by Andrew White | June 10, 2011 | Comments Off
I spotted this short but interesting article today in Information Management, called Getting Data Right at the Source, by Don Steffen. I could not agree more with its main point. The bottom line is found in the last paragraph: “Enhancements to ERP applications should have impact analysis for downstream applications, and downstream applications should be [...]
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Category: ERP Governance MDM Tags: ERP, Governance, MDM
by Andrew White | December 16, 2010 | Comments Off
I am just wrapping up a note on “Do Organizations with ERP “need” MDM?” We take many inquiries from users with large packaged application suites (some called ERP) and many such users are struggling with the MDM question. Interestingly, thought the question is simple, it turns out the answer is not as simple. It turns [...]
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by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Following on from my previous blog, I saw an article this morning that aligned nicely with it. Joe McKendrick posted, “Master Data Isn’t Available at the Turn of a Switch” on Information Management, and the title drew me to it. Too many users assume that “implementing ERP” provides for “single version of the truth”. The [...]
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Category: ERP MDM Tags: ERP, Master Data, MDM
by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I have started up my travels for the fall season already! IT seems that summer is almost over; the kids are back at school and the average temperatures are home are dropping. I have been walking my dog at 6am in 90 degrees (the cool part of the day) but the last couple of mornings [...]
Category: Application Architecture Applications ERP MDM Tags: Application Specific Data, ERP, MDM
by Andrew White | June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
Two popular questions users have these days: Should I “do” MDM before, during, or after, I “do” ERP? How do I “do” MDM with an ERP migration/implementation/rationalization? The answer to both questions actually depends, in part, on what is meant by “ERP”. Some users use the term “ERP” to describe the intention of “source all [...]
Category: ERP MDM Tags: ERP, ERP Migration, MDM
by Andrew White | June 7, 2010 | 3 Comments
I spotted Friday an article by Dan Power of Hub Design Solutions on “Why Product Information Management?” Dan nicely highlighted some of the significant areas where single view of product data can help generate value for an organization. I particularly liked the comment Dan made, with “If CRM and ERP platforms were better able to [...]
by Andrew White | April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
As a past representative of the business applications market I found this set of marketing oriented “movies”, sponsored by Kinaxis, funny. Kinaxis, a best of breed Supply Chain Management vendor, has spent a life integrating to host, legacy and large suite “ERP” packages. I remember the time myself when I had to develop “integration” messages [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: ERP, Kinaxis, Packaged Application Software
by Andrew White | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
Scoreline: MDM 2 v Business Applications 1 Over the last few weeks I have met with many end user organizations that continue to struggle with “making MDM work well with ERP” systems. And when say ERP systems, I mean “any business application”. The problem is that many, if not all, business application bring with them [...]
Category: Application Architecture ERP MDM Aware Tags: Business Applications, ERP, Governance, MDM, MDM Aware
by Andrew White | August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Sometimes even I am flabbergasted at the rate at which research get’s published Gartner. It can be a veritable fire-hose of stuff – I am sure hard for some users to keep up with. A few notes snuck out in the last couple days. Here are three of my favorite notes (and they are not [...]
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Category: ERP MDM of Asset SOA Tags: Asset MDM, ERP, MDM and SOA
by Andrew White | January 28, 2009 | 7 Comments
I received a newsletter from Hub Solution Design, an MDM services vendors, and in that newsletter was an invitation for a webinar hosted by Siperian, an MDM vendors, and Hub Solutions. The title of the webinar was, “Top 5 Reasons Not to Master Your Data in SAP ERP”. The invitation said that the webinar will [...]
Category: ERP Master Data Lifecycle MDM Siperian Tags: ERP, Hub Solutions, Master Data Lifecycle, Siperian
