Entries Categorized as 'Product Information Management (PIM)'
by Andrew White | January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Oracle announced it acquired Silver Creek Systems, a small, independent, product data quality vendor. Many organizations that buy, make, convert, or sell products (both virtual and physical) have uniquely complex data quality issues. Silver Creek Systems had focused on this problem area. Oracle decided – at long last – to take Silver Creek off the [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM of Product Data Oracle Product Information Management (PIM) Reference Data Semantics Silver Creek Systems Tags:
by Andrew White | September 23, 2009 | 3 Comments
On September 21 2009, GS1 US announced (along with Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the Grocery Manufactures Association (GMA) a new offering called, Rapid Recall Exchange. This service, offered to retailers and their suppliers, provides for a centralized mechanism that helps automate the distribution of information related to product recalls. The initial focus is grocery [...]
Category: Global Data Synchronization (GDS) Information Exchange Product Data Management (PDM) Product Information Management (PIM) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance Tags: Global Data Synchronization (GDS), MDM of Product Data
by Andrew White | August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
One particular topic has plagued a lot of users for several years – what is the overlap, or intersection, between MDM, Product Data Management (PDM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Well, a colleague of mine (Marc Halpern) and I have just published a couple of notes on the topic. My overview is A Look at [...]
Category: Master Data Lifecycle MDM Product Data Management (PDM) Product Information Management (PIM) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Tags: MDM, PDM, PLM, Product Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management
by Andrew White | April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its MDM Product Data Offering With Oracle Product Data Quality Cleansing and Matching Server) This is not [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: Data Quality, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PIM, Product Information Management (PIM)
by Andrew White | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Yesterday I had the good fortune of attending the sales kick-off meeting for Inovis, a B2B vendor. I was invited in order to get an update on the vendor and to hear the vision for 2009 from the management team. MDM was very prominent in the vision. In fact, several of my favorite topics [...]
Category: Business to Business (B2B) Multienterprise Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: B2B, Data Synchronization, Inovis, Multienterprise
by Andrew White | January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
I was sent a link to a story in December, Winning over the MDM Chief Procurement Officer with MDM, (thanks Debbie) that I found interesting. The article is based on some vendor (Bristlecone Inc.) content (not always a bad thing), but the thing that I found most interesting was the source link referred to in [...]
Category: Customer Data Integration (CDI) IBM Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: CDI, IBM, PIM
