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YOUnite's governance model can manage who can access the data. In the federated example, governance can be set so that the Warehouse Management system may only have has access to data stored in the Distribution and CRM systems, but allow the Accounting System may to have access to all the other systems. When Based on the governance setting, when the Warehouse Management Division looks up the data record for its customer, the Acme Company, it may get a different result than when (appropriate for that division's needs) than the Accounting Division since the Accounting Division which has access, or scopeACLs, to Acme Company's information on all systems, including Credit Card Processing for example.
MDM is the process of determining where the data records are stored (mdm data store or federated) and managing who (a person or a system) has read, write, update, and delete privileges to those systems.
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