Prerequisites for defining your data model
To define a data model, you need to analyze, strategize, and define your business and data requirements by collaborating with various stakeholders.
Before you define a data model, perform the following steps:
- •Understand the business objectives and requirements for your data management project.
- •Provide insights into what various stakeholders want and need from the data management project.
- •Identify the source systems that contribute to the master data.
- •Analyze the attributes and quality of the data that you want to consolidate into master data.
- •Identify the business entities and the relationships between business entities that are critical to your data model.
- •Identify reference data, such as lists of countries, currencies, products, gender, and salutations, that your organization uses.