by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
I read with great interest Jim Ericson’s blog of March 23rd, 2010, entitled, “Governance: A Rulebook, not a Playbook“. Jim was reviewing the growing interest in “governance” and its importance to how organizations manage information. One part of the blog I didn’t “get” or at least I think I disagree with; one point I agreed [...]
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by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
TIBCO announced yesterday that it had acquired Netrics, a small, private vendor that deals with data quality (matching) technology. The press release stated a direct connection with Netrics value-add and TIBCO MDM, data governance and event-driven solutions. Clearly data quality is applicable to many kinds of data integration and data management routines. MDM is one such [...]
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Category: Data Quality MDM TIBCO Tags:
by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
This week I had an inquiry with a very nervous end user organization. They had been busily reading our research, and due to the breadth and depth of the content, spanning as we do the whole of IT, the client had come to a cold, stark realization. MDM was their hot button, their top priority [...]
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Category: Information Architecture Master Data Lifecycle MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | March 19, 2010 | 5 Comments
I think this is a silly question. Firstly let me be more specific: Can you achieve MDM without governance of master data? The answer is, “no”. MDM includes governance of master data – otherwise it isn’t MDM. If someone tells you either: They have adopted MDM and have yet to get governance sorted out, or Governance [...]
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by Andrew White | March 15, 2010 | Comments Off
What a great weekend! All soccer was cancelled (due to rain) so I didn’t have to run kids around the country, or coach my little one, or have to referee some of the older ones. I took the time to watch some rugby (England versus Scotland), and the season opener for Formula 1 (where 41 [...]
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by Andrew White | March 11, 2010 | Comments Off
During the Wipro analyst day 2010 I heard updates on the corporate strategy and go-to-market. The key take-away is that Wipro strategically is aligning with the idea that the key to competitive advantage (for the end user organization) lays not within a single organization, but from collaboration between networks of organizations. As Kirk Strawser, Managing [...]
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by Andrew White | March 10, 2010 | Comments Off
I received an interesting inquiry today that took me back to the time when I was working in industry. The question I received was: “XXXXXX currently utilizes a 5-digit internal product code field to identify product for ordering, sales, inventory, etc. Question: How do other organizations like us address their product management, i.e. unique id, [...]
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by Andrew White | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
Scoreline: MDM 2 v Business Applications 1 Over the last few weeks I have met with many end user organizations that continue to struggle with “making MDM work well with ERP” systems. And when say ERP systems, I mean “any business application”. The problem is that many, if not all, business application bring with them [...]
Category: Application Architecture ERP MDM Aware Tags: Business Applications, ERP, Governance, MDM, MDM Aware
by Andrew White | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
I heard by way of a Kinaxis newsletter, that reported (via Bob Ferarri’s SCM blog), that Dr. Tom Mentzer passed away February 28th 2010. I had the good fortune of meeting Tom many times. I always looked to Tom as a thought leader in the SCM arena, specifically in demand management and demand planning. I [...]
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by Andrew White | March 1, 2010 | Comments Off
I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users. Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users. Traditionally “Finance MDM” or [...]
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