Andrew White

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Review of Article focused on Microsoft Strategy to address MDM Market

by Andrew White  |  June 22, 2009  |  Comments Off

It is not in my nature to use blogs to argue of topics that require detailed exchange of information and analysis…but the following article was brought to my attention and I thought it a potentially good example of “vendor hype” even it was not directly provided by the vendor.   Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference, [...]

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A tale of two MDM initiatives…

by Andrew White  |  June 19, 2009  |  1 Comment

This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations.  Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B).  Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]

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Best of Breed MDM versus Generalist MDM – which is best?

by Andrew White  |  January 29, 2009  |  4 Comments

I took a briefing from Orchestra Networks yesterday, a French based MDM vendor, that allowed me to explore again the comparison between the idea of what a best-of-breed or specialist MDM vendor can do versus a generalist MDM vendor.  Of course, the answer is in how these vendor categories are defined.  And once we have [...]

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