Master data is the DNA of every company. Owned and shared by all lines of business, it is the building block of every critical business transaction. Without reliable and available master data, revenue opportunities are lost. The wrong product is shipped; an important cross-sell or up-sell opportunity is missed; a key manufacturing part is out of stock; or a customer receives poor service. Inaccurate master data results in poor reporting and can affect business decisions, operational effectiveness and in some cases, risk compliance. With today's global economic challenges it's more important than ever for companies to leverage their biggest asset--master data-- to increase customer loyalty, business growth and company revenues.

Designed for Business Users

100% Web-based Solution Delivers a User-centered Experience

Orchestra Networks' EBX5 multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) software is an end-to-end, model-driven and flexible MDM solution. Business users, data stewards and IT experts now have the ability to collaborate on one single, unified platform and take advantage of MDM content and every feature, including: data modeling, hierarchy management, governance workflow or complex quality rules definition capabilities. The product's simplified business user experience puts companies on the fast track to achieving strategic goal of managing and governing their most important asset – Data.

At Orchestra Networks, we believe that the critical path to a successful master data governance program is business user adoption. As the owners of master data, business users need a collaborative solution that is designed for them, without requiring any technical skill or IT support.

EBX5 puts MDM into the hands of business users and is as easy-to-use as a consumer web-based service like web mail. Its user interface is intuitive, little or no training is required. This feature ensures a positive user experience and results in higher levels of user adoption, rapid deployment and faster time-to-value.

A Model-driven Solution

True Multidomain MDM: What You Model is What You Get

Orchestra Networks' EBX5 is a true model-driven MDM software solution. By eliminating the restrictions of pre-defined models or rigid relational data models, the product provides semantic modeling features which address the complexity of your master data.

Now, using EBX5, business and IT teams can work together collaboratively to define rich data models that business users can relate to. The product's "What You Model Is What You Get" approach allows users to define data objects, quality rules and business dictionaries and then automatically see the results in the EBX5 User Interface (UI). With its data modeling capabilities, EBX5 delivers a powerful multidomain MDM solution that may be applied to any type of master data, including: products, assets, parties, financial hierarchies, human resources or any reference table and hierarchy.

Business users can be involved from day one and will be able to both visualize changes and test the model as it is being implemented. With its ease-of-use and simplified modeling capabilities, EBX5 enhances the way business users collaborate with IT. EBX5 also provides faster time-to-value. Whether starting from scratch or working from an existing enterprise model, first projects can be delivered in a matter of weeks. Through its dynamic generation of all UI and services, EBX5 is capable of adjusting to any change in data models or business rules.

Enterprise MDM in a Single Product

Gain Control of the Full Master Data Life Cycle with One Product

Master data has a long life cycle; the journey begins when it enters the system. Data then goes through changes and approval workflows and sometimes multiple versions must be managed. Finally, there is downstream integration to IT systems. An effective MDM software solution must deliver a rich set of features to gain control of master data from beginning-to-end.

Most MDM vendors offer solutions based on multiple software products such as MDM hub, ETL (Extract, Transform & Load), Data Quality or BPM (Business Process Management). This can result in poor levels of integration across the enterprise, requires extensive user training and creates a difficult and complex user experience.

EBX5 delivers all enterprise MDM capabilities in a single software product. With EBX5, you can control the complete life cycle of your master data, including: data modeling, data quality, data management, data governance, data lineage and data integration. EBX5 product features are all available in a single engine and offer a consistent Web UI.

Using industry standards that include XML Schema and XML Web Services, EBX5 easily leverages the existing middleware infrastructure allowing smooth integration to ETL or an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus).

In addition, EBX5 provides enterprise-class scalability for most large deployments. The product has a unique distributed architecture component for advanced clustering or geographical federation and the ability to store very large data sets.