Andrew White

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Entries Categorized as 'Master Data Lifecycle'


13 minutes a week – what your data steward should be doing

by Andrew White  |  July 5, 2012  |  3 Comments

I came up with this idea a few weeks ago.  As usual, I was doing call after call on one of those busy days when it became clear to me that I was saying the same thing over and over again.  Not exactly the same thing of course, but I spotted a pattern.  I came [...]

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IBM Data Governance Unified Process

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 [...]

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MDM without an Architect – Go or No Go?

by Andrew White  |  March 26, 2010  |  Comments Off

This week I had an inquiry with a very nervous end user organization.  They had been busily reading our research, and due to the breadth and depth of the content, spanning as we do the whole of IT, the client had come to a cold, stark realization.  MDM was their hot button, their top priority [...]

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MDM and Product Lifecycle Management explained – finally!

by Andrew White  |  August 7, 2009  |  2 Comments

One particular topic has plagued a lot of users for several years – what is the overlap, or intersection, between MDM, Product Data Management (PDM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).  Well, a colleague of mine (Marc Halpern) and I have just published a couple of notes on the topic.   My overview is A Look at [...]

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More on ERP and MDM – apples and oranges?

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 [...]

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