Reference Data Management tools

Reference data management tools help manage and bring consistency to your data. They enable business users to aggregate data quickly and understand the overall condition of the business. Reference data tends to be overlooked in many enterprises but although its amount in most organizations is relatively small, it can cause a major difference in data management.

Dataedo

Dataedo is an on-premises data catalog & metadata management tool. With Dataedo you can catalog, document, and understand your data. It also allows you to keep all your reference data in one place to easily access, distribute, and update it across different data sources.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No
Reference Data Management

Ataccama Reference Data Management

Ataccama Reference Data managment is an intuitive, feature-rich web app for your reference data. It lets you maintain valid reference data in a centrally managed solution and provide valid reference data to systems and users. Some of its key features include data governance, data quality management, error-free authoring & editing, data integration & warehousing, etc.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: Yes

Informatica Reference 360

Informatica Reference 360 is a cloud-based reference data management solution. It offers easy to use and configurable dashboard for managing the complete lifecycle of reference data. It lets you manage simple and complex hierarchies, while offers flexibility to model simple and complex reference codes and relationships.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

IBM InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub

IBM InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub is an advanced solution for centrally managing and distributing reference data across the enterprise. It enables you to effectively process and control reference information across the enterprise and provides the capacity to centralize stewardship, auditing, and security related to reference data management and distribution.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Profisee

Profisee is a web-based platform that allows you to search, browse, view, update, and review master and reference data records. Open and complete workflow assigned tasks. It facilitates defining and managing different types of relationships in your data so they can be managed by data stewards. In addition, it also serves effectively in traversing and managing relationships within and across master and reference data domains.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

TIBCO EBX software

TIBCO EBX™ software, a recognized leader in Master Data Management (MDM) and a pioneer in data asset management, is an innovative, single solution for managing, governing, and consuming all shared data assets, including master data, reference data, hierarchies, business glossaries, and metadata.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Semarchy xDM

Semarchy xDM is the single platform for master data management (MDM), reference data management (RDM), application data management (ADM), data quality, and data governance. The intuitive user experience allows teams of any size to collaborate in workflows to author, enrich, standardize, and validate data.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Software AG’s webMethods OneData

Software AG’s webMethods OneData master data management solutions provide “one version of the truth” when it comes to data, right out of the box. In addition to multi-domain master data management, webMethods OneData enables you to manage customer, reference, and hierarchy data. It provides a rich feature set that includes tools for analysis, reporting, modeling, acquisition and deployment, repository, and management of data.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

TopBraid EDG–Reference Data Management (EDG–RDM)

TopBraid EDG–Reference Data Management (EDG–RDM) simplifies the management and distribution of reference data with simple point-and-click interfaces. It lets organizations lower risk by providing auditability, provenance, and security of reference data. Some of its key features include intuitive GUI, hierarchy management, process automation, reporting, dashboards, etc.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Collibra Data Governance

Collibra Data Governance is a comprehensive data governance solution that also serves effectively in reference data management. With a common understanding of how data is organized, classified, and connected, Collibra empowers users to reconcile data between systems for more accurate reporting and analysis.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Epimorphics Reference Data Manager

Epimorphics Reference Data Manager platform is a solution that supports your organization in managing such reference data, particularly things like code lists or managed sets of identifiers. It offers tools to manage a hierarchy of reference terms, core reference data, code lists, and vocabularies. The platform also provides some ancillary services, which include versioning of identifiers, search and discovery, validation and general namespace delegation.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: No
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

EnterWorks Multi-Domain MDM

EnterWorks Multi-Domain MDM lets you manage multiple domains of data and easily link objects from those domains to create dynamic virtual relationships. You can configure and administer reference master data, validate bad data automatically, in real-time or batch, based on pre-built or customized business rules, track data quality issues requiring manual corrections in real-time, and do plenty of other data-centric activities.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

ibi (Information Builders)

ibi (Information Builders) is an all-in-one data platform for integration, quality, management, governance. Sophisticated governed data enables flexible management of reference data across the organization. It makes you effective stewards of your own data by putting in place centralized data collaboration, data lineage support, and a formalized glossary of accepted terms.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: No
Free edition: No

Magnitude Kalido MDM

Magnitude Kalido MDM empowers you to combine data from multiple sources, get data lineage, and govern both reference data and master data. Its visual modeling tool simplifies validation and integrity rules, while dashboards provide quick visibility into Kalido MDM data.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Unidata

The Unidata platform is a multifunctional platform for building corporate data management systems. It manages basic information and reference information in terms of data quality (DQ) and provides powerful tools for automating the decision-making system (Data Governance). It offers responsibility for managing static, rarely-changing data or data that comes from external environments, as well as other referenced sources, i.e. regulatory data.

Commercial: Commercial
Data Quality Management: Yes
Data validation: Yes
Free edition: No

Reference data is the most shared class of data in an entire organization. It impacts daily operations and contains valuable insights. In order to deliver its value, reference data management tools allow access and distribution of reference data across multiple systems and help data stewards populate and manage it over time.

Reference data management tools are not only automating workflows but also:

Minimizing errors and inefficiencies,

Reducing data and operational management cost,

Mapping data,

Comparing data from various parts of the organization.

Presented above is the list of paid solutions for reference data management that can also take care of data quality management and data validation.