by Andrew White | February 16, 2011 | 4 Comments
I did a joint customer call today with a colleague of mine, Ted Friedman. Ted is our main man in “data quality” world and as you can imagine, Ted does a lot of MDM related inquiries with customers since you can’t sustain MDM without the right dose of data quality. Well, we were speaking with [...]
Category: Business and IT Data Quality MDM Tags: Business and IT, Data Quality, 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
by Andrew White | October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL). IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities facing SCM leaders. I will share more on this later – but there was an interesting case study by Wrigley. Wrigley’s Kristen Daihes, [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM SCM Tags: Data Quality, MDM, SCM
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 | August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
This book (The Data Asset: How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success) arrived yesterday – and I had to read it overnight! What does that tell you about my sleeping habits? All kidding aside, I did read rather quickly Tony Fisher’s new book, sent to me by DataFlux (many thanks). I found the [...]
Category: Data Quality Governance MDM Tags: Data Quality, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week I had the pleasure of spending time with two end user organizations that helped me draw out some important considerations. Company A was very much a large, global concern who’s product is very much information rich, selling to consumer (B2C) and commercial organizations (B2B). Company B was another large, global concern, who’s product [...]
Category: Business Case Business Drivers Business Intelligence Data Quality ERP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Governance Implementation MDM Operational MDM Tags: Business Case, Business Drivers, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Governance, MDM, Organization, Process
by Andrew White | May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
I read today a good article on data quality, and specifically how to measure data quality (see How to Measure and Monitor the Quality of Master Data). Looking at the article I noted several items that relate to published Gartner material, so the content looks familiar and has some proof points and experience behind it. [...]
Category: Data Quality Tags: Data Quality
by Andrew White | April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
It is not often that I talk about vendors here – you know the trouble that can cause (!) but I had to mention that this week Oracle announced an OEM with Silver Creek Systems (see Oracle Improves Its MDM Product Data Offering With Oracle Product Data Quality Cleansing and Matching Server) This is not [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM Product Information Management (PIM) Tags: Data Quality, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PIM, Product Information Management (PIM)
by Andrew White | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Kurt Schlegal and John van Decker kicked off the Gartner BI Summit with the Key note – entitled, “Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy – How BI Can do Better (with less)”. The key take-away for me was that despite the importance IT puts on BI (it has been the top priority for IT, according to CIO [...]
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Category: Business Intelligence Data Quality Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Quality
