by Andrew White | September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
This program was meant to have provided for a “fully integrated electronic care records system across the NHS”. As reported today in ComputerWeekly.com, it seems this was just too hard to do. The decision was to cancel the national program and encourage each regional GP’s to choose their own IT systems. Ouch. So one central [...]
Category: Governance Healthcare Standardization Tags:
by Andrew White | September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
I just spent a day with an end user organization trying to get its information governance program launched using Master Data Management as the vehicle. Despite the opportunity, despite the conditions that seem favorable for MDM, and despite the multi-stakeholder willingness to participate, getting MDM off the ground is hard work. And like with most [...]
Category: Business Case Governance Heiler Kalido MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | September 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I had one of those inquiries with a user last week that you hate to have. The call started off well enough. The client described a business scenario that is all too common: global company, independent business units, heterogeneous environment, some ERP program, lots of CRM, a new shiny BI plan, yet realization that underpinning [...]
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Category: Change Management Governance MDM Tags: Change Management, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
I don’t blog about vendors often. Firstly it is a big risk since I can’t really talk about a position that is in contrast to Gartner’s stated position. Second, there is little point reiterating a previously stated position, since there is not much value in repetition. So it’s best not to worry about vendors at [...]
Category: Governance Kalido MDM Tags: Data Governance, Information Governance, Kalido, Master Data Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 10, 2011 | Comments Off
I spotted this short but interesting article today in Information Management, called Getting Data Right at the Source, by Don Steffen. I could not agree more with its main point. The bottom line is found in the last paragraph: “Enhancements to ERP applications should have impact analysis for downstream applications, and downstream applications should be [...]
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Category: ERP Governance MDM Tags: ERP, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
I commented (the other day) on an idea: use a maximized metadata model in an MDM program, tied to a minimalist master data model.” Are Hegdal commented and asked me to say more about this. What I have seen, over and over again, as I talk with more mature users who have adopted MDM is [...]
Category: Governance MDM Metadata Management Tags:
by Andrew White | October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
I had a pleasurable experience while at IBM’s IOD conference last week. Whenever I see a book store at a vendor conference, I generally take time to browse through what’s on offer – just to get a feel for what the vendor is exposing to the attendees. There were lots of books on DB/2 and [...]
Category: Governance IBM MDM Master Data Lifecycle Tags: Data Governance, IBM, MDM
by Andrew White | October 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Steve Mills kicked off day 2 with his usual gusto with an InfoSphere Keynote. Steve is always passionate about this turn and he lived up to expectations. He nicely highlighted insights from IBM’s recent CEO survey. The number one condition CEO’s are concerned with is “increasing complexity” in their business and environment, and the primary [...]
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Category: Big Data Governance MDM Tags: Big Data, Governance, IBM IOD, MDM
by Andrew White | October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
At IBM’s IOD event – another busy week on the road. Last week was our annual Symposium event. More on that later. IBM IOD is always a fun event. Over 10,000 folks are in Las Vegas (according to IBM) – including DBA’s, enterprise architects, master data managers, BI managers and so on. The key-notes are [...]
Category: Governance IBM Tags: Governance, IBM IOD, MDM
by Andrew White | June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Fascinating start to the event: key note by Brigadier Alan Clacher OBE, Head of Logistics Information Systems, UK Ministry of Defence, gave a great presentation on how the MOD adopted a broad based SOA strategy across its own application and information architecture along with its primary suppliers. The pitch emphasized a few things: Your enterprise [...]
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Category: Governance MDM SOA Tags:
