Master Data Management: How Mentor Graphics Mastered the Data Monster - ' Mentor Graphics Base Case '
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Mentor Graphics Base Case
Headquarters: 8005 S.W. Boeckman Rd., Wilsonville, OR 97070
Phone: (503) 685-7000
Business: Electronic design automation for developing electronic
products.
Team Leader, Analytical Applications Quality: Jan-Willem Beldman
Annual revenue: $755 million.
Challenge: Implement and automate a process for updating,
synchronizing and verifying master data used in business systems
across the enterprise.
BASELINE GOALS:
Shorten the time needed to make a master data change, from up
to one day in 2003 to less than fi ve minutes today.
Cut the number of steps needed to distribute a master data
change among systems, from fi ve in 2003 to one today.
Reduce the number of information-technology staffers assigned
to updating master data, from four in 2003 to one today.
Projects: Management 
