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 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 | May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
This bombshell fell this week. Several of my colleagues have blogged on this already, namely Gene Alvarez (representing e-Commerce) and Benoit Lheureux (representing B2B integration). Both provide some interesting insight as to what the impact will be on these parts of the market. I have followed B2B and Sterling Commerce, and some of its parts, [...]
Category: IBM Multienterprise Tags: B2B, BPP, IBM, ME-BPP, Multienterprise, Sterling Commerce
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 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Seems the rumors from last week were well founded. IBM released the following press release: Strengthens IBM’s Ability to Help Healthcare and Government Sectors Use Information to Improve Public Health and Services. So another MDM vendors get’s acquired. There are only a few smaller MDM of Customer and MDM of Product data, and generalists, left. [...]
Category: Customer Data Integration (CDI) IBM MDM of Customer Data Tags:
by Andrew White | January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
I was sent a link to a story in December, Winning over the MDM Chief Procurement Officer with MDM, (thanks Debbie) that I found interesting. The article is based on some vendor (Bristlecone Inc.) content (not always a bad thing), but the thing that I found most interesting was the source link referred to in [...]
Category: Customer Data Integration (CDI) IBM Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: CDI, IBM, PIM
by Andrew White | October 29, 2008 | Comments Off
I had the good fortune to attend IBM’s user conference this week in Las Vegas. Apparently over 7,000 folks attended – covering all of IBM IOD oriented technologies that span business intelligence, content management, and data management. First I had a few main observations: Key Note: IBM did not make any significant announcements at [...]
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Category: Convergence BA/BI IBM SAP Tags: Convergence of Business Apps (BA) and Business Intellig, IBM, Performance Management, SAP
