by Andrew White | August 27, 2009 | Comments Off
I spent a couple of days in Montreal, Canada, where I had the pleasure of a number of end-user 1-1 meetings. The weather was bright and sunny on Tuesday, cloudy and overcast on Wednesday morning but sunny later in the afternoon. It was quite a lot cooler than in Atlanta, though locals said that their [...]
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by Andrew White | August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs. It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson. I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons. I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality? Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Data Quality MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Data Quality, MDM, Operational MDM
by Andrew White | August 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey seemed to suffer the wrath of some bloggers when we wrote an article, picked up by the Wall Street Journal, then the Economist, that swam against the populist mass-media. To be “in” and a “good guy” one has to be seen to support socialist tendencies, but Mackey swam against [...]
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by Andrew White | August 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Many users recognize that information in their business is an under leveraged asset. MDM, as we know, has provided a laser light focus on how users create and manage what had previously been mismanaged. MDM only focuses on master data (you wouldn’t use a hammer to screw in a nail), but for many firms, and specific [...]
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Category: MDM MDM of Customer Data Tags: MDM, MDM of Customer Data
by Andrew White | August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was on a call with a vendor today who was explaining to me their heritage as it pertains to hosted supply chain management solutions. They had a long list of “milestones” that included the “first” this and that, and among the list, where “multi-party”, “multi-process”, and “multi-tenancy”. I felt as if the vendor was [...]
Category: Multienterprise Tags: Multienterprise
by Andrew White | August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Sometimes even I am flabbergasted at the rate at which research get’s published Gartner. It can be a veritable fire-hose of stuff – I am sure hard for some users to keep up with. A few notes snuck out in the last couple days. Here are three of my favorite notes (and they are not [...]
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Category: ERP MDM of Asset SOA Tags: Asset MDM, ERP, MDM and SOA
by Andrew White | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
We know that there are generally very few new ideas. I remember how crestfallen I was when, in a previous life, a friend and colleague of mine (Bill Blitch – who hired me into American Software, Inc.), appraised me of this fact. “Andrew”, he said, “there are not many new ideas – just lots of [...]
Category: Pattern-Based Strategy Tags: Patter-Based Strategy
by Andrew White | August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
One particular topic has plagued a lot of users for several years – what is the overlap, or intersection, between MDM, Product Data Management (PDM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Well, a colleague of mine (Marc Halpern) and I have just published a couple of notes on the topic. My overview is A Look at [...]
Category: MDM Master Data Lifecycle Product Data Management (PDM) Product Information Management (PIM) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Tags: MDM, PDM, PLM, Product Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management
by Andrew White | August 6, 2009 | Comments Off
I was putting some books away on my shelves yesterday evening I and found a book I had forgotten I read! I love to read, and many books (of the business kind) I make extensive notes (and mark then with sticky notes for fast reference) and I spied, “Jack Welch and GE Way”, Robert Slater, [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Innovators Dilemma, Motivation, Passion for Winning
by Andrew White | August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
This book (The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success) arrived yesterday – and I had to read it overnight! What does that tell you about my sleeping habits? All kidding aside, I did read rather quickly Tony Fisher’s new book, sent to me by DataFlux (many thanks). I found the [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Quality, Governance, MDM
