Andrew White

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When is MDM not MDM?

by Andrew White  |  April 29, 2011  |  Comments Off

My colleagues Roxane Edjlali and Kurt Schlegel just published a note titled, “Extending MDM Principles to BI Content”.  This was an interesting piece of research that highlights a logical argument, but also a warning.  The argument is that mastering (ie governing for value generating re-use) important enterprise information such as master data should not be [...]

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A lay-up I can’t resist: Reference Data Management (RDM)

by Andrew White  |  December 2, 2010  |  2 Comments

I note the increase in attention that MDM is getting in the press.  Seems like almost every day I get a PR piece from a website, marketing program or vendor that extols their own experiences of services related to MDM.  Hype seems to be on the uptick. Today I spotted the following article:  How to [...]

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MDM and Reference Data

by Andrew White  |  October 6, 2010  |  1 Comment

I stood on the steps of a Hilton hotel in Cincinnati yesterday, waiting for a cab, and I bumped into the CEO of Black Watch Data, Steve Stroud.  I had just finished presented to a group of users interested in “data governance” in specifically, MDM.  In the minute available before the cab arrived, Steve kindly [...]

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