Andrew White

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Mastering Asset Information

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Sometimes even I am flabbergasted at the rate at which research get’s published Gartner.  It can be a veritable fire-hose of stuff – I am sure hard for some users to keep up with.  A few notes snuck out in the last couple days.  Here are three of my favorite notes (and they are not [...]

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Tags: ERP · MDM of Asset · SOA

How do you get started with MDM?

July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Why is there no simple, automated, or formalized, blue print for getting MDM going?
I was talking with a sales person today who wanted help to initiate a dialog with a client that we knew had an MDM “issue”.  We explored several ways we could help the client with respect to MDM, and as a result of the conversation, [...]

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Tags: Business Applications · Business Drivers · Business Intelligence · Business to Business (B2B) · Cost Optimization · Data Migration · ERP · Implementation · MDM · Value from Information

A tale of two MDM initiatives…

June 19th, 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 [...]

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Tags: Business Case · Business Drivers · Business Intelligence · Data Quality · ERP · Enterprise Information Management (EIM) · Governance · Implementation · MDM · Operational MDM

More on ERP and MDM – apples and oranges?

January 28th, 2009 · 7 Comments

I received a newsletter from Hub Solution Design, an MDM services vendors, and in that newsletter was an invitation for a webinar hosted by Siperian, an MDM vendors, and Hub Solutions.  The title of the webinar was, “Top 5 Reasons Not to Master Your Data in SAP ERP”.  The invitation said that the webinar will [...]

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Tags: ERP · MDM · Master Data Lifecycle · Siperian

New Research Published – Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?

January 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Some of my colleagues just published a note updating users on Infor’s recent user group (see Inforum 2008: The Infor Brand Emerges?) .  Did you say, “who’s Infor?”  Despite its age, Infor is a $2bn+ business applications vendor that has, over several years, acquired multiple ERP, CRM, SCM and PLM offerings.  See archived research Infor [...]

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Tags: Business Applications · ERP · SOA

Should you “do” MDM before you “do” ERP?

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

This question came up today while visiting a customer and it’s a question that is been on the mind of many end users.  As they consider some ERP project, perhaps a migration, or some upgrade, they wonder, “Should I concern myself with MDM before I do this project, or should I worry about MDM afterward?”
 
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Tags: Data Migration · ERP