by Andrew White | December 13, 2011 | Comments Off
SAP always puts on a good show. 2011 is no different. This is the best place for analyst to go to get the annual brain dump on what is SAP’s strategy and how is SAP planning to evolve in the next year. There are always many events each year – SAP Sapphire, TechEd, and so [...]
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by Andrew White | July 15, 2011 | Comments Off
I spent 3 long days with back to back calls with users in and around Minneapolis. I knew it would be a busy week but I had no idea how it would develop. I sat on the plane coming home last night, and it was one of those surreal flights you experience from time to [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) MDM Tags: EIM, MDM
by Andrew White | June 21, 2011 | Comments Off
I was reading my monthly Health Data Management magazine and two articles fell into my lap. One concerning PCAST “universal exchange language” that promises to provide informational interoperability across the healthcare systems, and the other concerning electronic health records. PCAST published a report (Report to the President Realizing the full potential of Health IT to [...]
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Category: EHR Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Healthcare PCAST Tags: EHR, Healthcare, PCAST
by Andrew White | March 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was talking with a chap today about their MDM program. He worked for a company that had the good fortune of aligning their MDM efforts with a large scale, enterprise wide systems overhaul. Talk about lucky! Most clients I interact with have to attempt MDM “one step at a time”. It turns out that [...]
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by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Just spotted an interesting article: “MDM: Don’t Give Up“. In the checklist for MDM that is posted, item 1 happens to reinforce one of the two key points I concluded at the end my blog, (A Tale of Two MDM Initiatives): “Do you have [before you go to far with MDM] an information management strategy?” Interesting [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) MDM SOA Tags: Enterprise Information Management (EIM), MDM, SOA
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 ERP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | December 9, 2008 | Comments Off
Deb Logan, a colleague of mine, just published a note (see Enterprise Information Management Revisited: Foundations, Progress and Futures) that nicely updates us on the state of Enterprise Information Management (EIM). Nestled in the note is also a description that relates this holistic information management strategy with numerous other initiatives including MDM. The [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Tags: EIM
