by Andrew White | April 29, 2011 | Comments Off
My colleagues Roxane Edjlali and Kurt Schlegel just published a note titled, “Extending MDM Principles to BI Content”. This was an interesting piece of research that highlights a logical argument, but also a warning. The argument is that mastering (ie governing for value generating re-use) important enterprise information such as master data should not be [...]
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by Andrew White | January 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
I spotted a great article that highlighted a classic issue. I research Master Data Management; and many other analysts at Gartner and elsewhere research this topic and many others. We often conclude at times that there is a “right” way to do things; a predictable way for technology to be used. We assume this about [...]
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by Andrew White | September 11, 2009 | 6 Comments
I had one of those client calls today that brought into sharp focus something that had avoided such clarity. Many of us have known that MDM and BI have a relationship; some mistakenly associate the two as if they are alternatives: I have heard some even think that MDM “needs” BI. But, the reality is [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence Business Rules MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytic MDM, BI, Business Rules, MDM, Operational 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 | 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 ERP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Well that was a strange day (actually it was a day last week) that had it all. Most of the work day was on the telephone with back-to-back calls with clients. There were one or two briefings (where vendors present some for analytsts to listen and learn) but most of the day wasspent talking with end [...]
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Category: Business Intelligence Decision Making Tags: Business Intelligence, Decision Making
by Andrew White | March 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Well I had a busy day – even though this was day 3. I had a number of client inquiries and 1-1’s on site, and I also presented on MDM just after lunch. Then I had another client call and had to dash to the airport. Overall the event was really good. There were [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence Tags: Analytical MDM, Business Intelligence
by Andrew White | March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
Other than being a lovely day outside (whoever sees ‘outside’ when at a conference anyway?) this was another packed day. It started out for me with an early ‘roundtable’ with a number of attendees. The focus was MDM. It turned out that only 1 of the roundtable participants had started an MDM program, and that had [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Governance Tags: Business Intelligence, Governance
by Andrew White | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”. The key take-away for me was that despite the importance IT puts on BI (it has been the top priority for IT, according to CIO [...]
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