Semarchy API
Semarchy xDM documents a full REST API for querying, publishing, and certifying golden records, with a published OpenAPI spec. Access is privilege-gated: platform rights plus a per-model Integration API grant, and the spec sits behind a login. HTTP Basic auth is still common in the wild.
Frequently asked questions
Semarchy scores C on the API Report Card. Semarchy xDM documents a full REST API for querying, publishing, and certifying golden records, with a published OpenAPI spec. Access is privilege-gated: platform rights plus a per-model Integration API grant, and the spec sits behind a login. HTTP Basic auth is still common in the wild.
Semarchy has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Semarchy sells the Semarchy Data Platform (SDP, historically marketed as xDM + xDI), a unified data management platform combining Master Data Management (MDM), Reference Data Management, Data Integration / ETL/ELT, Data Quality, Data Governance and Cataloging, and an AI-assisted 'DataOps' layer for building and operating data products.
Vertical: enterprise data infrastructure / MDM. Data stewards and data quality teams live in Semarchy's web UI to author and enforce match/merge rules, survivorship logic, validation rules, and workflow-driven data stewardship tasks (review duplicates, approve golden records, fix data quality issues).
Semarchy is consistently ranked as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave reports for MDM alongside Informatica, Reltio, Profisee, and Stibo.
Yes. By design, a Semarchy hub holds the customer's golden record set across whatever domains the program covers, typically customer/party, product, supplier/vendor, employee, location/site, account/hierarchy, and reference codes.
Founded in 2011 in Lyon, France (with US HQ in Phoenix), Semarchy is a relatively modern MDM vendor compared to legacy Informatica/IBM/SAP stacks.
API access requires both platform-level privileges and a per-model 'Grant access to the Integration API' grant, so an end customer with hub credentials cannot necessarily query the REST API without admin enablement. The OpenAPI spec / built-in documentation is itself privilege-gated (must be reachable from the platform Welcome page with sufficient permissions), reducing self-serve discoverability for downstream developers. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, Stibo Systems, Ataccama ONE, TIBCO EBX (Cloud Software Group). Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.