Mutidomain MDM has been a trend in the Master Data Mamagement world for some years as told in the post Golden Records in Multidomain MDM.

Gartner, the analyst, firm, says in the latest MDM Magic Quadrant that “Several patterns have emerged whereby “customer,” “party,” “product” or “thing” master data have become the highest priority for a large number of organizations. The MDM solution should be capable of supporting all domains that are “in scope” for an MDM program, through either client-driven or prepackaged data model styles.”

Gartner has also together with the included vendors estimated the number of multidomain licenses sold on the market as seen in the post Counting MDM Licenses.

On the Hype Cycle for Information Management Gartner sees Multidomain MDM as sliding into the through of disillusionment while the customer and product single domains are at the slope of enlightenment.

Multiple domains are in the Gartner world one of several vectors of MDM. Other vectors are industries, usage scenarios (operational vs analytical), organizational structures (central vs local) and implementation styles (registry, consolidation, coexistence and centralized).

Another MDM theme that is trailing multidomain is multienterprise MDM – aka business ecosystem wide MDM.

Forrester, the other analyst firm, puts it this way in their latest MDM Wave: “As first-generation MDM technologies become outdated and less effective, improved second generation and third-generation features will dictate which providers lead the pack. Vendors that can provide internet-of-things (IoT) capabilities, ecosystem capabilities, and data context position themselves to successfully deliver added business value to their customers.”

What do you think: Will multidomain MDM prevail? Either way, what will be the next big thing(s)?