Andrew White

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Entries Tagged as 'Value from Information'

How do you get started with MDM?

July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Why is there no simple, automated, or formalized, blue print for getting MDM going?
I was talking with a sales person today who wanted help to initiate a dialog with a client that we knew had an MDM “issue”.  We explored several ways we could help the client with respect to MDM, and as a result of the conversation, [...]

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Tags: Business Applications · Business Drivers · Business Intelligence · Business to Business (B2B) · Cost Optimization · Data Migration · ERP · Implementation · MDM · Value from Information

“There is (information) gold in them there (data) hills”

December 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was trolling my email “inbox” this morning and I read with interest an email from a vendor I met recently at a briefing.  In November, Panjiva updated me on their business: their offering is based on knowledge gleaned from perusing all the inbound manifests for goods arriving in the US.  By analyzing the data, [...]

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Tags: Cost Optimization · SCM · Value from Information