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Trip Report – Day 2 at Gartner’s BI Summit

by Andrew White  |  March 10, 2009  |  1 Comment

Other than being a lovely day outside (whoever sees ‘outside’ when at a conference anyway?) this was another packed day.  It started out for me with an early ‘roundtable’ with a number of attendees.  The focus was MDM.  It turned out that only 1 of the roundtable participants had started an MDM program, and that had [...]

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World Trade goes to hell in a hand basket

by Andrew White  |  February 2, 2009  |  Comments Off

Quite astonishingly the FT reported Friday (IMF slashes 2009 growth forecasts) that global trade fell during December 2008 at an annualized rate of 40%.  That is just mind boggling – such contractions imply economy-stopping falls in demand, and supply.  However, though this looks alarming the reality is that such falls cannot establish new (low) levels [...]

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Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 3

by Andrew White  |  November 20, 2008  |  Comments Off

The highlight for me was the Gartner MDM Excellence Award, of course.  On Tuesday Asian Paints, Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, and State Street bank presented their MDM journeys to the audience.  These three speakers were the three “finalists” selected from among a group of users that had been submitted for the industry’s first Excellence Award. [...]

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Gartner’s MDM Summit, Chicago, IL. Trip Report – Day 1

by Andrew White  |  November 19, 2008  |  Comments Off

  We had a great first day!  The attendance at the event was very good indeed; the opening session was packed.  Despite the economic slow down and noticeable number of cancellations more users attended the event than last year which is testament to the importance of MDM – in touch times as well as good [...]

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