Andrew White

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Entries Tagged as 'Business Drivers'

How do you get started with MDM?

July 9th, 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 conversation, [...]

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

A tale of two MDM initiatives…

June 19th, 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 [...]

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Tags: Business Case · Business Drivers · Business Intelligence · Data Quality · ERP · Enterprise Information Management (EIM) · Governance · Implementation · MDM · Operational MDM

Social Software to help enterprises to outperform?

January 30th, 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 [...]

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Tags: Business Drivers · Social Software