Andrew White

After my blog on When is SOA, DOA? When it’s without MDM!, a vendor kindly sent me an email that explained how they too had similar ideas regarding the important link between MDM and SOA.  Oracle wrote a white paper entitled, MDM as a Foundation for SOA, in November 2007.  The SOA Magazine published in [...]

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I wrote a short time ago about how MDM can help firms cope with the current economic down-turn.  Specifically, I talked about how MDM can help reduce business costs (lower inventory levels, and rationalize supplier spend) as well as help protect customer service and revenue.  It seems that many different areas of IT are also [...]

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Toby Bell, a colleague of mine at Gartner, just published a note called, Get Ready for Content in the Cloud.  The note focuses on the rapid growth likely to be seen in content and services in SaaS deployment models, which exist outside of the firewall and hence in the “cloud”.  When the word “content” is [...]

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About two years ago Kathy Harris (see her blog here), a colleague of mine, and I spent some time with an idea that went nowhere.  The idea we explored the issue that arises when firms segment their customers, yet customers don’t always follow predictable patterns of behavior that are implied by the suppliers segmentation of [...]

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I was trolling my email “inbox” this morning and I read with interest an email from a vendor I met recently at a briefing.  In November, Panjiva updated me on their business: their offering is based on knowledge gleaned from perusing all the inbound manifests for goods arriving in the US.  By analyzing the data, [...]

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Deb Logan, a colleague of mine, just published a note (see Enterprise Information Management Revisited: Foundations, Progress and Futures) that nicely updates us on the state of Enterprise Information Management (EIM).  Nestled in the note is also a description that relates this holistic information management strategy with numerous other initiatives including MDM.  
 
The document serves [...]

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We all know that SOA is a design style – a way of developing applications and integration.  Adopting SOA leads to a change in the way ‘stuff’ happens.  Gartner, and others, have published widely on the different uses of SOA, and I myself wrote a note some time ago on where SOA adds most value [...]

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So I was writing my “book of the month” summary (I post them in my email footer) and in October I finished Edith Penrose’s, “The Theory of the Growth of the Firm”, originally published in 1959 and updated in 1995.  Despite being more of a text book, it was good fun to refresh my knowledge [...]

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I sat down with a large business applications vendor that sells to retailers and manufactures yesterday, to get an update on their “multi-channel” strategy.  Multi-channel, or as we are increasingly calling it, “multicommerce”, represent the complexity in a firm that exists when that firm interacts with its customers (or partners) across multiple channels using different methods. [...]

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