Andrew White

I blogged yesterday about two of the main use-cases of MDM: operational MDM and analytical MDM.  Mark Beyer and I would “argue” if there was a way to denote the primary difference of the two, with respect to governance.  I explained that in operational MDM, governance is “active” and in analytical MDM, governance is “passive”. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Other than being a lovely day outside (whoever sees ‘outside’ when at a conference anyway?) this was another packed day.  It started out for me with an early ‘roundtable’ with a number of attendees.  The focus was MDM.  It turned out that only 1 of the roundtable participants had started an MDM program, and that had [...]

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Quite astonishingly the FT reported Friday (IMF slashes 2009 growth forecasts) that global trade fell during December 2008 at an annualized rate of 40%.  That is just mind boggling – such contractions imply economy-stopping falls in demand, and supply.  However, though this looks alarming the reality is that such falls cannot establish new (low) levels [...]

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The highlight for me was the Gartner MDM Excellence Award, of course.  On Tuesday Asian Paints, Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, and State Street bank presented their MDM journeys to the audience.  These three speakers were the three “finalists” selected from among a group of users that had been submitted for the industry’s first Excellence Award. [...]

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We had a great first day!  The attendance at the event was very good indeed; the opening session was packed.  Despite the economic slow down and noticeable number of cancellations more users attended the event than last year which is testament to the importance of MDM – in touch times as well as good times.
 
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