by Andrew White | November 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
It is with a heavy heart that I have to report that my friend and colleague, John Radcliffe, will be retiring from Gartner at the end of 2012. John is to be thanked for leading the creation for what we all now call Master Data Management. I have known John for over nine years and [...]
Category: Master Data Management MDM Tags: John Radcliife, Master Data Management, MDM, MDM-Summit-NA
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 | August 4, 2011 | Comments Off
I was invigorated with the article “The True Role of MDM” today – which popped into my over full inbox (just ended 2 weeks’ vacation). The introduction, in the Information Management email, read, “The importance of master data is not just data values or quality, but the real-life concepts they represent”. I knew I was [...]
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by Andrew White | July 18, 2011 | Comments Off
My colleague, Bill O’Kane, has just published his first piece of research! Bill joined us a few months ago and becomes the newest member of our team focused on Master Data Management. He has hit the ground running with, “Evaluation Criteria for MDM Vendor Data Model Styles”. Bill had recent experience with implementing MDM technologies [...]
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Category: MDM Research Agenda Tags: MDM, Research Agenda
by Andrew White | July 15, 2011 | Comments Off
I spent 3 long days with back to back calls with users in and around Minneapolis. I knew it would be a busy week but I had no idea how it would develop. I sat on the plane coming home last night, and it was one of those surreal flights you experience from time to [...]
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Category: Enterprise Information Management (EIM) MDM Tags: EIM, MDM
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 | June 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
My colleagues at Gartner are always keen to remind me that structured data represents only about 5 to 10 per cent of an organizations information, the rest is made up of “unstructured” data. But a quick call with my colleague, Mark Beyer, will show that there is no such thing as unstructured data. For any [...]
Category: Content Management EHR Healthcare Master Content Management MDM Metadata Management Tags: Master Content Management, MDM, Metadata, Metadata Management
by Andrew White | June 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today Orchestra Networks announced the availability of their cloud-based MDM service offering, at http://smartdatagovernance.com/ The press suggested this was the worlds’ first cloud-based MDM offering. I don’t want to explore the specifics related to this one vendor, but since cloud computing is very highly hyped right now, we do get a number of inquiries from [...]
Category: Cloud MDM Open Source MDM Orchestra Networks SCM Talend Tags: Cloud-based MDM, MDM, Open Source Software MDM, Orchestra Networks, OSS MDM, Talend
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 | 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
