by Andrew White | August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
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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Category: ERP MDM of Asset SOA Tags: Asset MDM, ERP, MDM and SOA
by Andrew White | July 9, 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 [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information Tags: Business Drivers, 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 | January 28, 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 [...]
Category: ERP Master Data Lifecycle MDM Siperian Tags: ERP, Hub Solutions, Master Data Lifecycle, Siperian
by Andrew White | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off
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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Category: Business Applications ERP SOA Tags: Business Applications, Infor, SOA
by Andrew White | November 10, 2008 | Comments Off
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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Category: Data Migration ERP Tags: Data Migration, ERP
