by Andrew White | February 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
I did a joint customer call today with a colleague of mine, Ted Friedman. Ted is our main man in “data quality” world and as you can imagine, Ted does a lot of MDM related inquiries with customers since you can’t sustain MDM without the right dose of data quality. Well, we were speaking with [...]
Category: Business and IT Data Quality MDM Tags: Business and IT, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
TIBCO announced yesterday that it had acquired Netrics, a small, private vendor that deals with data quality (matching) technology. The press release stated a direct connection with Netrics value-add and TIBCO MDM, data governance and event-driven solutions. Clearly data quality is applicable to many kinds of data integration and data management routines. MDM is one such [...]
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by Andrew White | February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
I received an email today from SupplyChainManagementReview that included am intriguing message, “The State of Data”. Enthused, I rapidly opened up the email. I could not read the thing on my PDA so I kept the email in my inbox to read when I had a free moment. Later I opened the email again hoping [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM SAS Dataflux Tags:
by Andrew White | February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely that there is an uplift in MDM adoption and an acceleration in delivery timeframes,” says Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. “The [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite angles included: Business users tend, if you are luck, to accept that they “own” process, but few accept that they do, or [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Oracle announced it acquired Silver Creek Systems, a small, independent, product data quality vendor. Many organizations that buy, make, convert, or sell products (both virtual and physical) have uniquely complex data quality issues. Silver Creek Systems had focused on this problem area. Oracle decided – at long last – to take Silver Creek off the [...]
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Category: Data Quality MDM of Product Data Oracle Product Information Management (PIM) Reference Data Semantics Silver Creek Systems Tags:
by Andrew White | December 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
Information Management ran an interesting article yesterday: “You Build it, You Break It, You Fix It: Why Applications Must Be Responsible for Data Quality” The premise of the article is that business applications often create data for their own use, and this data is often used in other applications. If the original application shares data [...]
Category: Application Architecture Data Quality MDM Tags: Application Architecture, MDM. Data Quality
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 [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Data Integration/Synchronization Data Quality MDM Operational MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL). IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities facing SCM leaders. I will share more on this later – but there was an interesting case study by Wrigley. Wrigley’s Kristen Daihes, [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM SCM Tags: Data Quality, MDM, SCM
by Andrew White | August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs. It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson. I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons. I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality? Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Data Quality MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Data Quality, MDM, Operational MDM
