Sun Microsystems has initiated a community called Mural to collaboratively develop a Master Data Management(MDM) solution based on open standards and open specifications. MDM, according to Wikipedia, "comprises a set of processes and tools which centrally and persistently define the non-transactional entities of an organization (also called Reference data). The objective of MDM is to collect from, and supply to various processes, unique instances of each entity."
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives are well suited for creating an MDM solution. Mural is an open source community built around the idea of managing the silos of data that enterprises generate each day. Mural contains several community projects creating technology to help enterprises manage structured and unstructured data spread across many systems on heterogeneous platforms. The community contains components that enable organizations to build a true MDM solution and generate a single view of distributed data.
Mural is the only end-to-end, full-feature open source MDM solution available today. It also builds upon many years of successful application in vertical markets such as health care, retail and the governmental sector.
Sun Microsystems invites JavaOne 2008 attendants to stop by the Mural booth and take a look at the features and possibilities of this exciting technology. Presentations will take place from Tuesday May 6th through Thursday May 8th.
Products
- Mural will continue to evolve with additional input from the community and is available in a commercial form with the Sun MDM Suite release scheduled for June (will also be part of Java CAPS R6 in June).
- Mural Preview is now available. It is directly downloadable from http://mural.dev.java.net.
Projects
- Master Index Studio: Provides the capability to create any domain-specific master index through the matching, de-duplication, merging, and cleansing of data from various data sources.
- Data Integrator: Provides extract-transform-load (ETL) and extract-load-transform (ELT) capability and supports a wide variety of data sources including relational as well as flat files, spreadsheets, XML, and newer sources such as HTML tables and RSS feeds.
- Data Quality: Features matching, standardization, normalization, profiling, and cleansing capabilities.
- Data Services: Provides server-side data mashup capabilities having multiple forms such as exposing data services for enterprise mashups and providing real-time views of information for master data customers.
- Data Migration: Provides the ability to migrate database objects across database instances and types.
- Mural builds upon the GlassFish, Open ESB, and NetBeans open-source communities.
Licenses
- Mural, GlassFishESB, GlassFish and NetBeans are free to download and free to deploy
- Mural projects are available under CDDL license from http://mural.dev.java.net
- Mural is available in a commercial product suite - Sun MDM Suite
Top Ten Things You Should Know About Mural
- Enhanced customer experience. Helps customer retention, aids cross selling, delivers the right customer experience and manages the risk associated with them
- Reduced cost and complexity. Maintain master data at a single location and execute transactions locally
- Reduced errors. Master data represents accurate and consistent information
- Increased visibility. Accurate report generation using master data as a source
- Enhanced auditing and compliance. Data changes are accurately registered and available for reference
- Open source. Mural is an open source community and is built to support Sun's complete open source stack - "Metal to Mural"
- Reduced time to market. Encourages data level collaboration between organizational hierarchies
- Single integrated toolset. Integrated toolset to extract data from source systems, clean, profile, match, and load master indexes
- Size-to-fit integration solution. Since Open ESB leverages the JBI framework customers can easily assemble an integration solution to fit their specific requirements and integration environment.
- Leverage GlassFish and NetBeans. Mural's components are built on and fully support GlassFish and all of the design time tooling is built on NetBeans
Source: theserverside.com
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