EBX Master Data Management Flashcards

What is an EBX Add-on and how does it extend EBX's core capabilities?

Answer: A packaged extension module that adds domain-specific functionality (e.g., product catalogue management, financial data governance) on top of EBX's core MDM engine

EBX Add-ons are modular extensions that provide pre-built, domain-specific MDM applications (product information management, financial regulatory reporting, data exchange) running on top of the EBX platform.

What is the EBX Replication feature used for?

Answer: Synchronising a subset of master data from a master EBX instance to one or more replica EBX instances or target databases, reducing query load on the primary and supporting geographic distribution

EBX Replication distributes approved master data to replica stores (other EBX instances, databases, or files) for read-scale-out, offline access by remote locations, or downstream system synchronisation.

How does TIBCO EBX enforce data validation rules and what types of rules are supported?

Answer: Validation rules are defined in the Data Model and enforced by EBX on every record create/update: field-level constraints (mandatory, regex, range), cross-field business rules (scripted in Groovy/Java), and referential integrity checks

EBX validates data at write time using field constraints (mandatory, format, range), custom scripted rules (Groovy/Java), and foreign key integrity checks, rejecting non-compliant records before they are persisted.

What is TIBCO EBX's role in a data governance programme?

Answer: EBX provides the technical enforcement platform for data governance policies — stewardship workflows, access controls, audit trails, data lineage, and quality rules — operationalising governance decisions made by data governance committees

EBX operationalises data governance by providing the technical platform where governance policies are encoded as workflows, access controls, validation rules, and audit trails, translating governance committee decisions into enforced technical controls.

How does TIBCO EBX's REST API enable application integration?

Answer: EBX exposes its Datasets as RESTful resources supporting CRUD operations and OData-compliant query syntax, allowing applications to create, read, update, and delete master data records programmatically

EBX's REST API provides full CRUD access to any Dataset with OData query support (filtering, sorting, pagination, $expand for related records), enabling applications to integrate with EBX master data without requiring custom adapters.

What is cross-domain data integrity in TIBCO EBX and how is it maintained?

Answer: Enforcing referential integrity across Data Models from different MDM domains (e.g., a Product record must reference a valid Supplier from the Supplier domain), maintained through EBX foreign key constraints spanning datasets

EBX enforces cross-domain referential integrity through foreign key relationships defined between tables in different Data Models/Datasets, ensuring that records in one domain correctly reference valid records in another domain.