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Archives for October, 2009


Gartner MDM Summit – Day 1

by Andrew White  |  October 5, 2009  |  Comments Off

Just completed our MDM Tutorial, a pre event session.  Very busy room.  Are all you folks “beginners”?  Pre event survey suggested a more even share of new and experienced users; but the attendance makes me think that actual attendees are very new to MDM. Key note over.  Never enough time to talk about what we [...]

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More on Governance of Master Data

by Andrew White  |  October 2, 2009  |  2 Comments

I blogged yesterday about two of the main use-cases of MDM: operational MDM and analytical MDM.  Mark Beyer and I would “argue” if there was a way to denote the primary difference of the two, with respect to governance.  I explained that in operational MDM, governance is “active” and in analytical MDM, governance is “passive”. [...]

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The “use-cases” of MDM

by Andrew White  |  October 1, 2009  |  Comments Off

A few years ago we introduced the notion of MDM “use cases”.  After looking at hundreds of end user inquiries we spotted some patterns; some were clear and some were less.  One very clear pattern is what we called, “operational MDM”.  The common characteristics that describe this use case were (and still are): identify erroneous [...]

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