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The Differences, and Similarities, between Operational MDM and Analytical MDM

by Andrew White  |  November 10, 2009  |  1 Comment

We finally published a note (see The Differences, and Similarities, between Operational MDM and Analytical MDM) that tries to get the bottom of this thorny issue.  It has taken a while, but it is worth it.  This should be “the” note that nails the key questions most users have asked over the last couple of [...]

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New Research Published – Get Ready for Content in the Cloud

by Andrew White  |  December 15, 2008  |  Comments Off

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 [...]

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Category: Cloud Data Integration/Synchronization SaaS     Tags: ,

Making MDM Work Better

by Andrew White  |  November 7, 2008  |  Comments Off

Making MDM work   We are just wrapping up the final preparations for our upcoming Gartner MDM Summit (November 17th-19th, Chicago, IL) and John Radcliffe and I were developing some ideas related to how MDM will develop in the future.  One of the threads proving to be interesting concerns how MDM systems and other data [...]

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Category: Data Integration/Synchronization MDM Semantics     Tags: ,