Andrew White

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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