by Andrew White | July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Been away too long – sorry folks. Very busy here – MDM Hype Cycle work and MDM Magic Quadrant season too. Oh for a simple life. When too busy, blogging falls by the waywide. Or, as in this case, until an emotional string is pulled. Who would have thought that an innocent suggestion would become [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Tags: Analytical MDM
by Andrew White | October 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
I blogged yesterday about two of the main use-cases of MDM: operational MDM and analytical MDM. Mark Beyer and I would “argue” if there was a way to denote the primary difference of the two, with respect to governance. I explained that in operational MDM, governance is “active” and in analytical MDM, governance is “passive”. [...]
Category: Analytical MDM Governance Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Governance, Operational MDM
by Andrew White | October 1, 2009 | Comments Off
A few years ago we introduced the notion of MDM “use cases”. After looking at hundreds of end user inquiries we spotted some patterns; some were clear and some were less. One very clear pattern is what we called, “operational MDM”. The common characteristics that describe this use case were (and still are): identify erroneous [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Operational MDM
by Andrew White | August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I spied an interesting article last week in the InfoManagement blogs. It was, MDM Data Quality as a Process, by Jim Ericson. I thought it was interesting for a couple of reasons. I thought the title was hinting at a ruse: is MDM the same as data quality? Does data quality that is oriented as a [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Data Quality MDM Operational MDM Tags: Analytical MDM, Data Quality, MDM, Operational MDM
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 | March 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Well I had a busy day – even though this was day 3. I had a number of client inquiries and 1-1’s on site, and I also presented on MDM just after lunch. Then I had another client call and had to dash to the airport. Overall the event was really good. There were [...]
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Category: Analytical MDM Business Intelligence Tags: Analytical MDM, Business Intelligence
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
