by Andrew White | February 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Economist, print edition, January 23rd – 29th 2010: Railways and Slime Mold: A life of slime. Research has shown that for a given set of constraints (nodes, as in a network of locations, and a need to travel between nodes), slime mold seems to develop a very efficient structure. The testing applied slime mold to [...]
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by Andrew White | February 12, 2010 | Comments Off
When I was about 12 or 14 my dad lent me this book – How to live with a neurotic dog, by Stephen Baker. It was published in 1960 and the version I had was a paperback, with a pink cover and scruffy dog on the cover. I loved the book – it was so [...]
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by Andrew White | February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
I received an email today from SupplyChainManagementReview that included am intriguing message, “The State of Data”. Enthused, I rapidly opened up the email. I could not read the thing on my PDA so I kept the email in my inbox to read when I had a free moment. Later I opened the email again hoping [...]
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by Andrew White | February 10, 2010 | Comments Off
Enterprise Informatics, a niche vendor focused on MDM of asset data (which happens to unify mastery and management of structured and content…) announced yesterday that it had been acquired by Bentley Systems. Bentley Systems is an industry oriented software and solutions company, focused on design and operations of large scale infrastructure (roads, water etc). Vendors [...]
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by Andrew White | February 9, 2010 | 8 Comments
Did you notice the slight change in messaging and positioning that Informatica is making with its acquisition of Siperian? Siperian was focused on messaging a business solution; whereas in the latest marketing information from Informatica, the Siperian stuff is described as a “MDM infrastructure”. I think this is a talking point. What does this signal? [...]
Category: Informatica MDM Siperian Tags: Informatica, MDM, Siperian
by Andrew White | February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely that there is an uplift in MDM adoption and an acceleration in delivery timeframes,” says Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. “The [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | February 3, 2010 | 17 Comments
During the day I exchanged a dialog John Radcliffe today regarding the recent flurry of acquisitions in the MDM market. Rather tongue-in-check I suggested that “MDM as we know it is dead, as of today” and that “we will soon have to invent a new name to describe where all this is headed – how [...]
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by Andrew White | February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Seems the rumors from last week were well founded. IBM released the following press release: Strengthens IBM’s Ability to Help Healthcare and Government Sectors Use Information to Improve Public Health and Services. So another MDM vendors get’s acquired. There are only a few smaller MDM of Customer and MDM of Product data, and generalists, left. [...]
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by Andrew White | February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
Yves de Montcheuil of Talend, an OSS vendor that just released an OSS MDM offering, commented on a post of mine, defending (quite rightly) his organizations view of their OSS MDM solution. One comment he made in his post made me think. The comment I thought about was “cost”. MDM accrues a cost to an [...]
Category: Open Source MDM Talend Tags: OSS MDM, Talend
by Andrew White | February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
Why does business never get on well with IT? CIO Insight referred to an upcoming book, 8 Things We Hate About IT, by Susan Cramm, and the headline reminded me of my most notable (real) work experience when I was a user. The experienced starred out in business, then moved ever closer to IT, but [...]
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