Andrew White

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How should MDM solutions support/enable business processes?

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 [...]

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Category: Business Applications ERP MDM Master Data     Tags: , , ,

How do you get started with 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 [...]

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Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information     Tags: ,

New Research Published – Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?

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 [...]

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Category: Business Applications ERP SOA     Tags: , ,