🏢 Meridian Company & Casebook
Meridian Commerce Group (MCG) is the persistent fictional company used throughout the CDMP Applied Data Management Laboratory.
Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q6XaEHrSeaBc9fOl7yvRUsfd4T36pLlJ
Authoritative formatted sources: Google Doc — Enterprise Data Management Casebook · PDF
Synthetic-only rule: Meridian is fictional. All names, transactions, documents, identifiers, and defects are synthetic. Never substitute real personal or employer data into the training environment.
Online casebook
- Company Profile, Business Processes & Personas
- Systems, Data Domains & Operating Landscape
- Messy Company Condition — MCG-001 through MCG-012
- Synthetic Dataset Blueprint
- Scenario & Incident Bank
- Stable Casebook Rules
Core learning premise
Meridian has enough technology to operate, but its data is not consistently defined, governed, traceable, mastered, protected, or measured. The same company persists across chapters so earlier decisions and evidence can become later dependencies, risks, or improvements.
Use this casebook for
- the business reason data exists;
- recurring stakeholders and decision rights;
- system/data-domain context;
- persistent synthetic defects;
- chapter-lab scenarios;
- cross-chapter incidents and capstones;
- before/after maturity evidence.