by Andrew White | March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had a peach of a call today (actually Tuesday last week) with a customer! This was a mid-to large firm (over $1bn) that described itself as mature (on its second large scale ERP roll out) in terms of IT capability. I was speaking with the IT side – not uncommon of course but notable [...]
Category: Business Case MDM Tags: Business Case, MDM
by Andrew White | March 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Now and again one has the pleasure of reading something and not experiencing how quickly time has passed by during the experience. I love it when this happens during my weekly Economist sojourn. It so happened that this fun feeling was experienced with the edition for March 7th-13th. I dived in with my usual gusto [...]
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by Andrew White | March 16, 2009 | Comments Off
I had to laugh! I was reading an article over the weekend, in the Financial Times, from Friday’s edition. The article was called, “Japan Supports US Emphasis on Global Action”, that referred to this weeks G20 meeting in London. The US is calling on the Europeans to spend more (something like 2% of GDP) to [...]
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by Andrew White | March 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Well I had a busy day – even though this was day 3. I had a number of client inquiries and 1-1’s on site, and I also presented on MDM just after lunch. Then I had another client call and had to dash to the airport. Overall the event was really good. There were [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence Tags: Analytical MDM, Business Intelligence
by Andrew White | March 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Did you see the National Retail Federation (NRF) press release from February 28th, “Retailers Urge House To Reject Union ‘Card-Check’ Legislation”? It would seem that the “nanny state” is at it again. I come from a background where Margaret Thatcher took on Arthur Scargill (president, at the time, of one of the strongest Unions in [...]
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by Andrew White | March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
Other than being a lovely day outside (whoever sees ‘outside’ when at a conference anyway?) this was another packed day. It started out for me with an early ‘roundtable’ with a number of attendees. The focus was MDM. It turned out that only 1 of the roundtable participants had started an MDM program, and that had [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Governance Tags: Business Intelligence, Governance
by Andrew White | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”. The key take-away for me was that despite the importance IT puts on BI (it has been the top priority for IT, according to CIO [...]
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Category: Business Intelligence Data Quality Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Quality
