by Andrew White | August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Quality, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Business Intelligence Data Quality Enterprise Information Management (EIM) ERP Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
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. [...]
Category: Data Quality Tags: Data Quality
by Andrew White | April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: Data Quality, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PIM, Product Information Management (PIM)
by Andrew White | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
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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Category: Business Intelligence Data Quality Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Quality
by Andrew White | February 20, 2009 | 10 Comments
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, [...]
Category: Data Quality Defining Master Data Tags: Data Quality, Master Data, Metadata, Satyam
by Andrew White | October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM Tags: Data Quality
