by Andrew White | January 29, 2010 | Comments Off
A one-page article, “The Link between exchange rates and asset markets”, in the print edition of the Economist, January 16th, 2010, explores the changing relationship over time between currency exchange rates and prices of assets. Over the last 100 years we have all experimented with systems that fixed, linked, then floated, currency exchange rates between [...]
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by Andrew White | January 29, 2010 | Comments Off
I bet you can’t resist it! Of course, at times we are acting in “sales mode” (maybe more times than we admit) but given the hot debates internal (to Gartner) and on blogs around the place, I’d recommend coming to the next annual Gartner MDM Summit in April. I don’t know of an event where [...]
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by Andrew White | January 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
Informatica announces today its acquisition of best of breed MDM vendor Siperian. Siperian primarily (historically) focused on MDM of party data (such as patient, customer etc), but more recently started to sell into other master data domains. The move is a great sign for the MDM market – it shows the growth we saw through [...]
Category: MDM MDM of Customer Data Tags: MDM, MDM of Customer Data, Siperian
by Andrew White | January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite angles included: Business users tend, if you are luck, to accept that they “own” process, but few accept that they do, or [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
Talend, a vendor focused on providing open source data integration, announced in a press release today, “Introduces Rapid, Flexible, Open Source Master Data Management Solution.” The press release includes the enticing phrase, ‘With the launch, Talend is democratizing the MDM market”. Sounds too good to be true. And if it does, it very probably is. [...]
Category: MDM Open Source MDM Tags: MDM, Open Source, Open Source MDM, Telend
by Andrew White | January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Though the markets don’t like it, President Obama made a good move today, in my view, with a plan to limit the exposure of our money to risks banks take. The Glass-Steagell act was put in place in 1933 to help protect depositor money from being used by banks in highly risky market-based activities. The [...]
by Andrew White | January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
Information Management ran another story on one of my favorite overall “themes” – that there will emerge a semantic enterprise. In, “The Semantic Web: A Perfect Complement to Master Data Management”, January 11th, J. Brooker Aker calls out what, to me, is pretty obvious: “…[T]he semantic Web offers quick and precise data analysis for enterprise [...]
by Andrew White | January 7, 2010 | Comments Off
Two stories in the Financial Times (US print edition, January 4th) suggest that the impacts of the current recession will continue long in to our future – there will be no quick return to “as it was”. The majority of news these days focuses on the demand side of the financial crises; that is, how [...]
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by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Oracle announced it acquired Silver Creek Systems, a small, independent, product data quality vendor. Many organizations that buy, make, convert, or sell products (both virtual and physical) have uniquely complex data quality issues. Silver Creek Systems had focused on this problem area. Oracle decided – at long last – to take Silver Creek off the [...]
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by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
The Financial Times ran a report yesterday (January 4th) in its USA print edition that highlights how Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is planning to save money by focusing again on its famous supply chain. This time, consolidated spend is the focus for ever greater leverage over smaller numbers of suppliers; and the removal of [...]
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