by Andrew White | April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
Like many of yuo I also received the email this morning from CIO Insight’s heralding “Huge Changes for IT”. I quickly cleared all the important emails from my inbox, then I perused the other emails for interesting things to read and explore. I clicked through the resulting 15 page presentation and found that, in general, [...]
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by Andrew White | January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
Information Management ran another story on one of my favorite overall “themes” – that there will emerge a semantic enterprise. In, “The Semantic Web: A Perfect Complement to Master Data Management”, January 11th, J. Brooker Aker calls out what, to me, is pretty obvious: “…[T]he semantic Web offers quick and precise data analysis for enterprise [...]
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 | June 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner’s SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit, London, UK I sat in a vendor presentation today on SOA. Specifically the presentation was focused on SAP and how SOA oriented was its technology stack. I asked a question of the speaker that was not pointed to SAP, but to SOA in general, and the role [...]
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Category: MDM Multienterprise SOA Semantics Tags: MDM, Multienterprise, Multienterprise BPP, SOA
by Andrew White | May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
I was on a briefing today with TopQuadrant, a small vendor focused on semantic modeling technology that I wrote up in last years Cool Vendors for MDM note, when I decided to search on Google the term “semantics MDM”. It created a long list – but was not one of the “common” searches that Google populates [...]
Category: MDM Semantics TopQuadrant Tags: MDM, Semantics, TopQuadrant
by Andrew White | April 30, 2009 | 5 Comments
I received today one of those email “flyers” advertising “semantics and the enterprise”. The link took me to a site for the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. I was intrigued about this flyer since the notion of applying or exploiting semantic web technology inside the enterprise remains elusive. Even at Gartner I was unable to excite [...]
by Andrew White | December 12, 2008 | 5 Comments
About two years ago Kathy Harris (see her blog here), a colleague of mine, and I spent some time with an idea that went nowhere. The idea we explored the issue that arises when firms segment their customers, yet customers don’t always follow predictable patterns of behavior that are implied by the suppliers segmentation of [...]
