Andrew White

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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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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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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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 times.
 
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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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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 stores that [...]

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