I had the good fortune to attend IBM’s user conference this week in Las Vegas. Apparently over 7,000 folks attended – covering all of IBM IOD oriented technologies that span business intelligence, content management, and data management. First I had a few main observations:
Key Note: IBM did not make any significant announcements at the event [...]
Tags: Convergence BA/BI · IBM · SAP
I received one particular (spam) email today from www.intermarket.com – not an organization I am that familiar with. However, the email informed me, “If last year’s events and the sudden vanishing of entire markets have made one thing clear to investors it is the following: never again take a price at face value.”
This reminded me of [...]
Tags: Defining Master Data
This week was, of course, spent at our annual Gartner IT Expo/Symposium. As usual it was a very busy week, presenting and meeting with customers 1-1. It is always fun to meet so many customers over a short period of time – and looking at the vast array and breadth of issues they have, even [...]
Tags: Data Quality · MDM
My computer dashboard sent me a link to a note on Bloomberg today, entitled, “U.S. Wholesale Stockpiles Rise More Than Forecast”. The article provided some chilling data that suggests that wholesale inventories across the U.S. were ‘stacking up’ far more than expected in August. The main reason is that retail demand is falling (as a [...]
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My eyes were drawn, as they usually are, to one of my emails this morning that proudly advised “semantic search gets smarter”, an eWeek article. It turned out much less an article than an advertisement from Hakia, a semantic search vendor. My eyes were drawn to the headline since semantics and MDM are closely connected. [...]
Two different ideas crossed my mind last week that became connected (with MDM). These ideas might not seem that related to each other, let along MDM. One concerns email and contacts, and the other the financial and economic woes we see in the press. First, a story about email.
Being away in the UK for a few weeks meant [...]
Tags: MDM