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Master Data Management

SOX Audit Evidence for EPM Metadata Changes: What Auditors Ask For and How to Produce It

on October 20, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
A chart of accounts change never touches a transaction. Nobody posts a journal, and no balance is entered. Yet after the change, a cost center rolls into a different line of the income statement, an account moves from one reporting group to another, and the consolidated number the board reads is different. That is why auditors treat the dimensions, hierarchies, and mappings in your EPM...
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Master Data Management

Microsoft MDS Replacement for Finance Master Data: Profisee, Semarchy, Purview, or Finance MDM?

on October 20, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Microsoft removed Master Data Services from SQL Server 2025. It stays supported in SQL Server 2022 and earlier, and Microsoft has not shipped a successor. For most companies, that means the chart of accounts, cost centers, legal entities and mapping tables that have lived in MDS for a decade now need a new home, chosen on a database upgrade timeline rather than a finance timeline.
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Data Governance

Why Mapping Governance Is the Hidden Accelerator of Modern Finance Transformation

on December 10, 2025 | By Abhi Nerurkar
How EPMware Eliminates Excel Chaos and Unifies ERP → EPM → Data Warehouse Reporting
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Data Governance

EPMware vs. SAP MDG: Choosing the Right Financial Master Data Platform

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Data Governance

Why Financial MDM Is Replacing Traditional MDM in the Office of Finance

For today’s finance teams, trust in data isn't optional—it’s the foundation of financial reporting, forecasting, and compliance. But in many organizations, the critical metadata that supports these activities—like cost centers, legal entities, charts of accounts, and scenario mappings—is being managed in tools that were never designed for Finance. As organizations grow more complex and financial...
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Data Governance

Empowering Finance: EPMware Puts Your Team in Control of Master Data

on March 14, 2025 | By Abhi Nerurkar
For many CFOs, the thought of implementing a new Master Data Management (MDM) solution comes with concerns—particularly around the complexity of ownership and maintenance. Many finance leaders have experienced firsthand the frustrations of IT-heavy solutions that require technical expertise beyond their teams’ capabilities. At EPMware, we’ve designed our platform to be different—one that finance...
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Data Governance

Comparing Informatica MDM, Tibco EBX, Semarchy xDM, and EPMware

To differentiate financial MDM capabilities among Informatica, Tibco, Semarchy, and EPMware, it's important to focus on features specifically tailored to financial data management, rather than broader enterprise MDM capabilities.
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Master Data Management

Why It's Important to Have a Single Source of Truth Across All Your Enterprise Data

on November 28, 2023 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Data has become the force driving today’s business strategies, which means data isn’t just for data scientists anymore. Whether your role is finance, sales, marketing, IT, or customer service, access to consistent, reliable data is a critical factor in your ability to do your job effectively and make strategic decisions. In larger organizations, data has a tendency to become siloed within...
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Data Governance

Best Practices for Data Governance in 2024 and Beyond

on November 8, 2022 | By Abhi Nerurkar
In late October, a server misconfiguration at Microsoft left an endpoint publicly accessible with no authentication required. The lapse reportedly exposed 2.4 terabytes of data, including invoices, product orders, signed customer documents, partner ecosystem details, and other business transaction data.
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Master Data Management

How MDM and Data Governance Work Together and Why You Need Both

on August 11, 2022 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Data drives today’s businesses, but that data is only useful if it is accessible, actionable, and accurate. Unfortunately, in many organizations, master data isn’t managed well, leading to inconsistencies and overlaps in data records across business applications. Over time, these quality issues devalue your data and impede critical business insight. A master data management strategy that includes...
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