by Andrew White | April 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
On the one hand, Master Data Management (MDM) is everywhere. It seems wherever I travel to, someone has an MDM program, or a project (depending on their level of understanding of what MDM is). However, as I have blogged recently, it seems things are getting a little of out hand. All manner of discontinuities with [...]
Category: Application Architecture Applications Best Practices Enterprise Information Management (EIM) ERP Hype Cycle Information Architecture Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | November 28, 2012 | Comments Off
I had a most rewarding and busy day today. First up were a number of 1-1’s with end user organization (and the odd vendor) to things going. I took several questions that were more educational about what is MDM, and about how to get started with MDM. More importantly (and in context to the summit), [...]
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Category: Application Architecture Applications Information Governance Master Data Management MDM MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I have started up my travels for the fall season already! IT seems that summer is almost over; the kids are back at school and the average temperatures are home are dropping. I have been walking my dog at 6am in 90 degrees (the cool part of the day) but the last couple of mornings [...]
Category: Application Architecture Applications ERP MDM Tags: Application Specific Data, ERP, MDM
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 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 | December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
Information Management ran an interesting article yesterday: “You Build it, You Break It, You Fix It: Why Applications Must Be Responsible for Data Quality” The premise of the article is that business applications often create data for their own use, and this data is often used in other applications. If the original application shares data [...]
Category: Application Architecture Data Quality MDM Tags: Application Architecture, MDM. Data Quality
