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title: "Working with MDM studio - Source company"
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# Working with MDM studio - Source company

Using Master Data Management Studio, you can have these perspectives on the master data:

- Source company: The company that owns and manages the master data. In this company, you edit, approve, release, and send the master data.
- Target company: The company where the master data is received and used.

This section explains how to use Master Data Management Studio in the source company.

For the source company, we advise you to primarily use the **Master data management - Operations** workspace of Master Data Management Studio.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note**
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> The users who can manage the master data in the source company are the data stewards as defined for the source company.

### Prerequisites

Before you can use Master Data Management Studio, this setup is required:

- Companies and organization hierarchies: Where to send the data from and to.
- Connectivity Studio: Which data is sent.
- Master data entity: How the data is sent.

## Related

- [Master Data Management Studio](/master-data-management-studio.md)