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Entries Categorized as 'Operational MDM'


New “use case” for MDM emerges with “middle-stream” MDM?

by Andrew White  |  January 21, 2011  |  2 Comments

A few years ago we observed a patter describing how technology was being used by organizations to achieve “single version of the truth” (MDM).  The pattern described a continuum of use cases – and we called the main use cases that were popular, at that time, operational MDM and analytical MDM.  Operational MDM described a [...]

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When MDM isn’t MDM? In Finance of course, well sometimes…

by Andrew White  |  March 1, 2010  |  Comments Off

I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users.  Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users.  Traditionally “Finance MDM” or [...]

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The role of analytics and analysis on master data

by Andrew White  |  December 22, 2009  |  1 Comment

There are at least three sets of requirements that exist across two use cases for MDM that, despite showing similarities, might derail how MDM is evolving.  In operational MDM users evaluate the impact on sales regions and territories of product and service sales and performance.  This “hierarchy” data links customers to locations and regions, and [...]

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The Differences, and Similarities, between Operational MDM and Analytical MDM

by Andrew White  |  November 10, 2009  |  1 Comment

We finally published a note (see The Differences, and Similarities, between Operational MDM and Analytical MDM) that tries to get the bottom of this thorny issue.  It has taken a while, but it is worth it.  This should be “the” note that nails the key questions most users have asked over the last couple of [...]

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More on Governance of Master Data

by Andrew White  |  October 2, 2009  |  2 Comments

I blogged yesterday about two of the main use-cases of MDM: operational MDM and analytical MDM.  Mark Beyer and I would “argue” if there was a way to denote the primary difference of the two, with respect to governance.  I explained that in operational MDM, governance is “active” and in analytical MDM, governance is “passive”. [...]

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The “use-cases” of MDM

by Andrew White  |  October 1, 2009  |  Comments Off

A few years ago we introduced the notion of MDM “use cases”.  After looking at hundreds of end user inquiries we spotted some patterns; some were clear and some were less.  One very clear pattern is what we called, “operational MDM”.  The common characteristics that describe this use case were (and still are): identify erroneous [...]

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Buy-side versus Sell-side MDM of Product Data – two sides of the same coin?

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 [...]

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Insightful Client Inquiry – Bringing Clarity to BI, MDM, and business rules

by Andrew White  |  September 11, 2009  |  6 Comments

I had one of those client calls today that brought into sharp focus something that had avoided such clarity.  Many of us have known that MDM and BI have a relationship; some mistakenly associate the two as if they are alternatives: I have heard some even think that MDM “needs” BI.  But, the reality is [...]

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A Week is a Long Time in Research

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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Can you “do” MDM without data quality?

by Andrew White  |  August 24, 2009  |  Comments Off

I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs.   It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson.  I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons.  I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality?  Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]

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