Squadra - Master Data Management

About

Build A Reliable Data Foundation For Your Business.

High-value, business-critical master data is at the heart of every business process and the amount of data (e.g. product, customer, vendor, location) is growing rapidly.

Companies face challenges with complex systems, organizational silos with different versions of data, multiple entry points and lack of integration. These challenges are reinforced by lack of definitions, ownership and change control resulting in inaccurate, inconsistent data, impacting trust, efficiency and customer loyalty. MDM ensures well-managed, synchronized data and a single source of truth across the business.

Approach

Trustworthy Master Data Is Foundational For Digital Success.

As an MDM market leader, we support organizations with our best practices from 100+ global projects embedded in our methods.

Strategy development

Acting as trusted advisors, we can help you develop a tailored digital transformation strategy. We provide support in defining a vision, setting goals and identifying critical success factors. This stage also involves translating your strategy into an actionable multi-year program and operational plan.

Change readiness

The current situation is assessed, including organization, governance, processes, data and systems. Experts help you build business cases, outline costs and benefits, and measure data quality, ensuring you of a thorough understanding of enablers and success factors.

Outline solution

Squadra helps customers translate their digital and MDM strategy into a concrete solution proposal based on organization, process, data and system requirements, reusing earlier assessments if available. Using our proven RfP approach, we ensure effective selection of fit-for-purpose tools.

Project initiation

Our extensive set of best practices have resulted to our unique, business-focused implementation method, including a predefined project structure, key activities and potential risks.

Execution and evaluation

The phased implemention is based on a stage-gate or an agile approach. Our experienced MDM project managers and consultants ensure a smooth execution, project delivery and evaluation to ensure all objectives are met.

Continuous improvement

Our MDM consultants team up with clients to support and step-by-step further improve and innovate the solution, support the extension and quality improvements of data to lift the MVP towards the benefits of the business case.

Services

Our MDM Services.

MDM Assessment

Our MDM Assessment enables you to identify issues and opportunities as input for a well-defined and business-focused improvement plan and roadmap, to address your product data challenges.

Selection of MDM system (RfP)

Our fast-track approach includes tools, like a checklist with over 400 predefined requirements, that will be tailored to your needs in just 4 half-day workshops, a prefilled RFP document for vendors, score cards and many other tools that already supported over 45+ organizations in tool selection.

Success factors

Best Practices For MDM.

Comprehensive support and proven methodologies ensure that your MDM solution is not only effective, but also adaptable to future challenges.

Leverage Deep Expertise

Benefit from our extensive knowledge and experience in MDM, ensuring tailored solutions that fit your unique business needs.

Focus on Data Quality

Prioritize data accuracy and integrity by implementing robust quality management practices that set us apart from competitors.

Drive Strategic Value

Align MDM initiatives with your business goals, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency for greater impact. This is data-driven value creation!

Ensure Continuous Support

Ongoing support and training, ensuring your team is equipped to maintain and maximize the value of your MDM system.

Leverage Deep Expertise

Benefit from our extensive knowledge and experience in MDM, ensuring tailored solutions that fit your unique business needs.

Focus on Data Quality

Prioritize data accuracy and integrity by implementing robust quality management practices that set us apart from competitors.

Drive Strategic Value

Align MDM initiatives with your business goals, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency for greater impact. This is data-driven value creation!

Ensure Continuous Support

Ongoing support and training, ensuring your team is equipped to maintain and maximize the value of your MDM system.

Benefits

Key Benefits Of MDM.

A robust MDM solution provides essential business benefits.

Increased customer engagement

MDM will improve customer experience, -loyalty and -insights, which enables segmented value propositions as well as supplier spend analyses and rationalization.

Increased efficiency and effectiveness

First-time-right creation will increase efficiency, avoids late manual corrections and increases trust in data.

Improved and data-driven decision-making

Trustworthy master data is the fundament for analytics, reporting and data-driven decision-making.

Enable growth

Efficient management of customers and vendors through identification, deduplication and hierachies, improved targeting and reduced M&A costs.

Ensure compliance

Improved data quality and classification for more accurate reporting, reduced compliancy risks and better protection of sensitive customer and vendor data.

Increased customer engagement

MDM will improve customer experience, -loyalty and -insights, which enables segmented value propositions as well as supplier spend analyses and rationalization.

Increased efficiency and effectiveness

First-time-right creation will increase efficiency, avoids late manual corrections and increases trust in data.

Improved and data-driven decision-making

Trustworthy master data is the fundament for analytics, reporting and data-driven decision-making.

Enable growth

Efficient management of customers and vendors through identification, deduplication and hierachies, improved targeting and reduced M&A costs.

Ensure compliance

Improved data quality and classification for more accurate reporting, reduced compliancy risks and better protection of sensitive customer and vendor data.

Assets

Our MDM Assets.

Data Management Framework

Our Data Management Framework forms a holistic, integrated and business-oriented approach to build a data foundation.

MDM Assessments

An assessment enable customers to get deep insight in challenges and opportunities for one or more data domains. All of the 7 key data aspects are covered through our proven questionnaire .

MDM tool selection

We’ve helped over 45 organizations with our unique fasttrack selection approach, supported by our toolbox, which includes a predefined list of ± 400 requirements and more.

How MDM can drive value

Use our experience with many customers across multiple industries to define your MDM value drivers.