by Andrew White | June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK Well what a day! The week ended on a high for me, and by the looks of it, for the attendees of the conference. Despite the lovely London sunshine a good number of folks remained in the hotel to chat about SOA and application development. [...]
Category: Best Practices MDM SOA Tags: Best Practices, MDM, SOA
by Andrew White | June 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK I sat in a vendor presentation today on SOA. Specifically the presentation was focused on SAP and how SOA oriented was its technology stack. I asked a question of the speaker that was not pointed to SAP, but to SOA in general, and the role [...]
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Category: MDM Multienterprise Semantics SOA Tags: MDM, Multienterprise, Multienterprise BPP, SOA
by Andrew White | June 22, 2009 | Comments Off
It is not in my nature to use blogs to argue of topics that require detailed exchange of information and analysis…but the following article was brought to my attention and I thought it a potentially good example of “vendor hype” even it was not directly provided by the vendor. Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference, [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM MDM Microsoft Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, MDM, Microsoft, Operational MDM
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Just spotted an interesting article: “MDM: Don’t Give Up“. In the checklist for MDM that is posted, item 1 happens to reinforce one of the two key points I concluded at the end my blog, (A Tale of Two MDM Initiatives): “Do you have [before you go to far with MDM] an information management strategy?” Interesting [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) MDM SOA Tags: Enterprise Information Management (EIM), MDM, SOA
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
You go on the road and while you are away, great notes get published! John Radcliffe, my primary MDM partner, just published his annual update to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM of Customer Data. As you may know, Magic Quadrants highlight the main vendors in a market and rate then against a number of [...]
Category: Customer Data Integration (CDI) MDM MDM of Customer Data Tags: MDM, MDM of Customer Data
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B). Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Business Intelligence Data Quality Enterprise Information Management (EIM) ERP Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
