10 Best Practices for Product Information Management

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7 February 2008

Andrew White

Organizations at any stage of their product information management programs can learn from others' experiences, and should adopt these 10 best practices for success.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0		Introduction
2.0		Best Practice 1: Clarify What You Mean by a 'Single View of the Product'
3.0		Best Practice 2: Get High-Level Sponsorship and Business Buy-In for PIM
4.0		Best Practice 3: Develop a Business Case That Includes Revenue Enhancement and Cost Reduction, as Well as Business Agility and Compliance
5.0		Best Practice 4: Understand the Different MDM/PIM Capabilities Needed, Whether You Buy or Build
6.0		Best Practice 5: Establish Strong Data Governance
7.0		Best Practice 6: Identify PIM Use Cases and Plan for Evolving Requirements
8.0		Best Practice 7: Examine Implementation Styles for MDM/PIM
9.0		Best Practice 8: Ensure That Data Quality Is Part of Your PIM/MDM Implementation
10.0		Best Practice 9: Deliver Value Early and Often, and View PIM as Part of Larger MDM and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Strategies
11.0		Best Practice 10: Align the Technology Architecture of PIM With Your Longer-Term Information Infrastructure Strategy
12.0		What You Need to Know

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List of Tables

	Table 1.	Where the Natural Stakeholders for PIM Reside

	Table 2.	The Business Drivers for Creating Product Master Data

	Table 3.	The Three MDM Use Cases and the Characteristics That Define Them

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	How Product Data Permeates the Enterprise

	Figure 2.	Look for Business-Defined Opportunities That Drive the Bottom Line

	Figure 3.	Criteria for Evaluating PIM Technologies

	Figure 4.	Analyzing Roles and Associated Data Use Can Help Identify Participants for the Governance Program

	Figure 5.	Examples of Different Use Cases Supporting Two Organizational and Business Structures

	Figure 6.	PIM Is Part of MDM and Is Focused on 'Things' Within an Enterprise That Are Procured, Moved, Made or Sold

	Figure 7.	The Technology Infrastructure for PIM Overlaps With Components of the Wider Information Infrastructure

Product Data Management Software
Master Data Management

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