Andrew White

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 [...]

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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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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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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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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 a [...]

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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 [...]

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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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