by Andrew White | February 21, 2013 | Comments Off
Wall Street Journal, Print Edition, January 18, 2013: “A Little Digging Unmasks DNA Donor Names”. The article highlighted how researchers were able to match data that was anonymously stored from one person (DNA) and other data that is publically available describing distant relatives of the donors. The effort is not light, but with today’s increasing [...]
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Category: Big Data Business Case Business Drivers Information Governance Information Trust MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
by Andrew White | October 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Very, very busy day but somehow the energy levels keep on coming. The questions keep on coming too – and that is what seems to excite and generate adrenalin. Another great day. Main take away, after speaking to numerous large and midsize organizations: Though the concept of Master Data Management might arguably be generally understood [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Content Governance Data Governance Data Quality Data Stewardship Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Gartner IT/Expo Gartner IT/Expo 2012 Information Governance Information Trust Master Data Management Tags:
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 | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B). Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Business Intelligence Data Quality Enterprise Information Management (EIM) ERP Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
A few Gartner analysts compared notes after reading this blog by Craig Roth at Burton Group Blogs. The take away from the blog, aptly named, The Elephant in the Social Software Room, was that many firms do not like the idea of organizational; and departmental boundaries being broken down in the name of “free information [...]
Category: Business Drivers Social Software Tags: Business Drivers, Social Software
