Entries Categorized as 'Business Applications'
by Andrew White | April 3, 2013 | Comments Off
For the last couple of days I had the pleasure of sitting down with numerous attendees at our North American BPM summit here in Maryland, DC. Even though the weather and the cherry tree blossom was wooing us away, we stayed in the hotel to talk about ‘data’ and ‘process’ and – predictably – which [...]
Category: Business and IT Business Applications Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rules Data Governance Data Quality Data Stewardship Information Governance Master Data Management Tags:
by Andrew White | February 21, 2013 | Comments Off
Just coming off a successful couple of summits in Barcelona, Spain, and about to head off to another BI, BPM and MDM summit cycle across the pond (UK) and then around the US. Hope we get to meet! Janelle Hill talking about BPM summit with an overview: http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-process/media.jsp I am speaking at the BPM summit [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Intelligence Data Stewardship Information Governance Master Data Management MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
by Andrew White | February 14, 2013 | 4 Comments
I had another of those calls with an end user today that I have all too frequently. The emphasis on M&A was a little more than normal, but the underlying premise and my response was predictable. It went like this (and I include some actual quotes): Setting: Consumer Goods Manufacture We are acquisitive; we are [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Case Data Governance Data Quality Information Governance Master Data Management MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
by Andrew White | July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
Sorry folks – been way too busy to post anything for a while. Trying to wrap-up the MDM Hype Cycle and an MDM Magic Quadrant at the same time, while supporting increases in MDM inquiries, sales calls, and travel. I can see a more “normal” time coming up end August….here’s to hoping, anyway. Here’s a blog [...]
Category: Business Applications ERP Master Data MDM Tags: Business Applications, Governance, Master Data, MDM
by Andrew White | July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Why is there no simple, automated, or formalized, blue print for getting MDM going? I was talking with a sales person today who wanted help to initiate a dialog with a client that we knew had an MDM “issue”. We explored several ways we could help the client with respect to MDM, and as a result of the [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information Tags: Business Drivers, MDM
by Andrew White | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Some of my colleagues just published a note updating users on Infor’s recent user group (see Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?) . Did you say, “who’s Infor?” Despite its age, Infor is a $2bn+ business applications vendor that has, over several years, acquired multiple ERP, CRM, SCM and PLM offerings. See archived research Infor [...]
Category: Business Applications ERP SOA Tags: Business Applications, Infor, SOA
