Migrate IBM MDM to a Cloud MDM Solution
The choice to migrate IBM MDM to a cloud MDM solution is a good business decision. There are lots of benefits. Monthly updates. Flexible pricing and cost savings. Cloud products with rich and compelling product roadmaps. And more.
But migrating to IBM MDM in the cloud isn’t straightforward. Many companies fear MDM migrations and stay on their old, on-premises MDM products for far too long. It’s costly. The product roadmaps for on-premises MDM products have been anemic for years. And it’s holding you back from improved business insights.
There are several Cloud MDM solutions that offer modern MDM capabilities. Informatica Cloud MDM is one of those solutions. In addition to new MDM functionality, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) offers integrated data management capabilities that combine governance, quality, integration and cataloging, to aid your Master Data Management SaaS deployment. The unification of MDM in a single data management platform makes it easier to deploy and improves the quality and trust of master data significantly.
The Challenges to Migrate IBM MDM to Cloud Can Be Met
Unfortunately there are few tools in the market to migrate IBM MDM on-premises to cloud MDM solutions. Vendors don’t build tools to migrate from their product to another vendor’s product. Some solution providers do, but they have limited expertise and access to do so. Often those solution providers handle the technical side of migration. But they may lack the experience to handle the business side of an MDM migration. Requirements mapping. Decisions on how to satisfy old requirements with new functionality (because the new system doesn’t work the same way, and doesn’t have some of the same functions the old one did). These are business decisions best made by MDM experts.
That’s where experience pays off. An experienced IBM MDM consultant can successfully get you to a cloud MDM solution such as Informatica Cloud MDM by evaluating your business requirements, functional use cases, and then mapping them to the new cloud MDM. Next, that consultant helps you plan for requirement changes or MDM customizations, to ensure your old requirements are met by the new system.
Migrations aren’t just technical exercises. They are business projects. Ensure they are successful by hiring a consultant who’s actually designed and built IBM MDM and has implemented it dozens of times.
Q Spark Group - The Most Experienced MDM Consultant for IBM MDM Migration to the Cloud
Q Spark Group is a focused, innovative data consultancy. Our vision is to modernize and fuse data pipelines with analytic and AI usage to make the data-driven enterprise a reality. Cloud master data management is a big part of that vision. MDM delivers accurate and complete data to business users.
Q Spark Group has 25 years experience in building MDM software and implementing it. We built the original IBM MDM system and have migrated it to progressively more modern platforms several times. Cloud MDM isn’t our first experience with MDM migrations. And our experience can help you successfully get to IBM MDM Cloud painlessly, quickly, and cost-effectively.
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