by Andrew White | December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
There are at least three sets of requirements that exist across two use cases for MDM that, despite showing similarities, might derail how MDM is evolving. In operational MDM users evaluate the impact on sales regions and territories of product and service sales and performance. This “hierarchy” data links customers to locations and regions, and [...]
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by Andrew White | December 14, 2009 | Comments Off
In “Mortgage Repayments – Time to Hold”, December 5th print edition, the Economist warns that, “The latest foreclosures are no longer the result of loans that were unaffordable from the outset or payments rising from resets. Rather, they are a product of negative equity and rising unemployment.” Not good news. The article explores the lack [...]
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by Andrew White | December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
The print edition of the Economist, November 28th, included three real good lead articles. The main leader, The quiet American, highlighted how time is running out for Obama’s foreign policy. It seems the paper is suggesting good scores for Obama for his ideas and speeches, but his scores in terms of action and output is [...]
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by Andrew White | December 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Things are heating up – not least the planet. If you haven’t heard or read about ‘Climategate’, you should go hunting. Seems like some leaked emails from a few influential folks are causing a bit of a flutter among those that believe man is the primary cause of “global warming”. Interesting article in last week’s [...]
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by Andrew White | December 7, 2009 | Comments Off
In “New rules on liquidity could do more harm than good”, FT print edition, December 3rd, 2009, Jose Maria Brandao de Brito does a nice job of explaining the stress being sustained by governments that insist that banks need to increase their lending, and at the same time, financial regulators asking that banks preserve a [...]
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by Andrew White | December 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Interesting alert this afternoon. Article in PCMAG.COM highlighting an announcement that Google is experimenting with a service to replace how DNS works. Instead of our devices using the global system in place today, they would (after changing their DNS settings to point to a Google server) be routed to the desired location via Google’s own [...]
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by Andrew White | December 4, 2009 | Comments Off
In Buttonwood: Something’s Gotta Give (November 19th, 2009), the Economist nicely summarizes the odd conundrum taking place in the economy today: LIKE a truck rolling downhill, the rally in risky assets is proving hard to stop. Good economic news causes share prices to rise because it indicates the recovery is robust; bad economic news also [...]
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by Andrew White | December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
Information Management ran an interesting article yesterday: “You Build it, You Break It, You Fix It: Why Applications Must Be Responsible for Data Quality” The premise of the article is that business applications often create data for their own use, and this data is often used in other applications. If the original application shares data [...]
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by Andrew White | December 2, 2009 | Comments Off
A colleague of mine, Carol Rozwell, shared an article with me that she had seen in her mail. She had spied an article on MDM in Forbes – Mastering Data Management. Great coverage for what remains a relatively new topic (resolving a very old problem). Nice to see a well established old economy magazine with [...]
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