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 | October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
I had a pleasurable experience while at IBM’s IOD conference last week. Whenever I see a book store at a vendor conference, I generally take time to browse through what’s on offer – just to get a feel for what the vendor is exposing to the attendees. There were lots of books on DB/2 and [...]
Category: Governance IBM MDM Master Data Lifecycle Tags: Data Governance, IBM, MDM
by Andrew White | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
It was predictable, but Kalido has upped the ante in Governance land with the recent announcement of their new Data Governance Director™. Kalido, a BI/data warehouse vendor that moved some years ago also into the MDM market, has extended its reach nicely with a new product aimed at data governance. Many so called MDM offerings [...]
Category: Governance MDM SAP Tags: Data Governance, Kalido, MDM
by Andrew White | February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments
I noted, with a wry smile, the following text in an Information Management article today, “MDM Achieving Maturity in Enterprises“, “The findings of this report mirror our own client experiences, namely that there is an uplift in MDM adoption and an acceleration in delivery timeframes,” says Jill Dyche, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. “The [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM
by Andrew White | January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments
I was on a briefing the other day with a small software vendor talking about governance. We were exploring and contrasting experiences with how users look at “governance”. A couple of my favorite angles included: Business users tend, if you are luck, to accept that they “own” process, but few accept that they do, or [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Governance, Data Quality, Governance, MDM
