Master data management with MediaWiki

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Master data management with MediaWiki

Master data management allows you to maintain, on a single platform, the data used by different services or departments within an organization such as a company.

For example, a customer's address can be used by the accounting department to send them an invoice and by the marketing department to send them a promotional offer. The address is considered here as reference data. If each service manages the update of this reference data, not only are two resources used for the same task, but differences may appear, differences which may be sources of error, given that there are only only one valid address.

Your enterprise wiki, if created with MediaWiki, can plug into your reference data, in effect your database to dynamically display in push mode data from databases in SOAP, MS SQL/SQLServer, MongoDB, Oracle, LDAP Directory, MySQL, Postgres, DB2 or structured data present in files in: CSV, GFF, JSON, xml. Finally, your wiki can facilitate the collaborative management of enrichment of your reference data management system, each data or type of data can have its dedicated page on which you document it and can discuss its content.

Migrate from a classic organization based on knowledge contained in office files

Moving to an internal wiki obviously requires keeping the knowledge and information already present in the company, often in the form of office files such as Word or Writer, Excel or Calc or even PowerPoint or Impress. To speed up the migration it is possible to convert these files to MediaWiki format and import them.

The wiki will thus reduce the risk of duplicate documents being formed.