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Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 3

by Andrew White  |  November 20, 2008  |  Comments Off

The highlight for me was the Gartner MDM Excellence Award, of course.  On Tuesday Asian Paints, Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, and State Street bank presented their MDM journeys to the audience.  These three speakers were the three “finalists” selected from among a group of users that had been submitted for the industry’s first Excellence Award. [...]

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Category: Business Case Governance MDM Summit     Tags: , ,

Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 2

by Andrew White  |  November 20, 2008  |  Comments Off

The second day of our MDM Summit carried on as day 1 had ended – lots of great user interaction.  Another fruitful dialog led me to think about another aspect of MDM that has not been that widely talked about, that being business rules and the management of business rules.  In a user roundtable discussion [...]

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A good dose of personal opinion – Supply Chain Risk Management and the bleeding US auto makers

by Andrew White  |  November 20, 2008  |  2 Comments

This morning I was perusing the web and one link referred to me an Industry Week article from October on supply chain risk management.  My mind wandered to the potential value of risk management to another topic from this week, that being the US automakers going cap-in-hand to the US government for a bail-out.  Before [...]

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Category: Economy SCM     Tags: ,

Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 1

by Andrew White  |  November 19, 2008  |  Comments Off

  We had a great first day!  The attendance at the event was very good indeed; the opening session was packed.  Despite the economic slow down and noticeable number of cancellations more users attended the event than last year which is testament to the importance of MDM – in touch times as well as good [...]

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Category: Governance MDM Summit     Tags: ,

Should you “do” MDM before you “do” ERP?

by Andrew White  |  November 10, 2008  |  Comments Off

This question came up today while visiting a customer and it’s a question that is been on the mind of many end users.  As they consider some ERP project, perhaps a migration, or some upgrade, they wonder, “Should I concern myself with MDM before I do this project, or should I worry about MDM afterward?” [...]

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Category: Data Migration ERP     Tags: ,

Making MDM Work Better

by Andrew White  |  November 7, 2008  |  Comments Off

Making MDM work   We are just wrapping up the final preparations for our upcoming Gartner MDM Summit (November 17th-19th, Chicago, IL) and John Radcliffe and I were developing some ideas related to how MDM will develop in the future.  One of the threads proving to be interesting concerns how MDM systems and other data [...]

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Category: Data Integration/Synchronization MDM Semantics     Tags: ,