Archives for October, 2009
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Gartner MDM Summit
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”. [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Governance Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Governance, Operational 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 [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Operational MDM