Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data: Master Data Management and Information Integration - Softcover

Talburt, John R.; Zhou, Yinle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128005378 ISBN 13: 9780128005378

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2015

Synopsis

Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data walks you through the ins and outs of managing entity information so you can successfully achieve master data management (MDM) in the era of big data. This book explains big data's impact on MDM and the critical role of entity information management system (EIMS) in successful MDM. Expert authors Dr. John R. Talburt and Dr. Yinle Zhou provide a thorough background in the principles of managing the entity information life cycle and provide practical tips and techniques for implementing an EIMS, strategies for exploiting distributed processing to handle big data for EIMS, and examples from real applications. Additional material on the theory of EIIM and methods for assessing and evaluating EIMS performance also make this book appropriate for use as a textbook in courses on entity and identity management, data management, customer relationship management (CRM), and related topics.

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Review:

"...good as a textbook and also as independent reading for professionals in the sector. The references where the solutions and methods treated were originally presented are included so that they can be found for further reading...a highly recommended book." --Computing Reviews

"... covers MDM in a traditional manner, that is, maintaining current entity identity information, very well, and it can be recommended to advanced MDM practitioners (and advanced students of databases and data warehouses)." --Computing Reviews

About the Author:

Dr. John R. Talburt is Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) where he is the Coordinator for the Information Quality Graduate Program and the Executive Director of the UALR Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ). He is also the Chief Scientist for Black Oak Partners, LLC, an information quality solutions company. Prior to his appointment at UALR he was the leader for research and development and product innovation at Acxiom Corporation, a global leader in information management and customer data integration. Professor Talburt holds several patents related to customer data integration and the author of numerous articles on information quality and entity resolution, and is the author of Entity Resolution and Information Quality (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011). He also holds the IAIDQ Information Quality Certified Professional (IQCP) credential.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128005378
• ISBN 13: 9780128005378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254