by Andrew White | December 13, 2011 | Comments Off
SAP always puts on a good show. 2011 is no different. This is the best place for analyst to go to get the annual brain dump on what is SAP’s strategy and how is SAP planning to evolve in the next year. There are always many events each year – SAP Sapphire, TechEd, and so [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) SAP Tags:
by Andrew White | October 24, 2011 | Comments Off
Good showing, as usual, at IBM IOD. Seems like more and more folks are into “information on demand”. Opening key note was heavy on business content, and low on technology (good stuff). So much so, I had to wonder what tools were being used in each customer story. But toward the end Arvind Krishna came [...]
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Category: IBM IBM IOD 2011 Information Governance MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | September 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
I just spent a day with an end user organization trying to get its information governance program launched using Master Data Management as the vehicle. Despite the opportunity, despite the conditions that seem favorable for MDM, and despite the multi-stakeholder willingness to participate, getting MDM off the ground is hard work. And like with most [...]
Category: Business Case Governance Heiler Kalido MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | June 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
I don’t blog about vendors often. Firstly it is a big risk since I can’t really talk about a position that is in contrast to Gartner’s stated position. Second, there is little point reiterating a previously stated position, since there is not much value in repetition. So it’s best not to worry about vendors at [...]
Category: Governance Kalido MDM Tags: Data Governance, Information Governance, Kalido, Master Data Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today Orchestra Networks announced the availability of their cloud-based MDM service offering, at http://smartdatagovernance.com/ The press suggested this was the worlds’ first cloud-based MDM offering. I don’t want to explore the specifics related to this one vendor, but since cloud computing is very highly hyped right now, we do get a number of inquiries from [...]
Category: Cloud MDM Open Source MDM Orchestra Networks SCM Talend Tags: Cloud-based MDM, MDM, Open Source Software MDM, Orchestra Networks, OSS MDM, Talend
by Andrew White | February 11, 2011 | 4 Comments
The start of 2011 has been very busy, hence the low level of blogging! Customer inquiry levels for MDM are increasing significantly; they have been for a while now. We are in the middle of hiring a new analyst to help spread the workload which I know John and I (and the rest of the [...]
Category: Informatica MDM Tags:
by Andrew White | May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Last night I spent a good time chatting with TIBCO folks on their show floor. I asked of three product groups, all related to Business Process Management (BPM) the same question: How does a user organization realize value from a process model, designed in your toolset, given (in this example) that the IT stack is [...]
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by Andrew White | May 10, 2010 | Comments Off
TIBCO’s annual user conference was kicked off with a lot of enthusiasm and excitement in Las Vegas. In the opening session, led by Murray Rode, COO, TIBCO laid out its overall business, marketing and product strategy. I didn’t expect MDM to get too much of a headline role, and I was not disappointed. To be [...]
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by Andrew White | March 26, 2010 | Comments Off
TIBCO announced yesterday that it had acquired Netrics, a small, private vendor that deals with data quality (matching) technology. The press release stated a direct connection with Netrics value-add and TIBCO MDM, data governance and event-driven solutions. Clearly data quality is applicable to many kinds of data integration and data management routines. MDM is one such [...]
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Category: Data Quality MDM TIBCO Tags:
by Andrew White | March 1, 2010 | Comments Off
I took a tricky little inquiry today from a large industrial organization – one that is representative of many similar questions from many different users. Operational MDM denotes the emphasis of (MDM) process integrity as well as (master) data quality, “up stream” in the core business applications used by business users. Traditionally “Finance MDM” or [...]
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