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MDM needs SOA; and SOA needs MDM – do retailers get the connection?

by Andrew White  |  February 24, 2009  |  1 Comment

My colleague, Mim Burt, just published an interesting note reporting an analysis of a recent survey of retailers and their use of SOA (See Survey of Retailers’ Use of SOA: An Approach to Application Architecture, Not the Solution Itself).   The survey was conducted in Q42008 and included retailers from numerous retail segments, regionally from the [...]

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Retail and MDM

by Andrew White  |  December 2, 2008  |  3 Comments

  I sat down with a large business applications vendor that sells to retailers and manufactures yesterday, to get an update on their “multi-channel” strategy.  Multi-channel, or as we are increasingly calling it, “multicommerce”, represent the complexity in a firm that exists when that firm interacts with its customers (or partners) across multiple channels using different [...]

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Category: MDM Summit Multicommerce Retail     Tags: ,