A new hint about what's coming in Microsoft Office 14
All about Microsoft | at | by Mike
Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview of which is due in the first quarter of 2008.
Thats according to a September 19 blog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist "PatricG.
Master data management is technology that allows for the management of common reference data across disparate IT systems or groups. Microsoft stuck a toe in the MDM space in June 2007 with its acquisition of privately held MDM specialist Stratature. Microsoft said at the time of the acquisition that it planned to withdraw existing Stratature products from the market and instead integrate the Stratature +EDM technology into Office applications and servers.