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MDM is not an infrastructure solution…it is a business solution…

by Andrew White  |  February 9, 2010  |  8 Comments

Did you notice the slight change in messaging and positioning that Informatica is making with its acquisition of Siperian?  Siperian was focused on messaging a business solution; whereas in the latest marketing information from Informatica, the Siperian stuff is described as a “MDM infrastructure”. I think this is a talking point.  What does this signal?  [...]

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Why did Informatica purchase Siperian, rather than use Talend’s OSS MDM?

by Andrew White  |  February 1, 2010  |  4 Comments

A user asked me this question the other day and I thought it was worth posting.  Of course, there are probably a few good reasons.  The chief of which might have been that Informatica was not aware of the availability of the Open Source Software based MDM application from Talend.  But there are other conditions [...]

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More on ERP and MDM – apples and oranges?

by Andrew White  |  January 28, 2009  |  7 Comments

I received a newsletter from Hub Solution Design, an MDM services vendors, and in that newsletter was an invitation for a webinar hosted by Siperian, an MDM vendors, and Hub Solutions.  The title of the webinar was, “Top 5 Reasons Not to Master Your Data in SAP ERP”.  The invitation said that the webinar will [...]

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