Multidomain MDM Documentation at a Glance

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Each guide explains key concepts or helps you use a tool. Read the guide descriptions to determine if a guide contains the information you need.

The following table describes the guides in the

Multidomain MDM

documentation set:

Name	Description	User	Goal
Business Entity Services Guide	Explains how to use services to access business entities. Business entities can be people, places, or things, such as customers, locations, and products. Includes information about EJB, SOAP, and REST API calls. It also describes how to create external calls to third-party tools.	Technical Specialist	Configure
Cleanse Adapter Guide	Explains how to configure cleanse engines to work with Multidomain MDM . Use cleanse engines to cleanse, transform, and validate your master data.	Implementer MDM Administrator	Install
Configuration Guide	Explains how you configure Multidomain MDM , build your data model, and run processes.	Implementer MDM Administrator	Configure Administer
Data Controls Implementation Guide	Explains how to use Multidomain MDM data within a third-party application. Informatica Data Controls is an optionally licensed feature.	Technical Specialist	Configure
Data Director Implementation Guide	Explains how to configure a Data Director legacy application. Data stewards and business users use the application to access and manage master data. Additions and changes to master data can go through a business process workflow in which managers must approve the update. Legacy applications are based on subject areas. A subject area represents a collection of data that is treated as a unit from a business perspective. To implement a modern application based on business entities, see the Multidomain MDM Provisioning Tool Guide .	Implementer MDM Administrator	Configure (Legacy)
Data Director Migration Guide	Explains how to migrate Data Director applications from subject areas to business entities. Business entities are the preferred data structure for application.	Implementer MDM Administrator	Configure
Data Director User Guide	Explains how you can create, consume, manage, and monitor master data in a Data Director application.	Data Steward Business User	Use
Data Steward Guide	Explains how data stewards can organize and merge data by using the Data Steward workbench in the Hub Console . Data stewards often prefer to use a Data Director application.	Data Steward	Use
Infrastructure Planning Guide	Helps you plan the infrastructure and the architecture of the Multidomain MDM environment. The guide includes sample installation topologies.	Implementation Team	Install
Installation Guides	Explains how to install and set up Multidomain MDM in your selected database and application server environment. Multidomain MDM has separate Installation Guides for the following environments: IBM Db2 and Red Hat JBoss IBM Db2 and IBM WebSphere Microsoft SQL Server and Red Hat JBoss Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle WebLogic Microsoft SQL Server and IBM WebSphere Oracle Database and Red Hat JBoss Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Oracle Database and IBM WebSphere	Implementation Team	Install
Overview Guide	Describes the Multidomain MDM architecture and defines key concepts.	All	Configure Administer Use
Performance Tuning Guide	Helps you to optimize the overall performance of Multidomain MDM .	MDM Administrator	Administer
Provisioning Tool Guide	Explains how to configure business entities, business entity views, transformations, Data Director applications, tasks, and full-text search.	Implementer MDM Administrator	Configure Administer
Release Guide	Describes new features and enhancements, behavior changes between versions, and tasks you might need to perform after you upgrade from a previous version. Read this document carefully before you upgrade Multidomain MDM .	MDM Administrator	Upgrade
Release Notes	Lists fixed limitations, closed enhancement requests, and known limitations of the release. Read this document carefully before you upgrade Multidomain MDM .	MDM Administrator	Upgrade
Repository Manager Guide	Explains how you can validate metadata, copy objects between repositories, visualize the schema, and export a repository to an XML file. In Multidomain MDM , the metadata that is stored in a repository describes the data model and related configuration settings.	MDM Administrator	Administer
Resource Kit Guide	Explains how to use the collection of tools, samples, and other resources in the Multidomain MDM Resource Kit . For example, the kit includes tools for automation, batch processing, encryption, and reporting. The kit also contains the sample Operational Reference Store (ORS), a sample Data Director application, and the Services Integration Framework SDK.	Implementation Team	Configure
Sample ORS Guide	Explains the sample repository. The repository contains schema elements and configurations, such as the metadata for the data model, data cleansing mappings, and match rules.	Implementer	Configure
Security Guide	Describes how Multidomain MDM secures data from unauthorized access and tampering to protect information privacy and data integrity. Also explains how to configure users and roles, security providers, and password hashing.	MDM Administrator	Configure
Services Integration Framework Guide	Explains how to use Services Integration Framework (SIF) API calls. You can integrate Multidomain MDM with other applications, create applications that use Multidomain MDM data, or customize how Multidomain MDM works.	Technical Specialist	Configure
Upgrading from Version 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4	Explains how to upgrade Multidomain MDM version 10.x to the most recent version. For information about upgrading from a version older than 10.x, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.	MDM Administrator Technical Specialist	Upgrade

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Multidomain MDM Documentation at a Glance

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