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:
by Andrew White | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
It was predictable, but Kalido has upped the ante in Governance land with the recent announcement of their new Data Governance Director™. Kalido, a BI/data warehouse vendor that moved some years ago also into the MDM market, has extended its reach nicely with a new product aimed at data governance. Many so called MDM offerings [...]
Category: Governance MDM SAP Tags: Data Governance, Kalido, MDM
by Andrew White | April 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Users have, for years, been using structured and unstructured data in their business process: numerous public services (structured processes related to how citizens and subjects apply for services include lots of paperwork) construction of businesses (semi structured processes, informal processes, produce a lot of paperwork that has to be interpreted for operational uses that follows [...]
Category: Content Management Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Governance Master Data MDM Structured Data Tags:
by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
I read with great interest Jim Ericson’s blog of March 23rd, 2010, entitled, “Governance: A Rulebook, not a Playbook“. Jim was reviewing the growing interest in “governance” and its importance to how organizations manage information. One part of the blog I didn’t “get” or at least I think I disagree with; one point I agreed [...]
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by Andrew White | March 19, 2010 | 5 Comments
I think this is a silly question. Firstly let me be more specific: Can you achieve MDM without governance of master data? The answer is, “no”. MDM includes governance of master data – otherwise it isn’t MDM. If someone tells you either: They have adopted MDM and have yet to get governance sorted out, or Governance [...]
Category: Application Architecture Governance Information Architecture MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | March 10, 2010 | Comments Off
I received an interesting inquiry today that took me back to the time when I was working in industry. The question I received was: “XXXXXX currently utilizes a 5-digit internal product code field to identify product for ordering, sales, inventory, etc. Question: How do other organizations like us address their product management, i.e. unique id, [...]
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Category: Governance MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | March 1, 2010 | Comments Off
I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users. Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users. Traditionally “Finance MDM” or [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Governance Hierarchy Management IBM Kalido Microsoft Operational MDM Oracle Tags:
by Andrew White | February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely that there is an uplift in MDM adoption and an acceleration in delivery timeframes,” says Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. “The [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite angles included: Business users tend, if you are luck, to accept that they “own” process, but few accept that they do, or [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | October 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
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”. [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Governance Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Governance, Operational MDM
