Master Data Management (MDM) has been one of the hot technology areas that are striving to solve the age old data quality and data management problems of the Master Data such as Customer, Product, Chart of Accounts (COA), etc. Of late given the ever increasing capabilities of Hardware, global single instances of packaged applications, mergers and acquisitions, it has become apparent that the data quality problems associated with Master data have been continue to worsen. It is in this context that the MDM solutions try to address the management of master data with robust data quality solutions. The Trading Community Architecture (TCA) framework is an Oracle's answer to solve the problem associated with managing the customer data. Of late the TCA has evolved much more into managing of Location data, Supplier data, Citizen Data, etc. The objective of this session is to provide the overview of Master Data Management (MDM) and Oracle's Trading Community Architecture (TCA) and how it can be used to model the customer data in an enterprise. This is an entry level session and any one with keen interest to learn what MDM and TCA can attend this session. Learn the basics of Master Data Management (MDM), MDM for Customer, and Oracle's Trading Community Architectue (TCA) Learn about the importance of MDM to an enterprise Take a brief look at the TCA's logical data model and the power/flexibility of model to solution cusotmer data