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Entries Tagged as '2409'

Buy-side versus Sell-side MDM of Product Data – two sides of the same coin?

September 21st, 2009 · Comments Off

I spoke with an end user the other day that had a pretty forward looking strategy as it related to MDM, and specifically MDM of Product Data.  When we talk about MDM of Product Data, there are assumptions that we all make – and these might be different.  Is MDM of Product Data a sell-side [...]

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Tags: 2409 · Analytical MDM · Implementation · MDM of Purhcased Part · MDM of Supplier Data · Operational MDM · Procurement MDM

A Week is a Long Time in Research

September 4th, 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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Tags: 2409 · Business to Business (B2B) · Cloud computing · MDM · MDM Summit · Multidomain MDM · Multienterprise · Operational MDM · Procurement MDM · Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) · Regulation/Compliance · SCM · SaaS

Another Magic Quadrant for MDM – this for product (or ‘thing) data

July 10th, 2009 · Comments Off

I just published an updated Magic Quadrant (for 2009) for Master Data Management of Product Data.  The update is quite interesting.  Despite the name we don’t really cast any spells and call on the gods to create the ratings; there is a lot more science in the analysis behind the scenes.  And the analysis this [...]

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Tags: 2409 · Defining Master Data · MDM of Customer Data