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Apply currently requires colleges to maintain an Apply specific tables for Districts, Colleges and Terms.  College Staff typically enter this data in their own College SIS, then re-enter the exact same data in the Apply Administrator Application.  What this means is that we now maintain multiple sets of duplicate master data at the colleges and in the Apply database.  To eliminate duplicates, or to keep the duplicate sets of data in sync, we introduce the concept of Master Data Management.

Master Data Management

As mentioned in the previous section, using Terms as an example, the college enters Terms in their own SIS, then re-enters the same Term data in the Apply administrator.

Because we now now have duplicate copies of Term master data, we need to consider the following:

• What is the system of record? (college or apply)
• What are the risks/benefits of duplicating data?
• What are the risks of out of sync data?
• What systems need the data?
• How quickly do the systems need to access the data?
• How often does the data change?
• How quickly do systems need access to recently updated data?

What does Master Data Management and Project Glue have in common?

Because Project Glue exchanges d