations, configuration and master data deployments can be done in minutes instead of hours, days, or weeks. Standardized integrations supported by a vendor such as EPMware allow your financial admin team to bring true value to your organization's financial system investment instead of playing data monkey.

Improve master data quality.

Automating more steps in the master data configuration and deployment process not only reduces human error but also frees up time for the IT department to build governance validations to improve the accuracy and integrity of your master data.

Enjoy lower cost of setup, training, deployment, and maintenance.

A solution that provides code-free integration, such as EPMware, is ready to launch almost out of the box. Designed with nontechnical users in mind. EPMware integrates seamlessly with target applications and deploys master data across all subscribing systems with just a few clicks.

How does EPMware empower business users with out-of-the-box integrations and more?

Enterprise master data management needs are changing faster than IT resources can adapt. Code-free integration bridges the gap between technical needs and business users to maximize productivity and utilize the skills that are available.

EPMware's out-of-the-box, code-free integration capabilities empower business users to take control of their own master data management so they don’t have to wait for the IT team to update, configure, and deploy changes. 

With prebuilt adapters for the most popular EPM, CPM, and ERP technologies, EPMware’s deployment engine seamlessly pushes master data to all upstream and downstream subscribing applications, so there is no question whether your data is up to date. EPMware’s real-time validation scripts provide an additional layer of data integrity protection by verifying all technical metadata requirements are met prior to deployment.

EPMware is the only solution that provides a unified master data management and data governance platform. So, not only do you get all of the benefits of code-free integration across subscribing applications, but you also have the peace of mind that all change requests have the appropriate approvals and enrichment before they are deployed.

Ready to say goodbye to manual master data management?

Nothing kills innovation faster than the phrase, “But we’ve always done it this way.” Code-free integration reduces the risk and inefficiency of manual master data management and helps ensure the data your organization relies on is accurate, accessible, and consistent across all of your business systems. 

Get your complimentary copy of our e-book, Navigating the Enterprise Data Governance Landscape, to learn more about how master data management and data governance work together to centralize, standardize, and rationalize your master data for accurate, actionable analytics and business intelligence.