Andrew White

I received today one of those email “flyers” advertising “semantics and the enterprise”.  The link took me to a site for the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.  I was intrigued about this flyer since the notion of applying or exploiting semantic web technology inside the enterprise remains elusive.  Even at Gartner I was unable to excite [...]

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I remember the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK.  I was there.  I won’t forget.  For those of you that don’t remember, let me remind you of a few home truths:

Labor unions were in the ascendancy; laws being passed favored the creation of unions in businesses even if the union members were in [...]

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Despite the similarity in terms, we have not written too many notes on the topic of how metadata management and MDM intersect (or overlap).  After speaking with many end users there confusion is not overly great, though once you tackle a specific question in context to a particular business decision or process or application, it [...]

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Well that was a strange day (actually it was a day last week) that had it all.  Most of the work day was on the telephone with back-to-back calls with clients.  There were one or two briefings (where vendors present some for analytsts to listen and learn) but most of the day wasspent talking with end [...]

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It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its MDM Product Data Offering With Oracle Product Data Quality Cleansing and Matching Server)   This is not [...]

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My colleague, Dan Sholler, just published a really nice note on How to Establish the Foundation of a Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Initiative.  The connection between SOA and MDM has not been all that clear; SOA as a topic of interest (and design strategy) is quite old, and has roots that go farther back toward model [...]

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Took a briefing from a vendor that sports an MDM offering, that historically was oriented around product master data (MDM of Product Data) but today has a credible vision for multiple domain MDM (including Customer Data).  During the briefing we talked about an observation that the vendor described to me.  A prospect of theirs had [...]

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