by Andrew White | October 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
Wow what an exhilarating day! Awesome. A full day of 1-1s and inquiries teed off with a workshop on “How to get started with master data management”. 19 1-1’s and inquiries in two days – all on information governance and 16 focused or tied to master data and/or MDM. The workshop consisted of about 50 [...]
Category: Content Governance Gartner IT/Expo Gartner IT/Expo 2012 Information Governance Information Trust Master Data Management MDM Metadata Management Tags:
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 | 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 [...]
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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 | November 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Don’t tell Mark Beyer, but I use a lot of metadata –and I employ Metadata Management! Every one of the inquiries I do I track by tagging each one with a series of words that describe the focus of the topic. These words are “governance”, “organizations”, “business case” and so on. After a period of [...]
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Category: Metadata Management Tags: Metadata, Metadata Management
by Andrew White | April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
Despite the similarity in terms, we have not written too many notes on the topic of how metadata management and MDM intersect (or overlap). After speaking with many end users there confusion is not overly great, though once you tackle a specific question in context to a particular business decision or process or application, it [...]
Category: MDM Metadata Management Tags: MDM, Metadata Management
