Andrew White

Gareth Hershel just published a note (Key Issues for Analytic Applications) that warrants careful attention.  Our research on analytics has flourished of late, and finally have warranted its own Key Issues note.  Such notes highlight the main issues that we distill from our interactions with clients, topped up with our own analysis.  Analytics, those things [...]

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What a fiasco.  They (GM) where never allowed to die properly.  Creative destruction should have been allowed to consume the assets and resources in order to grow again.  What we have now is a poor-mans’ orchestrated messed up cremation.  As parts of the beast collapse, the fire is extinguished, only to flare up somewhere else.  
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I was on a briefing today with TopQuadrant, a small vendor focused on semantic modeling technology that I wrote up in last years Cool Vendors for MDM note, when I decided to search on Google the term “semantics MDM”.  It created a long list – but was not one of the “common” searches that Google populates [...]

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I read today a good article on data quality, and specifically how to measure data quality (see How to Measure and Monitor the Quality of Master Data).  Looking at the article I noted several items that relate to published Gartner material, so the content looks familiar and has some proof points and experience behind it. [...]

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Unofficial Trip Report: SAP Sapphire 2009
Last week I had the good fortune of attending SAP’s annual Sapphire event in Orlando.  Other than some warm weather, and some pretty exciting thunder storms, there were lots to see and hear at the event.  As usual SAP put on a good “show” with lots of content, customer speakers, [...]

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