Conclusion

Deploying PDM is much more than a way to improve the quality of your customer, product, vendor, or employee data, but a way to streamline and drive efficiency and effectiveness across your entire business. PDM is one of the most robust and potentially impactful capabilities that data governance can deliver for a company.

As we’ve covered in this chapter, there are four key skills that are required to launch a successful PDM capability in your organization:

1. The importance of PDM including why it is required for building successful data solutions.
2. How to design an PDM function.
3. The specific needs when it comes to implementation.
4. How to design an PDM solution.

Now that we’ve covered the importance of metadata management (both business and technical) as well as data quality and primary data management, our next topic, data operations, will cover how we operate these capabilities with ease and scale.