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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Category: Analytical MDM Governance Hierarchy Management IBM Kalido Microsoft Operational MDM Oracle Tags:
by Andrew White | February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
I received an email today from SupplyChainManagementReview that included am intriguing message, “The State of Data”. Enthused, I rapidly opened up the email. I could not read the thing on my PDA so I kept the email in my inbox to read when I had a free moment. Later I opened the email again hoping [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM SAS Dataflux Tags:
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? [...]
Category: Informatica MDM Siperian Tags: Informatica, MDM, Siperian
by Andrew White | February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
Yves de Montcheuil of Talend, an OSS vendor that just released an OSS MDM offering, commented on a post of mine, defending (quite rightly) his organizations view of their OSS MDM solution. One comment he made in his post made me think. The comment I thought about was “cost”. MDM accrues a cost to an [...]
Category: Open Source MDM Talend Tags: OSS MDM, Talend
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 22, 2009 | Comments Off
It is not in my nature to use blogs to argue of topics that require detailed exchange of information and analysis…but the following article was brought to my attention and I thought it a potentially good example of “vendor hype” even it was not directly provided by the vendor. Andy Hayler, CEO, The Information Difference, [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM MDM Microsoft Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, MDM, Microsoft, Operational MDM
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 | February 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
In my ongoing efforts that are part of the update to the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM of Product Data, I took a vendor briefing last Thursday that got me thinking about the link between MDM (the technology), and MDM (the discipline). The vendor – whose name shall remain anonymous, shared their strategy with [...]
Category: Defining Master Data Implementation MDM Vendors Tags: Applications, MDM
by Andrew White | January 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
I took a briefing from Orchestra Networks yesterday, a French based MDM vendor, that allowed me to explore again the comparison between the idea of what a best-of-breed or specialist MDM vendor can do versus a generalist MDM vendor. Of course, the answer is in how these vendor categories are defined. And once we have [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Operational MDM Orchestra Networks Tags: Analytical MDM, Operational MDM, Orchestra Networks
