Andrew White

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A Week is a Long Time in Research

by Andrew White  |  September 4, 2009  |  Comments Off

Well that was a fun week.  I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research.  And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]

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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM Summit MDM of Product Data Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SCM SaaS     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: ,

What value MDM to business-to-business (B2B)?

by Andrew White  |  January 27, 2009  |  Comments Off

Yesterday I had the good fortune of attending the sales kick-off meeting for Inovis, a B2B vendor.  I was invited in order to get an update on the vendor and to hear the vision for 2009 from the management team.     MDM was very prominent in the vision.  In fact, several of my favorite topics [...]

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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Multienterprise Product Information Management (PIM)     Tags: , , ,

SaaS moves the process boundary, does not necessarily change the process, and can make integration of master data more complex.

by Andrew White  |  January 6, 2009  |  1 Comment

I took a fascinating briefing today from a vendor that has announced a SaaS-based Order Management offering.  I took the briefing in order to discover how the vendor had solved the problem of integrating the use of master data across the enterprise firewall; this has to be an issue for any user of SaaS-based business [...]

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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM SaaS     Tags: , ,