Entries Categorized as 'MDM'
by Andrew White | May 23, 2013 | Submit a Comment
An end-user posed a question recently as follows: How does one manage the integrity of master data changes across different environments – e.g. development, testing and production? This user has a home-grown master data mapping (as opposed to full MDM) service, and as its footprint has driven their home-grown maintenance framework (based on database synchronization scripts [...]
Category: Information Governance Information Policy Master Data Master Data Lifecycle Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 10, 2013 | Comments Off
Its Friday, its 5 o’clock, so its must be “Crackerjack”! Well, ignoring the very British TV series from the 70′s, I was packing my laptop away for the day when this email popped into my inbox, from Techtarget, with one phrase listed: “data stewardship”. Well, that is red rag to this bull. I instantly stopped [...]
Category: Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Policy Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 10, 2013 | 1 Comment
I wrote, “The Perils and Pitfalls of Managing Master Data “inside” ERP Systems” April 24th. Unfortunately I did not get to see the comment, or get to replay, until after our self enforced time limit for comments expired. So I apologize for getting so long to back to this topic and comments. Here is my [...]
Category: Implementation Style Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 10, 2013 | Comments Off
As you may know we are into the data gathering phase in support of our research into the market segments we call, MDM of Customer Data, and MDM of Product Data. We hope to publish around September this year. Please note – vendors – the deadline for submission of all material for this phase is [...]
Category: Magic Quadrant Master Data Management MDM MDM of Customer Data MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | April 30, 2013 | Comments Off
10 days I ago I took aim a vendor webinar that, I thought, poorly represented how MDM did not include an element of information governance; as if MDM was a technology only. See Nice Webinar on MDM and Data Governance by EDWWS…but some issues. This has never been our view – so I had to [...]
Category: Gartner Hype Cycle InfoTrellis MDM Technology Hype Cycle Tags:
by Andrew White | April 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
On the one hand, Master Data Management (MDM) is everywhere. It seems wherever I travel to, someone has an MDM program, or a project (depending on their level of understanding of what MDM is). However, as I have blogged recently, it seems things are getting a little of out hand. All manner of discontinuities with [...]
Category: Application Architecture Applications Best Practices Enterprise Information Management (EIM) ERP Hype Cycle Information Architecture Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | April 17, 2013 | 4 Comments
We must be half pregnant with MDM! I see an increase in the number of inquiries with end user organizations that are making some pretty simple mistakes. But upon reflection, these mistakes are mostly due to ignorance and immaturity of the IT market. And some are due to vendors’ positions being out of line with [...]
Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Information Governance Master Data Management MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | April 16, 2013 | Comments Off
We sent out (actually my colleague Bill O’Kane did the work) emails yesterday to formally launch the research process that will lead to the publication of two Magic Quadrants later this year – MDM of Customer Data Solutions and MDM of Product Data Solutions. If you are a software vendor that operates in either domain, [...]
Category: Master Data Management MDM Hype MDM Market MDM of Customer Data MDM of Product Data MDM-Summit-NA Tags:
by Andrew White | April 3, 2013 | 3 Comments
We will soon be sending out the infamous “initial vendor communication” email that officially kicks off our data gathering cycle in support of our Magic Quadrants for MDM. Watch out! You know who you are. Looking forward to hearing all the good news.
Category: Master Data Management MDM of Customer Data MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | March 1, 2013 | 2 Comments
I had the pleasure of attending Informatica’s annual analyst event. It was a good couple of days, filled with lots of god insight and it helped me understand the Informatica strategy. There was much to look at during the event that is pleasing to the eye, and suggesting that progress is being made and success [...]
Category: Cloud Heiler Informatica Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Trust Innovation Master Data Management MDM Tags: Informatica, MDM-Summit-NA
