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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cloud Computing'
A Week is a Long Time in Research
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Business to Business (B2B) · Cloud Computing · MDM · MDM Summit · MDM of Product Data · Multidomain MDM · Multienterprise · Operational MDM · Procurement MDM · Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) · Regulation/Compliance · SCM · SaaS
SaaS moves the process boundary, does not necessarily change the process, and can make integration of master data more complex.
January 6th, 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 [...]
Tags: Business to Business (B2B) · Cloud Computing · MDM · SaaS
New Research Published – Get Ready for Content in the Cloud
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Toby Bell, a colleague of mine at Gartner, just published a note called, Get Ready for Content in the Cloud. The note focuses on the rapid growth likely to be seen in content and services in SaaS deployment models, which exist outside of the firewall and hence in the “cloud”. When the word “content” is [...]
Tags: Cloud Computing · Data Integration/Synchronization · SaaS