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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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence MDM Reference Data Reference Data Management (RDM) Tags:
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 [...]
Category: MDM Reference Data Reference Data Management (RDM) Tags: MDM, Reference Data, Reference Data Management
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 [...]
Category: MDM Reference Data Reference Data Management (RDM) Tags: symposium
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 [...]
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Category: Data Quality MDM of Product Data Oracle Product Information Management (PIM) Reference Data Semantics Silver Creek Systems Tags:
by Andrew White | July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
Seems odd, but can we talk about defining “MDM”, and maybe master data? I was pointed to that great knowledge base in the sky, Wikipedia, and its definition of MDM. The definition reads: In computing, master data management (MDM) comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities [...]
Category: Defining Master Data MDM Reference Data Tags: MDM, Reference Data
