Andrew White

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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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, Senior [...]

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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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This book (The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success) arrived yesterday – and I had to read it overnight!  What does that tell you about my sleeping habits?  All kidding aside, I did read rather quickly Tony Fisher’s new book, sent to me by DataFlux (many thanks).  I found the [...]

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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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I read today a good article on data quality, and specifically how to measure data quality (see How to Measure and Monitor the Quality of Master Data).  Looking at the article I noted several items that relate to published Gartner material, so the content looks familiar and has some proof points and experience behind it. [...]

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It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its MDM Product Data Offering With Oracle Product Data Quality Cleansing and Matching Server)   This is not [...]

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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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Sanjay Kumar, head of data management for Satyam Computer Services Limited, was quoted today in an Information Management article called, “5 Data Quality Management Steps for MDM”.  The article highlights how MDM won’t deliver the benefits if some DQ effort is not undertaken.  I would like to meet the user who implemented something they call, [...]

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This week was, of course, spent at our annual Gartner IT Expo/Symposium.  As usual it was a very busy week, presenting and meeting with customers 1-1.  It is always fun to meet so many customers over a short period of time – and looking at the vast array and breadth of issues they have, even [...]

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