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Archives for April, 2010


What is the Focus of a “Business Analyst”?

by Michael Blechar  |  April 30, 2010  |  1 Comment

One of the frequent questions I get from Gartner customers concerns the role and focus of a “business analyst” and whether it belongs in IT or other business units. I generally find that the scope of responsibility the client is asking about spans multiple “roles” which in large organizations are filled by different job positions. [...]

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Master Data Management Summit Debrief: What’s on Everyone’s Minds?

by Michael Blechar  |  April 28, 2010  |  1 Comment

I, along with my peers who cover master data management (MDM) and related topics like business intelligence and data warehousing, are back from Gartner’s MDM Summit conference. Clearly MDM a hot topic, since the conference attendance grew significantly over last year’s event. Increasingly, organizations are coming to realize that the quality of data and its [...]

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