Andrew White

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Entries Categorized as 'Analytical MDM'


Can you “do” MDM without data quality?

by Andrew White  |  August 24, 2009  |  Comments Off

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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Review of Article focused on Microsoft Strategy to address MDM Market

by Andrew White  |  June 22, 2009  |  Comments Off

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, [...]

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Trip Report – Day 3 at Gartner’s BI Summit

by Andrew White  |  March 16, 2009  |  Comments Off

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 [...]

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Best of Breed MDM versus Generalist MDM – which is best?

by Andrew White  |  January 29, 2009  |  4 Comments

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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