A master data domain is an area of data critical to the organization that is managed at the enterprise level to support semantic consistency across the organization. Common master data domains include Customer, Supplier, Location, Channel, Partner, Product, Asset, and General Ledger Account. Multidomain master data is the mastering of critical data across multiple master data domains concurrently. Multidomain MDM encompasses related master data domains that are central to an organization's business and business processes. The observations that arise out of multidomain master data are of significant interest to business executives. For example, in a healthcare organization, the relationships among doctors and healthcare sites might reveal gaps in services.

Your MDM administrator configured the application you use within

Data Director

. The MDM administrator implemented the master data domains by building data structures with a name that is meaningful for your organization. For example, Patient is an implementation of the Customer master data domain. The data structure relates records within a tree structure, with a root record, nodes, and child records. The MDM administrator can use one or both of the following data structures: business entities and subject areas. Each type of data structure comes with its own set of views for

Data Director

. Ask the MDM administrator which one is used in your application, and follow the instructions in the matching part.

This guide is organized into two parts that tell you how to use the available views:

Based on your user role privileges, you can use the application to perform the following activities: