by Andrew White | September 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I had one of those inquiries with a user last week that you hate to have. The call started off well enough. The client described a business scenario that is all too common: global company, independent business units, heterogeneous environment, some ERP program, lots of CRM, a new shiny BI plan, yet realization that underpinning [...]
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Category: Change Management Governance MDM Tags: Change Management, Governance, MDM
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 | October 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Steve Mills kicked off day 2 with his usual gusto with an InfoSphere Keynote. Steve is always passionate about this turn and he lived up to expectations. He nicely highlighted insights from IBM’s recent CEO survey. The number one condition CEO’s are concerned with is “increasing complexity” in their business and environment, and the primary [...]
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Category: Big Data Governance MDM Tags: Big Data, Governance, IBM IOD, MDM
by Andrew White | October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
At IBM’s IOD event – another busy week on the road. Last week was our annual Symposium event. More on that later. IBM IOD is always a fun event. Over 10,000 folks are in Las Vegas (according to IBM) – including DBA’s, enterprise architects, master data managers, BI managers and so on. The key-notes are [...]
Category: Governance IBM Tags: Governance, IBM IOD, MDM
by Andrew White | July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
Sorry folks – been way too busy to post anything for a while. Trying to wrap-up the MDM Hype Cycle and an MDM Magic Quadrant at the same time, while supporting increases in MDM inquiries, sales calls, and travel. I can see a more “normal” time coming up end August….here’s to hoping, anyway. Here’s a blog [...]
Category: Business Applications ERP MDM Master Data Tags: Business Applications, Governance, Master Data, MDM
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 | 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 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 | 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
