Andrew White

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A Week is a Long Time in Research

by Andrew White  |  September 4, 2009  |  Comments Off

Well that was a fun week.  I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research.  And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]

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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM of Product Data MDM Summit Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SaaS SCM     Tags: , , , , ,

SaaS moves the process boundary, does not necessarily change the process, and can make integration of master data more complex.

by Andrew White  |  January 6, 2009  |  1 Comment

I took a fascinating briefing today from a vendor that has announced a SaaS-based Order Management offering.  I took the briefing in order to discover how the vendor had solved the problem of integrating the use of master data across the enterprise firewall; this has to be an issue for any user of SaaS-based business [...]

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Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM SaaS     Tags: , ,

New Research Published – Get Ready for Content in the Cloud

by Andrew White  |  December 15, 2008  |  Comments Off

Toby Bell, a colleague of mine at Gartner, just published a note called, Get Ready for Content in the Cloud.  The note focuses on the rapid growth likely to be seen in content and services in SaaS deployment models, which exist outside of the firewall and hence in the “cloud”.  When the word “content” is [...]

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Category: Cloud Data Integration/Synchronization SaaS     Tags: ,