by Andrew White | May 10, 2011 | Comments Off
I spotted an article today in Supermarket News with the headline, “Information on food boosts sales, panelists say”, originally sent to me in my daily FMI news update. The “panel” sat during the recent United Fresh Produce Association convention. The article goes on to explain how there is shift from getting “the product to the [...]
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Category: CPG MDM MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | October 6, 2010 | 3 Comments
Last weekend I refereed three youth soccer matches, and had a great time. I can no longer play soccer as much as I would like (broken ankle from playing men’s indoor soccer about 10 years ago) but I can referee youth soccer which is as close to playing as you can get – literally. But [...]
Category: MDM MDM Market MDM of Customer Data MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | March 10, 2010 | Comments Off
I received an interesting inquiry today that took me back to the time when I was working in industry. The question I received was: “XXXXXX currently utilizes a 5-digit internal product code field to identify product for ordering, sales, inventory, etc. Question: How do other organizations like us address their product management, i.e. unique id, [...]
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Category: Governance MDM of Product Data Tags:
by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Oracle announced it acquired Silver Creek Systems, a small, independent, product data quality vendor. Many organizations that buy, make, convert, or sell products (both virtual and physical) have uniquely complex data quality issues. Silver Creek Systems had focused on this problem area. Oracle decided – at long last – to take Silver Creek off the [...]
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Category: Data Quality MDM of Product Data Oracle Product Information Management (PIM) Reference Data Semantics Silver Creek Systems Tags:
by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
The Financial Times ran a report yesterday (January 4th) in its USA print edition that highlights how Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is planning to save money by focusing again on its famous supply chain. This time, consolidated spend is the focus for ever greater leverage over smaller numbers of suppliers; and the removal of [...]
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Category: MDM of Product Data MDM of Purhcased Part MDM of Supplier Data Wal-Mart Tags: MDM of Product Data, MDM of Purchased Part, MDM of Supplier Data, Wal-Mart
by Andrew White | September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Implementation MDM of Product Data MDM of Purhcased Part MDM of Supplier Data Operational MDM Procurement MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | September 4, 2009 | Comments Off
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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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM Summit MDM of Product Data Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SCM SaaS Tags: B2B, Cloud, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PLM, SaaS
by Andrew White | July 10, 2009 | Comments Off
I just published an updated Magic Quadrant (for 2009) for Master Data Management of Product Data. The update is quite interesting. Despite the name we don’t really cast any spells and call on the gods to create the ratings; there is a lot more science in the analysis behind the scenes. And the analysis this [...]
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Category: Defining Master Data MDM of Customer Data MDM of Product Data Tags: MDM of Customer Data, MDM of Product Data
