by Andrew White | June 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
I don’t blog about vendors often. Firstly it is a big risk since I can’t really talk about a position that is in contrast to Gartner’s stated position. Second, there is little point reiterating a previously stated position, since there is not much value in repetition. So it’s best not to worry about vendors at [...]
Category: Governance Kalido MDM Tags: Data Governance, Information Governance, Kalido, Master Data Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
My colleagues at Gartner are always keen to remind me that structured data represents only about 5 to 10 per cent of an organizations information, the rest is made up of “unstructured” data. But a quick call with my colleague, Mark Beyer, will show that there is no such thing as unstructured data. For any [...]
Category: Content Management EHR Healthcare Master Content Management MDM Metadata Management Tags: Master Content Management, MDM, Metadata, Metadata Management
by Andrew White | June 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today Orchestra Networks announced the availability of their cloud-based MDM service offering, at http://smartdatagovernance.com/ The press suggested this was the worlds’ first cloud-based MDM offering. I don’t want to explore the specifics related to this one vendor, but since cloud computing is very highly hyped right now, we do get a number of inquiries from [...]
Category: Cloud MDM Open Source MDM Orchestra Networks SCM Talend Tags: Cloud-based MDM, MDM, Open Source Software MDM, Orchestra Networks, OSS MDM, Talend
by Andrew White | June 10, 2011 | Comments Off
I spotted this short but interesting article today in Information Management, called Getting Data Right at the Source, by Don Steffen. I could not agree more with its main point. The bottom line is found in the last paragraph: “Enhancements to ERP applications should have impact analysis for downstream applications, and downstream applications should be [...]
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Category: ERP Governance MDM Tags: ERP, Governance, MDM
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 | April 29, 2011 | Comments Off
My colleagues Roxane Edjlali and Kurt Schlegel just published a note titled, “Extending MDM Principles to BI Content”. This was an interesting piece of research that highlights a logical argument, but also a warning. The argument is that mastering (ie governing for value generating re-use) important enterprise information such as master data should not be [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence MDM Reference Data Reference Data Management (RDM) Tags:
by Andrew White | April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
I commented (the other day) on an idea: use a maximized metadata model in an MDM program, tied to a minimalist master data model.” Are Hegdal commented and asked me to say more about this. What I have seen, over and over again, as I talk with more mature users who have adopted MDM is [...]
Category: Governance MDM Metadata Management Tags:
by Andrew White | March 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was talking with a chap today about their MDM program. He worked for a company that had the good fortune of aligning their MDM efforts with a large scale, enterprise wide systems overhaul. Talk about lucky! Most clients I interact with have to attempt MDM “one step at a time”. It turns out that [...]
Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Master Data MDM Metadata Management Tags:
by Andrew White | February 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
I did a joint customer call today with a colleague of mine, Ted Friedman. Ted is our main man in “data quality” world and as you can imagine, Ted does a lot of MDM related inquiries with customers since you can’t sustain MDM without the right dose of data quality. Well, we were speaking with [...]
Category: Business and IT Data Quality MDM Tags: Business and IT, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | February 11, 2011 | 4 Comments
The start of 2011 has been very busy, hence the low level of blogging! Customer inquiry levels for MDM are increasing significantly; they have been for a while now. We are in the middle of hiring a new analyst to help spread the workload which I know John and I (and the rest of the [...]
Category: Informatica MDM Tags:
