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MDM needs SOA; and SOA needs MDM – do retailers get the connection?

by Andrew White  |  February 24, 2009  |  1 Comment

My colleague, Mim Burt, just published an interesting note reporting an analysis of a recent survey of retailers and their use of SOA (See Survey of Retailers’ Use of SOA: An Approach to Application Architecture, Not the Solution Itself).   The survey was conducted in Q42008 and included retailers from numerous retail segments, regionally from the [...]

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Making MDM Work Better

by Andrew White  |  November 7, 2008  |  Comments Off

Making MDM work   We are just wrapping up the final preparations for our upcoming Gartner MDM Summit (November 17th-19th, Chicago, IL) and John Radcliffe and I were developing some ideas related to how MDM will develop in the future.  One of the threads proving to be interesting concerns how MDM systems and other data [...]

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MDM and Semantics

by Andrew White  |  October 8, 2008  |  Comments Off

My eyes were drawn, as they usually are, to one of my emails this morning that proudly advised “semantic search gets smarter”, an eWeek article.  It turned out much less an article than an advertisement from Hakia, a semantic search vendor.  My eyes were drawn to the headline since semantics and MDM are closely connected.  [...]

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