Andrew White

A member of the Gartner Blog Network

Andrew White header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'MDM Summit'

MDM spend remains healthy, despite economic slow down.

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Just in time for our upcoming Gartner MDM Summit (are you going?), Chad Eschinger published today a report (Market Trends: Master Data Management Exhibits Sustained Growth, 2008-2013) that explores and explains the market trends with respect to MDM.  It is a great note – one he will present in more detail at the summit.  Spend [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: MDM Market · MDM Summit

A Week is a Long Time in Research

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Well that was a fun week.  I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research.  And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Business to Business (B2B) · Cloud Computing · MDM · MDM Summit · MDM of Product Data · Multidomain MDM · Multienterprise · Operational MDM · Procurement MDM · Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) · Regulation/Compliance · SCM · SaaS

Retail and MDM

December 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

 
I sat down with a large business applications vendor that sells to retailers and manufactures yesterday, to get an update on their “multi-channel” strategy.  Multi-channel, or as we are increasingly calling it, “multicommerce”, represent the complexity in a firm that exists when that firm interacts with its customers (or partners) across multiple channels using different methods. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: MDM Summit · Multicommerce · Retail

Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 3

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Business Case · Governance · MDM Summit

Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 2

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

The second day of our MDM Summit carried on as day 1 had ended – lots of great user interaction.  Another fruitful dialog led me to think about another aspect of MDM that has not been that widely talked about, that being business rules and the management of business rules.  In a user roundtable discussion [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Business Rules · MDM Summit

Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 1

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments

 
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.
 
The [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Governance · MDM Summit