Andrew White

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”. [...]

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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 master [...]

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I spoke with an end user the other day that had a pretty forward looking strategy as it related to MDM, and specifically MDM of Product Data.  When we talk about MDM of Product Data, there are assumptions that we all make – and these might be different.  Is MDM of Product Data a sell-side [...]

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I had one of those client calls today that brought into sharp focus something that had avoided such clarity.  Many of us have known that MDM and BI have a relationship; some mistakenly associate the two as if they are alternatives: I have heard some even think that MDM “needs” BI.  But, the reality is [...]

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I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs.   It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson.  I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons.  I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality?  Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]

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It is not in my nature to use blogs to argue of topics that require detailed exchange of information and analysis…but the following article was brought to my attention and I thought it a potentially good example of “vendor hype” even it was not directly provided by the vendor.  
Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference, wrote [...]

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Well I had a busy day – even though this was day 3.  I had a number of client inquiries and 1-1’s on site, and I also presented on MDM just after lunch.  Then I had another client call and had to dash to the airport. 
 
Overall the event was really good.  There were a [...]

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I took a briefing from Orchestra Networks yesterday, a French based MDM vendor, that allowed me to explore again the comparison between the idea of what a best-of-breed or specialist MDM vendor can do versus a generalist MDM vendor.  Of course, the answer is in how these vendor categories are defined.  And once we have [...]

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