Andrew White

We finally published a note (see The Differences, and Similarities, between Operational MDM and Analytical MDM) that tries to get the bottom of this thorny issue.  It has taken a while, but it is worth it.  This should be “the” note that nails the key questions most users have asked over the last couple of [...]

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Watch out – the hype meter is running high on this one.
It is not often that I disagree with Information Management, and I am not sure that I really am, but I have to diverge from the views in this article, Process Data Management: Like Your Brain And Your Heart, BPM and MDM Can’t Survive Independently.  [...]

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I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL).  IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities facing SCM leaders. I will share more on this later – but there was an interesting case study by Wrigley. 
Wrigley’s Kristen Daihes, Senior [...]

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I spoke with an end user the other day that had a pretty forward looking strategy as it related to MDM, and specifically MDM of Product Data.  When we talk about MDM of Product Data, there are assumptions that we all make – and these might be different.  Is MDM of Product Data a sell-side [...]

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I had one of those client calls today that brought into sharp focus something that had avoided such clarity.  Many of us have known that MDM and BI have a relationship; some mistakenly associate the two as if they are alternatives: I have heard some even think that MDM “needs” BI.  But, the reality is [...]

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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 spent a couple of days in Montreal, Canada, where I had the pleasure of a number of end-user 1-1 meetings.  The weather was bright and sunny on Tuesday, cloudy and overcast on Wednesday morning but sunny later in the afternoon.  It was quite a lot cooler than in Atlanta, though locals said that their [...]

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I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs.   It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson.  I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons.  I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality?  Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]

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Many users recognize that information in their business is an under leveraged asset.  MDM, as we know, has provided a laser light focus on how users create and manage what had previously been mismanaged.  MDM only focuses on master data (you wouldn’t use a hammer to screw in a nail), but for many firms, and specific [...]

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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 the [...]

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